Left Ventricle Mass Index, a Confounding Variable of Global Longitudinal Strain to be Noticed
Dear Editor,
We read with great interest the article entitled as “Strain Analysis of Left Ventricular Function in the Association of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and Systemic Arterial Hypertension”. In this paper, the authors evaluated the global longitudinal strain (GLS) of the left ventricle (LV) in two distinct groups: patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and patients with HCM and systemic arterial hypertension (SAH) and demonstrated that GLS was lower in the second group. This important finding may indicate greater impairment of LV function in patients with SAH and HCM.
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