Decreased biventricular longitudinal strain in patients with systemic sclerosis is mainly caused by pulmonary hypertension and not by systemic sclerosis per se

PURPOSE: Patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) due to systemic sclerosis (SSc) have high mortality. Left ventricular (LV) peak global longitudinal strain (GLS) is decreased in SSc. It is unknown whether low GLS is due to SSc or PAH. Therefore, our primary aim was to evaluate both LV an...

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Autores principales: Lindholm, Anthony, Hesselstrand, Roger, Rådegran, Göran, Arheden, Håkan, Ostenfeld, Ellen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019
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Original Articles
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6850088/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30597705
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cpf.12561

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6850088/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30597705
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cpf.12561

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