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Delayed and decreased LV untwist and unstrain rate in mutation carriers for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
European heart journal. Cardiovascular Imaging - 1 Apr 2017
Kauer Floris, van Dalen Bas M, Michels Michelle, Schinkel Arend F L, Vletter Wim B, van Slegtenhorst Marjon, Soliman Osama I I, Geleijnse Marcel L
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BACKGROUND: The echocardiographic focus to detect abnormalities in genetically hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) affected subjects without left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy (G+/LVH-) has been on diastolic abnormalities in transmitral flow and longitudinal myocardial function with tissue Doppler imaging. The aim of this study was to assess diastolic LV unstrain and untwist. METHODS AND RESULTS: Forty-one...
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