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An analysis of myocardial deformation with speckle tracking echocardiography in black patients on haemodialysis

Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of the Master of Science in Medicine, Johannesburg, 2013 / Cardiac disease is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Accurate evaluation of cardiac function is therefore important but difficult with commonly used imaging modalities such as echocardiography being subject to variable load changes in haemodialysis.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:wits/oai:wiredspace.wits.ac.za:10539/13711
Date10 February 2014
CreatorsYip, Anthony
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis
Formatapplication/pdf

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