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Exercise Stress Echocardiography with Tissue Doppler Imaging (TDI) Detects Early Systolic Dysfunction in Beta-Thalassemia Major Patients without Cardiac Iron Overload

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate left and right myocardial performance at rest and after maximal exercise by conventional and Tissue Doppler Imaging (TDI) echocardiography. BACKGROUND: Iron Overload Cardiomyopathy (IOC) is the main cause of death in thalassemia major (TM) patients but conventional Echocardio...

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Auteurs principaux: Barbero, Umberto, Destefanis, Paola, Pozzi, Roberto, Longo, Filomena, Piga, Antonio
Format: Artigo
Langue:Inglês
Publié: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore 2012
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Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3395699/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22811786
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.4084/MJHID.2012.037
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