Acute and Chronic Effects of Smoking on Myocardial Function in Healthy Heavy Smokers: A Study of Doppler Flow, Doppler Tissue Velocity, and Two-Dimensional Speckle Tracking Echocardiography.

Background: The purpose of the study was to evaluate the acute and chronic effect of smoking on left ventricular function in healthy heavy smokers by conventional Doppler flow, tissue Doppler, and two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography (2 D- STE). Methods: Echocardiograms were performed i...

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Publicado en:Echocardiography Vol. 30; no. 3; pp. 285 - 293
Autores principales: Farsalinos, Konstantinos, Tsiapras, Dimitrios, Kyrzopoulos, Stamatis, Voudris, Vassilis
Formato: diagnostic images research tables/charts tracings Journal Article
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Mar2013
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