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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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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |