Left ventricular geometry and blood pressure as predictors of adverse progression of fabry cardiomyopathy

Krämer, Johannes Harald; Bijnens, Bart; Stork, Stefan; Ritter, Christian Oliver Liver; Liu, Dan; Ertl, George; Wanner, Christoph; Weidemann, Frank

doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0140627

Left ventricular geometry and blood pressure as predictors of adverse progression of fabry cardiomyopathy

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Kramer J, Bijnens B, Stork S, Ritter CO, Liu D, Ertl G, Wanner C, Weidemann F. Left ventricular geometry and blood pressure as predictors of adverse progression of fabry cardiomyopathy. PLoS ONE. 2015;10(11):e0140627. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0140627

Abstract

In spite of several research studies help to describe the heart in Fabry disease (FD), the cardiomyopathy is not entirely understood. In addition, the impact of blood pressure and alterations in geometry have not been systematically evaluated.