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  1. Progressive cardiac fibrosis is the central aspect of the myocardial involvement in systemic sclerosis (SSc). We hypothesized that circulating biomarkers of the cardiac fibrosis may be useful in the early diag...

    Authors: Vivien Vértes, Adél Porpáczy, Ágnes Nógrádi, Margit Tőkés-Füzesi, Máté Hajdu, László Czirják, András Komócsi and Réka Faludi

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2022 20:1

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  2. Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy is a myocardial disorder characterized by ventricular arrhythmias, right and/or left ventricular involvement, and fibrofatty infiltrations in the myocardium. We report a family di...

    Authors: Changsheng Ma, Jiali Fan, Bingyuan Zhou, Caiming Zhao, Xin Zhao, Bo Su, Yuzhu Miao, Yuping Liao and Li Wang

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2021 19:40

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  3. The study objective is to evaluate the effeteness of an existing educational platform blending didactic presentation and hands-on simulation for university doctoral SRNAs in the area of basic, 4 view identific...

    Authors: Jonathan Kline, Mary Golinski, Brian Selai, Jeremy Horsch and Katie Hornbaker

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2021 19:39

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  4. The aim of this systematic review was to evaluate current inter-modality agreement of noninvasive clinical intraventricular flow (IVF) assessment with 3 emerging imaging modalities: echocardiographic particle ...

    Authors: Ferit Onur Mutluer, Nikki van der Velde, Jason Voorneveld, Johan G. Bosch, Jolien W. Roos-Hesselink, Rob J. van der Geest, Alexander Hirsch and Annemien van den Bosch

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2021 19:38

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  5. The effect of right ventricular (RV) leads on tricuspid valve has been already raised concerns, especially in terms of prognostic implication. For such assessment, three-dimensional transthoracic echocardiogra...

    Authors: Hoorak Poorzand, Mohammad Tayyebi, Sara Hosseini, Alireza Heidari Bakavoli, Faeze Keihanian, Lida Jarahi and Ali Hamadanchi

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2021 19:37

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  6. Elite athletes have been the subject of great interest, but athletes at an intermediate level of physical activity have received less attention in respect to the presence of cardiac enlargement and/or hypertro...

    Authors: Jan E. Engvall, Meriam Åström Aneq, Eva Nylander, Lars Brudin and Eva Maret

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2021 19:36

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  7. We aimed to study the predictive value of early two-dimensional echocardiography (2DE) speckle tracking (ST) for left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) changes during trastuzumab treatment for HER2-positive...

    Authors: Nathalie I. Bouwer, Crista Liesting, Marcel J. M. Kofflard, Jasper J. Brugts, Marc C. J. Kock, Jos J. E. M. Kitzen, Mark-David Levin and Eric Boersma

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2021 19:35

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  8. Information is lacking concerning in-hospital echocardiography analysis of COVID-19 infection in Brazil. We evaluated echocardiographic parameters to predict a composite endpoint of mortality, pulmonary thromb...

    Authors: Marcelo Luiz Campos Vieira, Tania Regina Afonso, Alessandra Joslin Oliveira, Carolina Stangenhaus, Juliana Cardoso Dória Dantas, Lucas Arraes de França, Edgar Daminelo, Adriana Cordovil, Lara A. S. Martins, Rodrigo A. C. Meirelles, Rafael B. Piveta, Sérgio Barros-Gomes, Miguel O. D. Aguiar, Patrícia O. Roveri, Wércules A. Oliveira, Alessandro C. Lianza…

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2021 19:34

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  9. Functional tricuspid regurgitation (TR) is common among patients with left heart disease and may recur during the follow-up period after selective tricuspid valve annuloplasty (TVA). This study aims to analyse...

    Authors: Qing-long Meng, Hong Meng, Jia Tao, Shu Yang and Hao Wang

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2021 19:33

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  10. The 2016 guidelines of the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) and European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) for evaluation of left ventricular (LV) diastolic dysfunction by Doppler flow an...

    Authors: Hatice Akay Caglayan, Didrik Kjønås, Siri Malm, Henrik Schirmer and Assami Rösner

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2021 19:32

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  11. Cardiovascular complications of severe acute respiratory distress syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV2) are known to be associated with poor outcome. A small number of case series and reports have described cases...

    Authors: Oriana Belli, Maddalena Ardissino, Maurizio Bottiroli, Francesco Soriano, Calogero Blanda, Jacopo Oreglia, Michele Mondino and Antonella Moreo

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2021 19:31

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  12. Cardiac amyloidosis (CA) mimics left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH). It is treatable, but its prognosis is poor. A simple screening tool for CA would be valuable. CA is more precisely diagnosed with echocardiog...

    Authors: Yasuhisa Nakao, Makoto Saito, Katsuji Inoue, Rieko Higaki, Yuki Yokomoto, Akiyoshi Ogimoto, Moeko Suzuki, Hideo Kawakami, Go Hiasa, Hideki Okayama, Shuntaro Ikeda and Osamu Yamaguchi

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2021 19:30

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  14. Data about the right ventricular (RV) mechanics adaptation to volume overload in patients with repaired tetralogy of Fallot (rToF) are limited. Accordingly, we sought to assess the mechanics of the functional ...

    Authors: Jurate Bidviene, Denisa Muraru, Attila Kovacs, Bálint Lakatos, Egle Ereminiene, Csilla Liptai, Jolanta-Justina Vaskelyte, Remigijus Zaliunas, Elena Surkova and Luigi P. Badano

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2021 19:28

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  15. Two-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography (STE) may help detect coronary artery disease (CAD) when combined with dobutamine stress echocardiography. However, few studies have explored STE with exercise...

    Authors: Marc-André d’Entremont, Gabriel Fortin, Thao Huynh, Étienne Croteau, Paul Farand, Samuel Lemaire-Paquette, Marie-Claude Brochu, Doan Hoa Do, Serge Lepage, Warner Mbuila Mampuya, Étienne L. Couture, Michel Nguyen and Btissama Essadiqi

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2021 19:27

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  16. Essential hypertension in adults may begin in childhood. The damages to the heart and blood vessels in children with essential hypertension are hidden and difficult to detect. We noninvasively examined changes...

    Authors: Wei Liu, Cui Hou, Miao Hou, Qiu-Qin Xu, Hui Wang, Pei-Pei Gu, Ling Sun, Hai-Tao Lv and Yue-Yue Ding

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2021 19:26

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  17. Due to metabolic changes in the second trimester and the increasing number of pregnant women with obesity and advanced maternal age, the incidence of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) remains high. This stud...

    Authors: Dong Wang, Caixia Liu, Xinyu Liu, Ying Zhang and Yu Wang

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2021 19:25

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  18. The novel noninvasive pressure-strain loop (PSL) is a reliable tool that reflects myocardial work (MW). Systolic blood pressure (SBP) is the only independent factor for MW indices. However, afterload-related r...

    Authors: Qiancheng Li, Hui Wang, Haiyan Feng, Tingfan Wu, Ying Yang, Dongmei Gao and Lina Sun

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2021 19:24

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  19. In patients with repaired Fallot, subsequent surgical or interventional procedures and adverse cardiac events are frequent. We aimed to evaluate the impact of a simple pre-operative anatomic classification bas...

    Authors: Antonio Ravaglioli, Lamia Ait-Ali, Duccio Federici, Stefano Salvadori, Arketa Pllumi, Vitali Pak, Chiara Marrone, Alessandra Pizzuto, Philipp Bonhoeffer and Pierluigi Festa

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2021 19:23

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  20. Left atrial (LA) function can be impaired by the atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation and might be associated with the risk of recurrence. We sought to determine whether the post-procedural changes in LA function...

    Authors: Songnan Wen, Manasawee Indrabhinduwat, Peter A. Brady, Cristina Pislaru, Fletcher A. Miller, Naser M. Ammash, Vuyisile T. Nkomo, Ratnasari Padang, Sorin V. Pislaru and Grace Lin

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2021 19:22

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  21. Risk stratification in patients with non-ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy (NI-DCM) is essential to treatment planning. Global longitudinal strain (GLS) predicts poor prognosis in various cardiac diseases, but i...

    Authors: Ieva Kažukauskienė, Giedrė Balčiūnaitė, Vaida Baltrūnienė, Jelena Čelutkienė, Vytė Valerija Maneikienė, Sigitas Čibiras, Kęstutis Ručinskas and Virginija Grabauskienė

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2021 19:21

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  22. The purpose of this study were to identify the usefulness of screening for PFO using agitated saline echocardiography (ASE) and characteristics and prognosis of patients with suggestive of patent foramen ovale...

    Authors: Jaehuk Choi, Min-Kyung Kang, Jin-Sun Jun, Dong Geum Shin, Donghoon Han, Seonghoon Choi, Jung Rae Cho and Namho Lee

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2021 19:20

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  23. Focused cardiac ultrasound (FOCUS) can aid in evaluation and management of patients with cardiac arrest, but image quality in this population has been questioned. Our goal was to determine how often adequate i...

    Authors: Jessica R. Balderston, Alan X. You, David P. Evans, Lindsay A. Taylor and Zachary M. Gertz

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2021 19:19

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  25. We sought to explore the relationship between an index of left ventricular diastolic function parameters combined with left atrial strain and the diastolic function of patients with preserved ejection fraction.

    Authors: You Zhou, Cai-Ming Zhao, Zhen-Ya Shen, Xin Zhao and Bing-Yuan Zhou

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2021 19:17

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  26. Studies on the management of functional tricuspid regurgitation (TR) during mitral valve operations have drawn inconsistent conclusions. This study was designed to compare the treatment strategy of concomitant...

    Authors: Yue Zhong, Wenjuan Bai, Hui Wang, Hong Qian and Li Rao

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2021 19:16

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  27. Our study aimed to determine whether layer-specific strain (LSS) could reflect regional myocardial impairment in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). The study enrolled 50 patients with HCM and 30 ...

    Authors: Zhongxiu Chen, Chunmei Li, Yajiao Li, Li Rao, Xiaoling Zhang, Dan Long and Chen Li

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2021 19:15

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  28. The impact of volume overload due to aortic regurgitation (AR) on systolic and diastolic left ventricular (LV) indices and left atrial remodeling is unclear. We assessed the structural and functional effects o...

    Authors: Jonas Jenner, Ali Ilami, Johan Petrini, Per Eriksson, Anders Franco-Cereceda, Maria J. Eriksson and Kenneth Caidahl

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2021 19:14

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  29. Whether the in vitro fertilization (IVF) has an effect on the cardiac function of the fetus is very important to evaluate the safety of the technique. The aim of this paper is to establish normal reference ran...

    Authors: Shaoqi Chen, Zemin Zhuang, Qingzi Chen, Xiya Du, Weiping Li and Xuerui Tan

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2021 19:13

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  30. An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Authors: Cecilia Beatriz Bittencourt Viana Cruz, Ludhmila A. Hajjar, Fernando Bacal, Marco S. Lofrano-Alves, Márcio S. M. Lima, Maria C. Abduch, Marcelo Luiz Campos Vieira, Hsu P. Chiang, Juliana B. C. Salviano, Isabela Bispo Santos da Silva Costa, Julia Tizue Fukushima, Joao C. N. Sbano, Wilson Mathias Jr and Jeane M. Tsutsui

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2021 19:12

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    The original article was published in Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2021 19:6

  31. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the feasibility using real-time four-dimensional (RT 4D) volume imaging with electronic matrix probe to observe the morphology of atrioventricular valves in normal and ...

    Authors: Huiyu Tang, Wei Sun, Xue Sun, Yu Wang, Yu Qi, Dong Wang and Ying Zhang

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2021 19:11

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  33. This study was a quality-control study of resting and exercise Doppler echocardiography (EDE) variables measured by 19 echocardiography laboratories with proven experience participating in the RIGHT Heart Inte...

    Authors: Francesco Ferrara, Luna Gargani, Carla Contaldi, Gergely Agoston, Paola Argiento, William F. Armstrong, Francesco Bandera, Filippo Cademartiri, Rodolfo Citro, Antonio Cittadini, Rosangela Cocchia, Michele D’Alto, Antonello D’Andrea, Philipp Douschan, Stefano Ghio, Ekkehard Grünig…

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2021 19:9

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  35. Left atrial (LA) and left atrial appendage (LAA) dysfunction has been demonstrated to contribute to atrial fibrillation (AF)-related stroke. However, usefulness of LA and LAA mechanics has not been fully compa...

    Authors: Yankai Mao, Chan Yu, Yuan Yang, Mingming Ma, Yunhe Wang, Ruhong Jiang, Ran Chen, Bowen Zhao and Chenyang Jiang

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2021 19:7

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  36. Acute cellular rejection (ACR) is a major complication after heart transplantation. Endomyocardial biopsy (EMB) remains the gold standard for its diagnosis, but it has concerning complications. We evaluated th...

    Authors: Cecilia Beatriz Bittencourt Viana Cruz, Ludhmila A. Hajjar, Fernando Bacal, Marco S. Lofrano-Alves, Márcio S. M. Lima, Maria C. Abduch, Marcelo L. C. Vieira, Hsu P. Chiang, Juliana B. C. Salviano, Isabela Bispo Santos da Silva Costa, Julia Tizue Fukushima, Joao C. N. Sbano, Wilson Mathias Jr and Jeane M. Tsutsui

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2021 19:6

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    The Correction to this article has been published in Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2021 19:12

  37. It is unclear whether increased left ventricular (LV) thickness is associated with worse clinical outcomes in severe aortic stenosis (AS). The aim of this study was to determine the effect of increased LV wall...

    Authors: Kyungil Park, Tae-Ho Park, Yoon-Seong Jo, Young-Rak Cho, Jong-Sung Park, Moo-Hyun Kim and Young-Dae Kim

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2021 19:5

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  38. Left atrial (LA) enlargement and dysfunction are related to clinical course in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). We aimed to investigate genetic contribution to LA structural and functional remo...

    Authors: Hyemoon Chung, Yoonjung Kim, Chul Hwan Park, In-Soo Kim, Jong-Youn Kim, Pil-Ki Min, Young Won Yoon, Tae Hoon Kim, Byoung Kwon Lee, Bum-Kee Hong, Se-Joong Rim, Hyuck Moon Kwon, Kyung-A Lee and Eui-Young Choi

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2021 19:4

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  39. In patients undergoing left atrial appendage (LAA) closure, an accurate sizing of the LAA is key to optimize device sizing, procedural success and reduce complications. Previous studies have shown that intrapr...

    Authors: Afonso B. Freitas-Ferraz, Mathieu Bernier, Kim O’Connor, Jonathan Beaudoin, Jean Champagne, Jean-Michel Paradis, Gilles O’Hara, Guillem Muntané- Carol, Alberto Alperi, Laurent Faroux, Lucia Junquera and Josep Rodés-Cabau

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2021 19:3

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  40. Infective endocarditis (IE) is a lethal disease that is difficult to diagnosis early. Although echocardiography is one of the most widely used diagnostic technique, it has limited sensitivity. This study surve...

    Authors: Zuning Ren, Jian Zhang, Hongjie Chen, Xichao Mo, Shaohang Cai and Jie Peng

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2021 19:2

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  41. Aortic valve stenosis (AS) is the most common primary valvular heart disease leading to surgical or percutaneous aortic valve replacement (AVR) in Europe and its prevalence keeps growing. While other risk fact...

