Speckle Tracking Echocardiography and All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality Risk in Chronic Kidney Disease Patients

• Autors principals: Laura Jahn (Autor), Rafael Kramann (Autor), Nikolaus Marx (Autor), Jürgen Floege (Autor), Michael Becker (Autor), Georg Schlieper (Autor)
• Format: Llibre
• Publicat: Karger Publishers, 2019-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Matèries: article
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Background and Objectives: Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) exhibit a highly increased risk of cardiovascular (CV) morbidity and mortality. Subtle changes in left ventricular function can be detected by two-dimensional (2D) speckle tracking echocardiography (STE). This study investigated w...