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  1. Carcinoid heart disease (CHD) caused by neuroendocrine tumours (NET) is associated with an increased morbidity and mortality due to valvular dysfunction and right sided heart failure. The present study aimed t...

    Authors: Isabel Mattig, Maximilian Richard Franke, Rene Pschowski, Anna Brand, Karl Stangl, Fabian Knebel and Henryk Dreger
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2023 21:18
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  2. Accurate sizing of the tricuspid valve annulus is essential for determining the optimal timing of tricuspid valve (TV) intervention. Two-dimensional (2D) echocardiography has limitations for comprehensive TV a...

    Authors: Gintarė Bieliauskienė, Ieva Kažukauskienė, Rita Kramena, Aleksejus Zorinas, Antanas Mainelis and Diana Zakarkaitė
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2023 21:17
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  3. Although indexing effective orifice area (EOA) by body surface area (BSA) is recommended, this method has several disadvantages, since it corrects by acquired fatty tissue. Our aim was to analyze the value of ...

    Authors: Sergio Gamaza-Chulián, Fátima González-Testón, Enrique Díaz-Retamino, Francisco M. Zafra-Cobo and Eva González-Caballero
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2023 21:16
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  4. In addition to proatherogenic properties, lipoprotein (a) (Lp(a)) has also pro-inflammatory, antifibrinolytic and prothrombogenic features. The aim of the current study was to identify the predictors of functi...

    Authors: Andreja Rehberger Likozar and Miran Šebeštjen
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2023 21:15
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  5. Increased collagen content of the myocardium modifies tissue reflectivity and integrated backscatter (IBS) indexes are suggested as markers of myocardial fibrosis (MF). We sought to assess the correlation betw...

    Authors: Maria Rita Lima, João Abecasis, Rita Reis Santos, Sérgio Maltês, Pedro Lopes, António Ferreira, Regina Ribeiras, Maria João Andrade, Miguel Abecasis, Victor Gil, Sância Ramos and Nuno Cardim
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2023 21:14
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  6. One of the most helpful aspects of intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) implementation in electrophysiological studies (EPS) is the real-time visualisation of catheters and cardiac structures. In this prospecti...

    Authors: Blerim Luani, Maksim Basho, Ammar Ismail, Thomas Rauwolf, Sven Kaese, Ndricim Tobli, Alexander Samol, Katharina Pankraz, Alexander Schmeisser, Marcus Wiemer, Rüdiger C. Braun-Dullaeus and Conrad Genz
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2023 21:13
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  7. Conventional approach to myocardial strain analysis relies on a software designed for the left ventricle (LV) which is complex and time-consuming and is not specific for right ventricular (RV) and left atrial ...

    Authors: Gui-juan Peng, Shu-yu Luo, Xiao-fang Zhong, Xiao-xuan Lin, Ying-qi Zheng, Jin-feng Xu, Ying-ying Liu and Li-xin Chen
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2023 21:12
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  8. Myocardial work acquired by echocardiography has emerged as a novel method to evaluate myocardial function. We investigated global and segmental myocardial work in hypertension (HT) among patients with differe...

    Authors: Huimei Huang, Liyun Fu, Qinyun Ruan, Ziling You and Lei Yan
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2023 21:11
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  9. Noninvasive right ventricular (RV) myocardial work (RVMW) determined by echocardiography is a novel indicator used to estimate RV systolic function. To date, the feasibility of using RVMW has not been verified...

    Authors: Jian Wu, Xinyi Huang, Weibin Chen, Yiruo Tang, Xu Chen, Xinyu Wang, Bo Jing, Yuanyuan Sun, Kunhui Huang, Qiumei Gao, Xueming Liu and Maolong Su
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2023 21:10
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  10. Chronic mitral regurgitation promotes left atrial (LA) remodeling. However, the significance of LA dysfunction in the setting of ventricular functional mitral regurgitation (FMR) has not been fully investigate...

    Authors: Daniel A. Gomes, Pedro M. Lopes, Pedro Freitas, Francisco Albuquerque, Carla Reis, Sara Guerreiro, João Abecasis, Marisa Trabulo, António M. Ferreira, Jorge Ferreira, Regina Ribeiras, Miguel Mendes and Maria J. Andrade
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2023 21:9
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  11. The pathophysiological effects of chronic right ventricular pacing and the role of right ventricular lead position are not well understood. Therefore, we investigated the association between left ventricular c...

    Authors: Patricia Zerlang Fruelund, Anders Sommer, Søren Lundbye-Christensen, Claus Graff, Peter Søgaard, Sam Riahi and Tomas Zaremba
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2023 21:8
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  12. Left ventricular global longitudinal strain (GLS) obtained from two-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography (2D-STE) can reflect cancer therapy-related cardiac dysfunction in breast cancer (BC) patients,...

    Authors: Shichu Liang, Mei Liu, Zhiyue Liu, Xiaorong Zhong, Yupei Qin, Ting Liang, Xi Wang, Zhuoqin Tang, Qian Li and He Huang
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2023 21:7
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  13. Anatomical characteristics of the left atrium and the pulmonary veins (PVs) may be relevant to the success rate of cryoballoon (CB)-ablation for atrial fibrillation (AF). Cardiac computed tomography (CCT) is c...

    Authors: Laszlo Tibor Nagy, Csaba Jenei, Timea Bianka Papp, Reka Urbancsek, Rudolf Kolozsvari, Agnes Racz, Arnold Peter Raduly, Richard Veisz and Zoltan Csanadi
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2023 21:6
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  14. Aorto-ventricular tunnel (AVT) is an abnormal communication channel between the ascending aorta and the ventricle. It commonly has two orifices, i.e., one aortic opening and one ventricular opening. In this st...

    Authors: Canying Yang, Juesheng Yang, Xiaoning Huang and Jiwei Wang
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2023 21:5
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  15. Intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) provides accurate left atrial (LA) anatomical information in the procedure of atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation but lacks LA functional assessment. LA reservoir strain (LASr...

    Authors: Jingru Lin, Yuqi Cai, Xu Meng, Shangyu Liu, Fengyang Wang, Limin Liu, Zhenhui Zhu, Mengyi Liu, Ligang Ding, Weichun Wu, Hao Wang and Yan Yao
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2023 21:4
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  16. Infective endocarditis (IE) is a serious condition that requires prompt diagnosis and treatment. Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) is usually the initial imaging modality, however transoesophageal echocardi...

    Authors: Anna Damlin, Maria J. Eriksson and Eva Maret
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2023 21:3
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  17. Left ventricular (LV) myocardial work index (WI) and work efficiency (WE) have become the latest indicators for assessing LV function. Reference ranges for normal LV segmental WI and WE have not been established.

    Authors: Jian Wu, Xinyi Huang, Kunhui Huang, Yiruo Tang, Qiumei Gao, Xu Chen, Bo Jing, Xinyu Wang, Biqin Lin and Maolong Su
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2023 21:2
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  18. Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is a useful diagnostic tool for non-invasive assessment of critically ill patients. Mortality of elderly patients with COVID-19 pneumonia is high and there is still scarcity of...

    Authors: Marko Kurnik, Helena Božič, Anže Vindišar, Petra Kolar and Matej Podbregar
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2023 21:1
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  19. Venous thromboembolism represents the third most frequent acute cardiovascular syndrome worldwide. Its clinical manifestations are deep vein thrombosis and/or pulmonary embolism. Despite a considerable mortali...

    Authors: Antonio Rizza, Francesco Negro, Tommaso Gasbarri, Roberto Arpesani, Baldassare Ferro, Paolo Roncucci, Cataldo Palmieri, Simone Sorbo, Emilio Maria Pasanisi, Marco Solinas and Sergio Berti
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2022 20:28
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  20. The left atrium (LA) is closely related to left ventricular diastolic function. Two-dimensional speckle tracking strain and strain rate (SR) imaging has been applied in the study of LA function. We intended to...

