CMR feature tracking in cardiac asymptomatic systemic sclerosis: Clinical implications.

<h4>Background</h4>Impaired myocardial deformation has been sporadically described in cardiac asymptomatic systemic sclerosis (SSc). We aimed to study myocardial deformation indices in cardiac asymptomatic SSc patients using cardiac magnetic resonance feature tracking (CMR-FT) and correl...

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Main Authors: Konstantinos Bratis, Anthony Lindholm, Roger Hesselstrand, Håkan Arheden, Georgia Karabela, Efthymios Stavropoulos, Gikas Katsifis, Genovefa Kolovou, George D Kitas, Petros P Sfikakis, Loukia Koutsogeorgopoulou, Sophie Mavrogeni, Ellen Ostenfeld
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221021