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Strain imaging to assess early effects of successful percutaneous balloon mitral valvotomy on left atrium mechanics

BACKGROUND: Global left atrial strain (LA) has been used as a novel assessment tool to evaluate left atrial function. However, not much has been investigated to study the effect of percutaneous balloon mitral valvotomy (BMV) in patients with rheumatic severe mitral stenosis on global LA strain. We s...

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Autores principales: Sravan K Reddy, N., Ranjan Shetty, K., Sudhakar Rao, M., Sree Madhurya Reddy, M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6872685/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31754861
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s43044-019-0021-3