    Authors: João Ferreira, Valdirene Gonçalves, Patrícia Marques-Alves, Rui Martins, Sílvia Monteiro, Rogério Teixeira and Lino Gonçalves

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2021 19:1

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  42. Diastolic dysfunction can be caused by hypertension or diabetes mellitus, and it is also often found with increasing age. In a given patient, the cause of diastolic dysfunction is therefore not always obvious....

    Authors: Martin G. Sundqvist, Anders Sahlén, Zee Pin Ding and Martin Ugander

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2020 18:46

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  43. The health of athletes has been recognized as a worldwide public concern with more reported sudden cardiac deaths (SCD). Therefore, early detection of abnormal heart function in athletes can help reduce the ri...

    Authors: Pengge Li, Yonggao Zhang, Lijin Li, Yingchun Chen, Zhen Li, Songyan Liu and Shaohua Hua

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2020 18:45

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  44. With an increasing clinical importance of the treatment of the heart failure (HF) with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), it is important to be certain of the diagnosis of HF. We investigated global and regi...

    Authors: Hyung Yoon Kim, Sung-Ji Park, Sang-Chol Lee, Shin Yi Chang, Eun-Kyoung Kim, Sung-A Chang, Jin-Oh Choi, Seung Woo Park, Sung-Mok Kim, Yeon Hyeon Choe and Jae K. Oh

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2020 18:44

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  45. A history of previous cardiac disease increases the maternal mortality risk by as much as 100%. There is no consensus on the absolute contraindications to vaginal delivery in valvular heart disease, but centra...

    Authors: Lorenza Driul, Francesco Meroi, Alessia Sala, Silvia Delrio, Daisy Pavoni, Federico Barbariol, Ambrogio Londero, Teresa Dogareschi, Alessandra Spasiano, Luigi Vetrugno and Tiziana Bove

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2020 18:43

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  46. The American Society for Echocardiography/European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (ASE/EACVI) 2016 guidelines for assessment of diastolic dysfunction (DD) are based primarily on the effects of diastolic...

    Authors: Ythan H. Goldberg, David Megyessi, Mischa Flam, Daniel M. Spevack, Martin G. Sundqvist and Martin Ugander

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2020 18:42

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  47. The quantification of tricuspid regurgitation(TR) using three-dimensional(3D) proximal isovelocity surface area (PISA) derived effective regurgitant orifice area (EROA) is feasible in functional TR. The aim of...

    Authors: Beiqi Chen, Yu Liu, Wuxu Zuo, Quan Li, Dehong Kong, Cuizhen Pan, Lili Dong, Xianhong Shu and Junbo Ge

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2020 18:41

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  48. Shear waves are generated by the closure of the heart valves. Significant differences in shear wave velocity have been found recently between normal myocardium and disease models of diffusely increased muscle sti...

    Authors: Mihai Strachinaru, Johan G. Bosch, Arend F. L. Schinkel, Michelle Michels, Lida Feyz, Nico de Jong, Marcel L. Geleijnse and Hendrik J. Vos

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2020 18:40

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  49. Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), defined by the left ventricular mass index (LVMI), is highly prevalent in hemodialysis patients and a strong independent predictor of cardiovascular events. Compared to card...

    Authors: Sören Jendrik Grebe, Uwe Malzahn, Julian Donhauser, Dan Liu, Christoph Wanner, Vera Krane and Fabian Hammer

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2020 18:39

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  50. Strain Rate Imaging (SRI) is one of the most used techniques to study left atrial (LA) and diastolic function. Its availability in low-income countries is diminished since it requires additional expensive soft...

    Authors: Laura V. Argento, Carolina M. Travetto, Maria de las M. Colicigno, Gerardo Marambio, Silvia Gentile, Ana Salvati, Jorge Lax and Tomás Cianciulli

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2020 18:38

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