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Speckle tracking echocardiography in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and overlapping obstructive sleep apnea

BACKGROUND: COPD and congestive heart failure represent two disease entities of growing global burden that share common etiological features. Therefore, we aimed to identify the degree of left ventricular (LV) dysfunction in COPD as a function of COPD severity stages and concurrently placed particul...

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Autores principales: Pizarro, Carmen, van Essen, Fabian, Linnhoff, Fabian, Schueler, Robert, Hammerstingl, Christoph, Nickenig, Georg, Skowasch, Dirk, Weber, Marcel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4976816/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27536094
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/COPD.S108742