Current and evolving echocardiographic techniques for the quantitative evaluation of cardiac mechanics: ASE/EAE consensus statement on methodology and indications endorsed by the Japanese Society of Echocardiography.

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Published in Eur J Echocardiogr on March 01, 2011

Authors

Victor Mor-Avi1, Roberto M Lang, Luigi P Badano, Marek Belohlavek, Nuno Miguel Cardim, Genevieve Derumeaux, Maurizio Galderisi, Thomas Marwick, Sherif F Nagueh, Partho P Sengupta, Rosa Sicari, Otto A Smiseth, Beverly Smulevitz, Masaaki Takeuchi, James D Thomas, Mani Vannan, Jens-Uwe Voigt, Jose Luis Zamorano

Author Affiliations

1: University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Associated clinical trials:

Effect of PDA Closure on the Left Ventricular Remodeling | NCT04964531

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