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Research results from Germany and Australia update Marfan syndrome knowledge

Published in Hospital Law Weekly, May 10th, 2007

New Marfan syndrome study findings recently were published by scientists in Germany and Australia.

Study 1: New investigation results, "Tissue Doppler imaging identifies myocardial dysfunction in adults with Marfan syndrome," are detailed in a study published in Clinical Cardiology. According to a study from Hamburg, Germany, "Successful prevention of aortic complications has lead to improved survival of Marfan syndrome (MFS). With increasing age, however, ventricular arrhythmia and heart failure are emerging as life-threatening manifestations of myocardial dysfunction. We sought to investigate whether echocardiography with tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) identifies...

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