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Download fileTargeted echocardiographic screening for subclinical left ventricular dysfunction to prevent incident heart failure
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posted on 2021-05-10, 04:37 authored by Elizabeth PotterThis thesis investigates strategies to prevent heart failure - when the pumping function of the heart is inadequate and symptoms develop. I identify how to select those most at risk, the sophisticated heart ultrasound measures that indicate early disease and test whether a drug used in advanced heart failure could prevent onset of symptoms.