A new definition of left ventricular compaction/noncompaction - the new gold-standard?
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Background Abundant, abnormal myocardial trabeculae define left ventricular noncompaction (LVNC) but measurement is difficult and at least 5 techniques are described. We hypothesized that part of the reason for difficulties was that LV trabeculae were fractal in nature and beyond the simple geometry of 1 or 2 dimensional (2D) measurement. We designed and validated a new, rapid, clinically applicable method of measuring LV trabeculae based on fractal analysis.
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دوره 15 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2013