Methods: In CARE-HF, patients with left ventricular ejection fraction ⩽35% and markers of cardiac dyssynchrony who were, in the investigators’ opinion, in New York Heart Association (NYHA) class ...
Objective: To evaluate contractile reserve (CR) determined by exercise echocardiography in predicting clinical outcome and left ventricular (LV) function in asymptomatic severe mitral regurgitation ...
14 Left ventricular (LV) systolic dysfunction was defined as an LV ejection fraction of ⩽45%. None of the patients had any contraindications for a cardiac MRI, especially renal insufficiency, which ...