American Heart Journal
Volume 163, Issue 3 , Pages 422-429, March 2012

Low-dose dobutamine test associated with interventricular dyssynchrony: A useful tool to identify cardiac resynchronization therapy responders:

Data from the LOw dose DObutamine stress-echo test in Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (LODO-CRT) phase 2 study

  • Maurizio Gasparini, MD

      Affiliations

    • IRCCS Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Rozzano, Milan, Italy
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint request: Maurizio Gasparini, MD, IRCCS Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Rozzano-Milan, Italy, Via Manzoni 56, Rozzano, Milan, Italy.
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  • Carmine Muto, MD

      Affiliations

    • Ospedale Santa Maria di Loreto Mare, Napoli, Italy
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  • Saverio Iacopino, MD

      Affiliations

    • Sant'Anna Hospital, Catanzaro, Italy
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  • Francesco Zanon, MD

      Affiliations

    • Ospedale Santa Maria della Misericordia, Rovigo, Italy
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  • Cosimo Dicandia, MD

      Affiliations

    • Anthea Hospital, Bari, Italy
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  • Giuseppe Distefano, MD

      Affiliations

    • Centro Cuore Morgagni, Pedara, Catania, Italy
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  • Stefano Favale, MD

      Affiliations

    • Policlinico di Bari, Bari, Italy
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  • Carlo Peraldo Neja, MD

      Affiliations

    • Ospedale Fatebenefratelli–San Giovanni Calibita, Rome, Italy
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  • Renato Bragato, MD

      Affiliations

    • IRCCS Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Rozzano, Milan, Italy
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  • Mario Davinelli, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Medtronic Clinical Department, Roma, Italy
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  • Lorenza Mangoni, MS

      Affiliations

    • Medtronic Clinical Department, Roma, Italy
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  • Alessandra Denaro, MS

      Affiliations

    • Medtronic Clinical Department, Roma, Italy

Received 10 August 2011; accepted 17 November 2011. published online 20 January 2012.

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 Trial Registration. ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00828360 (http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00828360?term=lodo-crt&rank=1).

PII: S0002-8703(11)00873-8

doi:10.1016/j.ahj.2011.11.015

American Heart Journal
Volume 163, Issue 3 , Pages 422-429, March 2012

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