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Echocardiographic evaluation of left ventricular function in ischemic heart disease
Sjoerd A. Mollema
Copyright © Sjoerd A. Mollema, Den Haag, The Netherlands. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without prior permission of the author.
Financial support to the costs associated with the publication of this thesis from AstraZeneca BV, Biotronik Nederland BV, Boehringer Ingelheim BV, Boston Scientific BV, Bracco Imaging Europe BV, Daiichi Sankyo Nederland BV, Eli Lilly Nederland BV, HagaZiekenhuis, Meda Pharma BV, Merck Sharp & Dohme BV, Mortara Instrument BV, Philips Healthcare Benelux, Sanofi-Aven- tis BV, Servier Nederland Farma BV, Stichting Imago, Stichting J.E. Jurriaanse, St. Jude Medical Nederland BV, Toshiba Medical Systems Nederland and Zambon Nederland BV is gratefully acknowledged.
Echocardiographic evaluation of left ventricular function in ischemic heart disease
Proefschrift
ter verkrijging van
de graad van Doctor aan de Universiteit Leiden, op gezag van Rector Magnificus prof. mr. P.F. van der Heijden,
volgens besluit van het College voor Promoties te verdedigen op donderdag 9 december 2010
klokke 16.15 uur
door
Sjoerd Adriaan Mollema
geboren te Hilversum op 5 november 1979
Dr. E.R. Holman Dr. J.D. Schuijf Dr. V. Delgado
Financial support by the Netherlands Heart Foundation for the publication of this thesis is gratefully acknowledged.
What is written without effort, will be read without pleasure.
Samuel Johnson
tablE of contEnts
Chapter 1 General introduction and outline of the thesis 9
Part 1 left ventricular function after myocardial infarction 19
Chapter 2 Prognostic value of echocardiography after acute myocardial infarction
Heart 2009;95:1732-1745
21
Chapter 3 Does left ventricular dyssynchrony immediately after acute myocar- dial infarction result in left ventricular dilatation?
Heart Rhythm 2007;4:1144-1148
55
Chapter 4 Left ventricular dyssynchrony acutely after myocardial infarction predicts left ventricular remodeling
J Am Coll Cardiol 2007;50:1532-1540
65
Chapter 5 Impact of time to reperfusion after acute myocardial infarction on myocardial damage assessed by left ventricular longitudinal strain Am J Cardiol 2009;104:480-485
83
Chapter 6 Relation between global left ventricular longitudinal strain assessed with novel automated function imaging and biplane left ventricular ejection fraction in patients with coronary artery disease
J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2008;21:1244-1250
97
Chapter 7 Time course of global left ventricular strain after acute myocardial infarction
Eur Heart J 2010;31:2006-2013
111
Chapter 8 Validation of echocardiographic two-dimensional speckle-tracking longitudinal strain imaging for viability assessment in patients with chronic ischemic left ventricular dysfunction and comparison with contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging
Am J Cardiol 2009;104:312-317
127
Chapter 9 Viability assessment with global left ventricular longitudinal strain predicts recovery of left ventricular function after acute myocardial infarction
Circ Cardiovasc Imaging 2010;3:15-23
139
Chapter 12 Left ventricular resynchronization is mandatory for response to cardiac resynchronization therapy: analysis in patients with echocar- diographic evidence of left ventricular dyssynchrony at baseline Circulation 2007;116:1440-1448
187
Chapter 13 Left ventricular longitudinal strain is related to left ventricular myocardial scar tissue assessed with contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging and predicts response to cardiac resynchroniza- tion therapy
Submitted
203
Chapter 14 Left ventricular ejection fraction as criterion for implantation of an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator in heart failure patients undergoing surgical left ventricular reconstruction
Pacing Clin Electrophysiol 2009;32:913-917
217
Summary, conclusions and future perspectives 227
Samenvatting, conclusies en toekomstperspectieven 233
List of publications 240
Dankwoord 244
Curriculum vitae 246
