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†These authors contributed equally.
Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate the reservoir,
conduit, and contraction function of the left atrium and to evaluate the
predictive value of left atrial strain (LAS) on exercise tolerance in
hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) patients with an E/e’ between 8 and 14 by
two-dimensional speckle tracking using treadmill stress
echocardiography. Methods: This was a retrospective study in which we
analyzed a total of 70 patients with HCM between 2016 and 2017. According to the
resting state E/e’, patients were either assigned to an HCM-1 group (E/e’