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This article is part of the supplement: Abstracts of the 13th Annual SCMR Scientific Sessions - 2010 .

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Diastolic untwisting is altered in patients with congenital heart disease: a novel MR speckle tracking method for cine-MRI

Petra S Niemann1, Helene Houle2, Craig S Broberg1, Michael Silberbach1, Zhiwen Zhou1, Muhammad Ashraf1 and David J Sahn1

Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA

Siemens Medical Solutions, Mountain View, CA, USA

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from 13th Annual SCMR Scientific Sessions
Phoenix, AZ, USA. 21-24 January 2010

Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2010, 12(Suppl 1):P19doi:10.1186/1532-429X-12-S1-P19

Published: 21 January 2010

First paragraph (this article has no abstract)

In patients with CHD (CO, ASD, VSD and ToF) satisfactory post-op outcome is not solely dependent on systolic RV and LV function. Early signs of LV diastolic dysfunction might need to be emphasized in this patient group.


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