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SUBMITTER: Sung JM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4033336 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sung Junne-Ming JM Su Chi-Ting CT Chang Yu-Tzu YT Su Yu-Ru YR Tsai Wei-Chuan WC Wang Saprina P H SP Yang Chun-Shin CS Tsai Liang-Miin LM Chen Jyh-Hong JH Liu Yen-Wen YW
BioMed research international 20140507
Using a speckle-tracking echocardiography (STE), we recently demonstrated that a left ventricular (LV) global longitudinal strain (GLS) ≥ -15% and the serum cardiac troponin T (cTnT) concentration are associated with mortality in stable hemodialysis patients with preserved LV ejection fraction (LVEF). In this study, we explored the relationship between cTnT and echocardiographic parameters and evaluated whether the prognostic value provided by cTnT is independent of a GLS ≥ -15% and vice versa. ...[more]