Loss of left ventricular torsion as the predominant mechanism of left ventricular systolic dysfunction in a patient with tubercular cardiomyopathy

Echocardiography

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Bansal, Manish ^a   Mehrotra, Rahul ^a   Kasliwal, Ravi R ^a  

^a Medicity ^*  (India)

Author keywords

strain imaging; systolic function; torsion; tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DEAMINASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DYSPNEA; FEVER; FOOT DISEASE; FOOT SWELLING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEFT VENTRICULAR SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; LEFT VENTRICULAR TORSION; MALE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TORSION; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; TUBERCULAR CARDIOMYOPATHY; TUBERCULOUS OSTEOMYELITIS; WEAKNESS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

CARDIOMYOPATHIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TORSION ABNORMALITY; TUBERCULOSIS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84867403508     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2012.01768.x     Document Type: Article

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