Left Atrial Systolic and Diastolic Dysfunction in Patients with Chronic Constrictive Pericarditis: A Study Using Speckle Tracking and Conventional Echocardiography

BACKGROUND: Left atrial (LA) function plays an important role in the maintenance of cardiac output, however, in patients with constrictive pericarditis (CP), whether pericardial restriction and adhesion can lead to LA dysfunction, and the characteristics of LA function remain unclear. The aim of the...

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Autores principales: Liu, Shuang, Ma, Chunyan, Ren, Weidong, Yang, Jun, Zhang, Yan, Li, Sha, Cheng, Yanbin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3689000/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23825701
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0068718

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3689000/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23825701
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0068718

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