Contrast echocardiography: evidence-based recommendations by European Association of Echocardiography.

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Published in Eur J Echocardiogr on March 01, 2009

Authors

Roxy Senior1, Harald Becher, Mark Monaghan, Luciano Agati, Jose Zamorano, Jean Louis Vanoverschelde, Petros Nihoyannopoulos

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Cardiology, Northwick Park Hospital, Imperial College, London, Harrow HA1 3UJ, UK. roxysenior@cardiac-research.org

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