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Characteristics of Myocardial Postsystolic Shortening in Patients with Symptomatic Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy before and Half a Year after Alcohol Septal Ablation Assessed by Speckle Tracking Echocardiography

OBJECTIVES: Postsystolic shortening (PSS) has been proposed as a marker of myocardial dysfunction. Percutaneous transluminal septal myocardial ablation (PTSMA) is an alternative therapy for patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) that results in sustained improvements in atrial...

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Autores principales: Yuan, Jiansong, Chen, Shi, Qiao, Shubin, Duan, Fujian, Zhang, Jiafen, Wang, Hao
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4055631/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24922531
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0099014