    Authors: Lin Liu, Baowei Zhang, Ying Yang, Litong Qi, Shuo Wang, Lei Meng, Wei Ma and Yong Huo
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2022 20:27
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  21. No studies have demonstrated medium- or long-term skill retention of cardiac point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) curriculum for medical student. Based on the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) curriculum ...

    Authors: Satoshi Jujo, Brandan I. Sakka, Jannet J. Lee-Jayaram, Akihisa Kataoka, Masaki Izumo, Kenya Kusunose, Atsushi Nakahira, Sayaka Oikawa, Yuki Kataoka and Benjamin W. Berg
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2022 20:26
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  22. Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a multisystem, autoimmune disease with potential cardiovascular involvement. Layer-specific strain (LSS) analysis is a new method that allows early detection of subtle lef...

    Authors: Hebin Zhang, Cunxin Yang, Feng Gao, Shanting Hu and Hui Ma
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2022 20:25
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  23. The American College of Cardiology Core Cardiovascular Training Statement (COCATS) defined echocardiography core competencies and set the minimum recommend number of echocardiograms to perform (150) and interp...

    Authors: Matthew J. Bierowski, Umer Qureshi, Shayann Ramedani, Simran Grewal, Ravi Shah, Robert Park and Brandon R. Peterson
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2022 20:24
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  24. Perfusion defects during stress can occur in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) from either structural or functional abnormalities of the coronary microcirculation. In this study, vasodilator stress myocardial ...

    Authors: Paola Roldan, Sriram Ravi, James Hodovan, J. Todd Belcik, Stephen B. Heitner, Ahmad Masri and Jonathan R. Lindner
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2022 20:23
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  25. Although cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) is the most reliable tool for assessment of CIO in patients with thalassemia, it is not always readily available. Recent studies have explored the potential of GLS as ...

    Authors: Armin Attar, Alireza Hosseinpour, Hamidreza Hosseinpour, Nahid Rezaeian, Firoozeh Abtahi, Fereshte Mehdizadeh, Mozhgan Parsaee, Nehzat Akiash, Mohaddeseh Behjati, Antonella Meloni and Alessia Pepe
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2022 20:22
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  26. Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) may increase the risk of cardiovascular disease and accompany asymptomatic deterioration of the myocardial function. This study aims to identify the subclinical impact of GD...

    Authors: Wei Li, Ziyao Li, Wei Liu, Peng Zhao, Guoying Che, Xudong Wang, Zhixin Di, Jiawei Tian, Litao Sun and Zhenzhen Wang
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2022 20:21
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  27. Recognition of congestion and hypoperfusion in patients with chronic left ventricular dysfunction (LVD) has therapeutic and prognostic implications. In the present study we hypothesized that a multiparameter e...

    Authors: Odd Bech-Hanssen, Martin Fredholm, Marco Astengo, Sven-Erik Bartfay, Entela Bollano, Göran Dellgren, Kristjan Karason and Sven-Erik Ricksten
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2022 20:20
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  29. Transvalvular pressure drops are assessed using Doppler echocardiography for the diagnosis of heart valve disease. However, this method is highly user-dependent and may overestimate transvalvular pressure drop...

    Authors: Cameron Dockerill, Harminder Gill, Joao Filipe Fernandes, Amanda Q. X. Nio, Ronak Rajani and Pablo Lamata
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2022 20:18
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  30. Pre-(PRE) and post-ejection (POE) velocities by mitral annular tissue Doppler (TD) are biphasic and may be related to myocardial deformations. We investigated the predominance and concordance of TD-PRE and POE...

    Authors: Alaa Mabrouk Salem Omar, Diana Maria Ronderos Botero, Javier Arreaza Caraballo, Ga Hee Kim, Yeraz Khachatoorian, Jaclyn Kliewer, Mohamed Ahmed Abdel Rahman, Osama Rifaie, Jonathan N. Bella, Edgar Argulian and Johanna Contreras
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2022 20:17
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  31. Parachute mitral valve (PMV) is a common form of congenital mitral stenosis and is difficult to diagnose prenatally. This report describes a fetal case of PMV with coarctation of the aorta that was diagnosed a...

