The impact of ambrisentan and tadalafil upfront combination therapy on cardiac function in scleroderma associated pulmonary arterial hypertension patients: cardiac magnetic resonance feature tracking study

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of upfront combination therapy with ambrisentan and tadalafil on left ventricular (LV) and right ventricular (RV) function in patients with systemic sclerosis-associated pulmonary arterial hypertension (SSc-PAH). LV and RV peak longitudinal and circum...

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Main Authors: Takahiro Sato, Bharath Ambale-Venkatesh, Joao A.C. Lima, Stefan L. Zimmerman, Ryan J. Tedford, Tomoki Fujii, Olivia L. Hulme, Erica H. Pullins, Celia P. Corona-Villalobos, Roham T. Zamanian, Omar A. Minai, Reda E. Girgis, Kelly Chin, Rubina Khair, Rachel L. Damico, Todd M. Kolb, Stephen C. Mathai, Paul M. Hassoun
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2018-02-01
Series:Pulmonary Circulation
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2045893217748307