Interesting paper:
For those who are interested CMR and in iron overload, Dr. Seldrum and cols recently published that multiple transfused patients with normal ejection fraction and without heart failure have subclinical alterations of systolic and diastolic LV function in direct relation to the severity of cardiac iron overload. Among all parameters, left ventricular twist is affected earliest, and has the highest correlation to log (T2*), suggesting that this parameter might be used to follow systolic left ventricular function in patients with iron overload. http://jcmr-online.com/content/pdf/1532-429x-13-23.pdf (open access).
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