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Provocation of clinically significant left ventricular outflow tract obstruction by postural change in patients with sigmoid septum

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  1. Ultrasound Examination Center, Tokushima University Hospital, Tokushima, Japan

    Yukina Hirata, Hirotsugu Yamada, Kenya Kusunose, Susumu Nishio, Yuta Torii & Masataka Sata

  2. Department of Community Medicine for Cardiology, Tokushima University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, 2-50-1 Kuramoto, Tokushima, Japan

    Hirotsugu Yamada

  3. Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Tokushima University Hospital, Tokushima, Japan

    Kenya Kusunose & Masataka Sata

  4. Department of Clinical Laboratory, Osaka Saiseikai Nakatsu Hospital, Osaka, Japan

    Yuki Horike

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Hirata, Y., Yamada, H., Kusunose, K. et al. Provocation of clinically significant left ventricular outflow tract obstruction by postural change in patients with sigmoid septum. J Echocardiogr 16, 173–174 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12574-018-0372-x

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