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Left ventricular Doppler characteristics in first-degree relatives of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Angiology - 1 Jan 2000
Efthimiadis Georgios K, Parharidis Georgios E, Karvounis Haralambos I, Papadopoulos Christodoulos E, Gemitzis Konstantinos D, Styliadis Ioannis H, Karoulas Takis N, Louridas Georgios E
Abstract excerpt
Left ventricular (LV) diastolic function may be affected early in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), regardless of the phenotypic expression of the disease. The aim of the present study was to detect whether LV diastolic performance, evaluated by conventional Doppler echocardiography, is impaired in first-degree relatives of patients with phenotypically expressed HCM, who had no clinical,...
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