Echocardiography demonstrates that in mitral regurgitation, reduced afterload can mask underlying myocardial impairment by maintaining normal fractional shortening despite left ventricular failure.
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Echocardiographic fractional shortening may mask LV impairment in mitral regurgitation; leaves open need for load-independent measures in future studies.
Ian G. McDonald (1976) studied this question.
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