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Phenotyping Left Ventricular Obstruction With Postprandial Re-Test Echocardiography in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.
The American journal of cardiology - 1 Jun 2020
La Canna Giovanni, Scarfò Iside, Arendar Iryna, Alati Emanuela, Caso Ilaria, Alfieri Ottavio
Abstract excerpt
Dynamic left ventricular (LV) obstruction has important clinical and therapeutic implications in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HC). Although absent at rest, LV obstruction may be elicited using varying stressors. Meal-related hemodynamic changes may favor LV obstruction and support postprandial (PP) symptoms in HC patients. The aim of this study was to evaluate PP-LV obstruction inducibility in HC...
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