Increase in left ventricular torsion-to-
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Tammo Delhaas; Jiska Kotte; Annet van der Toorn; Gabriël Snoep; Frits W. Prinzen
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Article
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2003
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Perfusion of left ventricular (LV) subendocardium in valvular aortic stenosis (AS) patients is impaired. It was expected that this may lead to a reduction of subendocardial fiber contraction and, consequently, to an increase of LV torsion per amount of ejection. Using MR tagging (MRT),