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Prevalence and clinical significance of systolic impairment in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
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- Published on: 23 November 2015
- Published on: 23 November 2015
- Published on: 23 November 2015Systolic impairment in hypertophic cardiomyopathyShow More
Dear Editor,
In the letter by Olivetto et al. [1] the authors have highlighted two potential limitations of our study firstly that fractional shortening may not be a reliable measure of systolic function in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and that ejection fraction is better; and secondly, that the cut off value for systolic impairment (...
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None declared. - Published on: 23 November 2015Systolic impairment in HCMDear Editor,Show More
In their report, Thaman and co-workers state that left ventricular systolic impairment (SI), defined as a fractional shortening (FS)...
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