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Echocardiographic diastolic function assessment is of modest utility in patients with persistent and longstanding persistent atrial fibrillation

BACKGROUND: Detection of concurrent diastolic dysfunction (DD) may be beneficial in patients with persistent and longstanding persistent atrial fibrillation (AF). The role of transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) in assessing DD in patients with AF has not been well characterized. We sought to determ...

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Autores principales: Kohári, Mária, Okada, David R., Gaztanaga, Larraitz, Zado, Erica, Marchlinski, Francis E., Callans, David J., Han, Yuchi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5497323/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28785715
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcha.2015.10.004