Recently, IMA has been described as a useful discriminative marker to exclude pulmonary embolism, which is known to be associated with right ventriculardysfunction and myocardial ischemia.40
However, this parameter has been reported to be falsely positive, especially in patients with right ventriculardysfunction.
然而,这一参数有假阳性结果,尤其在右心室功能障碍的患者。
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Objective To investigate the relation between left ventriculardysfunction (LVD) and serum brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) levels in patients with essential hypertension (EH).