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SUBMITTER: Kiatsilapanan A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7501631 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
BMC veterinary research 20200918 1
<h4>Background</h4>Left atrial (LA) function plays an important role in diastolic dysfunction in cats with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). Two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography (2D-STE) is a technique for assessing LA function. This study aimed to evaluate the LA function in HCM cats compared to normal cats, using 2D-STE.<h4>Results</h4>Seventeen client-owned cats affected with HCM and twenty healthy control cats were studied. Conventional echocardiographic and 2D-STE variables we ...[more]