Ole-A Breithardt

Department of Cardiology, Klinikum Coburg, Germany

Ole-A. Breithardt is Senior Cardiologist at the Klinikum Coburg.

His research interests include echocardiographic evaluation of heart failure with particular focus on device therapy (cardiac resynchronization therapy); the development of new automatic software solutions for quantification of cardiac dyssynchrony; and tissue Doppler imaging in hypertrophic cardiomyopathies.

Dr Breithardt is Editorial Board Member of the European Journal of Echocardiography.

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Faculty Member: Cardiovascular Disorders > Arrhythmias, Electrophysiology & Pacing (since 21 September 2007)

All recent recommendations

• 4.8
  Baseline Doppler parameters are useful predictors of chronic left ventricular reduction in size by cardiac resynchronization therapy.
  Recommended by Ole-A Breithardt, Stamatios Lerakis
  
• 8.4
  Cardiac-resynchronization therapy in heart failure with narrow QRS complexes.
  Recommended by Ole-A Breithardt, Ralph Bosch, Raimund Erbel, Panos Vardas