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Figure 6 Standard pulsed Doppler transmitral inflow (upper panels) and myocardial axial velocities (lower panels) recorded at the basal lateral wall in a healthy volunteer and in a patient with severe aortic stenosis, left ventricular hypertrophy and elevated filling pressures (pseudonormal). Early diastolic myocardial velocity (Em) is significantly reduced as well as the early-to-atrial velocity ratio (Em/Am) in the pseudonormal patient (see text for details).
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