Late post-repair ventricular function in patients with origin of the left main coronary artery from the pulmonary
Giovanni Di Salvo1, Benedicte Eyskens, Piet Claus
1Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium.
The American Journal of Cardiology
|February 19, 2004
Abstract:
This study investigated ventricular function in postoperative patients with abnormal origin of the the left main coronary artery from the pulmonary trunk using ultrasound-based deformation imaging. Although radial left ventricular deformation parameters were completely normalized, longitudinal deformation remained abnormal.
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