Assessment of cardiovascular physiology using dobutamine stress cardiovascular magnetic resonance reveals impaired contractile reserve in patients with cirrhotic cardiomyopathy

BACKGROUND: Liver cirrhosis has been shown to affect cardiac performance. However cardiac dysfunction may only be revealed under stress conditions. The value of non-invasive stress tests in diagnosing cirrhotic cardiomyopathy is unclear. We sought to investigate the response to pharmacological stimu...

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Autores principales: Sampaio, Francisco, Lamata, Pablo, Bettencourt, Nuno, Alt, Sophie Charlotte, Ferreira, Nuno, Kowallick, Johannes Tammo, Pimenta, Joana, Kutty, Shelby, Fraga, José, Steinmetz, Michael, Bettencourt, Paulo, Gama, Vasco, Schuster, Andreas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4506630/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26187817
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12968-015-0157-6

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