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Detection of cardiac allograft vasculopathy by multi-layer left ventricular longitudinal strain in heart transplant recipients
Cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV) is an obliterative and diffuse type of coronaropathy that develops in the transplanted human heart, representing a major cause of graft failure and mortality. Nowadays the ...