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Left ventricular function, morphology, and myocardial tissue characterization in Sickle Cell Disease: a multi-modality imaging study

2011; BioMed Central; Volume: 13; Issue: S1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1186/1532-429x-13-s1-p334

ISSN

1532-429X

Autores

Ahmad Homaa, Ankit A. Desai, Roberto M. Lang, Thejasvi Thiruvoipati, Kristen M. Turner, Lynn Weinert, Ernest Jamison, Nicole Artz, Sharon Trevino, Sharon Feehan, Roberto F. Machado, Joe G. N. Garcia, Amit R. Patel,

Tópico(s)

MRI in cancer diagnosis

Resumo

Our aim was to characterize the cardiac morphology, function and myocardium in patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) using CMR and transthoracic echocardiography (TTE).

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