Assessment of regional and global myocardial systolic function by 2D longitudinal speckle tracking in children with beta thalassemia major
Background: Thalassemias constitute a group of chronic, inherited anemias that are transfusion dependent. Cardiac disease as a result of transfusional iron overload remains as the principal cause of death in these patients even though there have been lots of improvements in iron chelation therapy du...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2017-01-01
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| Series: | Journal of Clinical and Preventive Cardiology |
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| Online Access: | http://www.jcpconline.org/article.asp?issn=2250-3528;year=2017;volume=6;issue=4;spage=137;epage=141;aulast=Narayana |