Assessment of regional and global myocardial systolic function by 2D longitudinal speckle tracking in children with beta thalassemia major

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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Main Authors: Ganesh Narayana, Ganavi Ramagopal, Nita R Sutay, Bhanu Duggal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2017-01-01
Series:Journal of Clinical and Preventive Cardiology
Subjects:
Cardiac failure
echocardiography
left ventricular dysfunction
thalassemia major
Online Access:http://www.jcpconline.org/article.asp?issn=2250-3528;year=2017;volume=6;issue=4;spage=137;epage=141;aulast=Narayana

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