“Hearts that strain”: Distinguishing athlete's heart from hypertensive disease in the echo lab and beyond
Individuals with hypertension that engage in regular exercise comprise a special patient group that needs a careful approach to differentiate hypertensive cardiac damage from physiologic cardiac adaptations. Echocardiography is the diagnostic modality of choice in such cases. Hypertensive left ventr...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2018-05-01
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Series: | Hellenic Journal of Cardiology |
Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1109966618302501 |