Cardiology

Researchers from Charite University report details of new studies and findings in the area of cardiology

Published in Pharma Law Weekly, December 8th, 2009

According to recent research from Berlin, Germany, "Established methods to determine asynchrony suffer from high intra-and interobserver variability and failed to improve patient selection for cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). Thus, there is a need for easy and robust approaches to reliably assess cardiac asynchrony."

"We performed echocardiography in 100 healthy subjects and 33 patients with left bundle branch block (LBBB). To detect intraventricular asynchrony, we combined two established methods, i.e., tissue synchronization imaging (TSI) and tissue Doppler imaging (TDI). The time intervals from the onset of aortic valve opening (AVO) to the peak systolic...

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Source: Pharma Law Weekly (2009-12-08)

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