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Left Atrial Fractional Shortening: A Simple and Practical “Strain” for Everyone

BACKGROUND: The function of the left atrium (LA) is reduced in many cardiac diseases even with normal size. The assessment of its compliance could represent an added value in an echocardiographic report in case the gold standard technique (speckle-tracking echocardiography [STE]) is not available. W...

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Autores principales: Mandoli, Giulia Elena, Cameli, Matteo, Lisi, Edoardo, Minardi, Simona, Capone, Valentina, Pastore, Maria Concetta, Mondillo, Sergio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6657461/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31392119
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jcecho.jcecho_74_18