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Strain Echocardiography in Early Detection of Doxorubicin-Induced Left Ventricular Dysfunction in Children with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Objective. To investigate the ability of two-dimensional longitudinal strain echocardiography (2DST), to detect the early doxorubicin cardiotoxicity. Patients and Methods. The study included 25 children with newly diagnosed acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) aged 5–15 years and 30 healthy control ch...

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Autores principales: Al-Biltagi, Mohammed, Abd Rab Elrasoul Tolba, Osama, El-Shanshory, Mohammed Ramadan, Abd El-Aziz El-Shitany, Nagla, El-Sayed El-Hawary, Eslam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: International Scholarly Research Network 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3302013/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22518327
http://dx.doi.org/10.5402/2012/870549