Functional mitral regurgitation in non-ischaemic dilated cardiomyopathy patients: importance of papillary muscle dyssynchrony | Zendy

Fernando CabreraBueno | Zendy; M. J. Molina-Mora | Zendy; Javier Alzueta | Zendy

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Functional mitral regurgitation in non-ischaemic dilated cardiomyopathy patients: importance of papillary muscle dyssynchrony

Author(s) -

Fernando CabreraBueno,

M. J. Molina-Mora,

Javier Alzueta

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

european journal of echocardiography

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1525-2167

pISSN - 1532-2114

DOI - 10.1093/ejechocard/jeq075

Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , functional mitral regurgitation , dilated cardiomyopathy , papillary muscle , mitral regurgitation , ventricular dyssynchrony , speckle tracking echocardiography , population , heart failure , ejection fraction , cardiac resynchronization therapy , environmental health

We read with great interest the article by Tigen et al. 1 recently published in this journal.The authors report systolic papillary dyssynchrony assessed by 2-D longitudinal speckle tracking as the only independent predictor of significant functional mitral regurgitation in a population of non-ischaemic …

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