Effect of aging on left atrial compliance and electromechanical properties in subjects without structural heart disease

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• who: Rachid Abou MD from the A total of , patients who were clinically referred for cardiac evaluation and transthoracic echocardiography at the Leiden University Medical Center (The Netherlands) without structural heart disease were evaluated retrospectively [10, ]Referral reasons included evaluation of dyspnea, chest pain, screening preceding noncardiac intervention, palpitations, and evaluation of patients with high cardiovascular risk profile. Subjects with previous cardiac intervention, known history of coronary artery disease, pacemaker implantation, documented cardiac arrhythmias, LV wall motion abnormalities at rest, and any grade of valvular stenosis or more than mild valvular regurgitation were excluded. Therefore, only patients . . .
  

   

  

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