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Characterisation of interrelations among myocardial work parameters in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy:

Viktória Nagy1, Gergely Rácz1, Krisztina Boda2

  • 1Division of Non-Invasive Cardiology, Cardiology Centre, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary.

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
|February 27, 2026
PubMed
Abstract

Keywords:
advanced echocardiographyglobal longitudinal strain (GLS)hypertrophic cardiomyopathyleft ventricular outflow tract obstructionmyocardial work

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