    Authors: Xiaohui Dai, Jiao Chen, Hanmin Liu, Lin Wu and Fumin Zhao
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2022 20:16
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  32. This study aimed to examine the clinical value of high-definition (HD) flow render mode and spatiotemporal image correlation (STIC) to diagnose anomalous left brachiocephalic vein (LBCV) courses in fetuses.

    Authors: Tian-gang Li, Bin Ma and Ping-an Qi
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2022 20:15
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  33. PRKAG2 syndrome is a rare disease characterized as left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), ventricular preexcitation syndrome, and sudden cardiac death. Its natural course, treatment, and prognosis were significan...

    Authors: Lu Tang, Xuejie Li, Nianwei Zhou, Yingying Jiang, Cuizhen Pan and Xianhong Shu
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2022 20:14
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  34. Three dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography (3D STE) is a novel technique combining 3D echocardiography and speckle tracking analysis. 3D STE software dedicated to the left atrium (LA) was recently ava...

    Authors: Lilian Bao, Lei Cheng, Xiufang Gao, Fangying Yan, Huihua Fan, Ying Shan, Yong Li, Haiming Shi, Guoqian Huang and Liwen Bao
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2022 20:13
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  36. Echo-Particle Image Velocimetry (echoPIV) tracks speckle patterns from ultrasound contrast agent(UCA), being less angle-sensitive than colour Doppler. High frame rate (HFR) echoPIV enables tracking of high veloc...

    Authors: Mihai Strachinaru, Jason Voorneveld, Lana B. H. Keijzer, Daniel J. Bowen, Ferit O. Mutluer, Folkert ten Cate, Nico de Jong, Hendrik J. Vos, Johan G. Bosch and Annemien E. van den Bosch
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2022 20:11
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  37. The aim of this study was to detect possible differences in reversible cardiac remodeling occurring in sport training and twin pregnancy. Background: cardiac remodeling occurs in athletes and pregnant women du...

    Authors: Loira Toncelli, Lucia Pasquini, Giulia Masini, Melissa Orlandi, Gabriele Paci, Federico Mecacci, Gianni Pedrizzetti and Giorgio Galanti
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2022 20:10
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  38. Immune-inflammatory myocardial disease contributes to multiple chronic cardiac processes, but access to non-invasive screening is limited. We have previously developed a method of echocardiographic texture ana...

    Authors: Alan C. Kwan, Gerran Salto, Trevor-Trung Nguyen, Elizabeth H. Kim, Eric Luong, Pranoti Hiremath, David Ouyang, Joseph E. Ebinger, Debiao Li, Daniel S. Berman, Michelle M. Kittleson, Jon A. Kobashigawa, Jignesh K. Patel and Susan Cheng
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2022 20:9
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  39. In order to assess left atrial contractile function in disturbed circulatory conditions, it is necessary to have a clear understanding of how it behaves in a normal resting state with changes in loading condit...

    Authors: Peter Gottfridsson, Roman A’Roch, Per Lindqvist, Lucy Law, Tomi Myrberg, Magnus Hultin, Alexander A’Roch and Michael Haney
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2022 20:8
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  41. Septic shock is a severe form of sepsis marked by hypotension with an ominous outcome despite the introduction of modern intensive care. The aim of the present study is to obtain a panel with biomarkers, echoc...

    Authors: Oriana E. Belli, Jonica Campolo, Paola Vallerio, Francesco Musca, Antonella Moreo, Alessandro Maloberti, Marina Parolini, Luca Bonacchini, Gianpaola Monti, Andrea De Gasperi, Roberto Fumagalli and Cristina Giannattasio
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2022 20:6
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  42. Renal transplantation (RT) has been demonstrated to improve left ventricular systolic function. However, only few studies have attempted to reveal the effects of transplantation on left atrial (LA) function. I...

    Authors: Ufuk Yildirim, Murat Akcay, Metin Coksevim, Ercan Turkmen and Okan Gulel
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2022 20:5
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  44. Three-dimensional (3D) speckle tracking echocardiography (STE) can overcome some of the inherent limitations of two-dimensional (2D) STE; however, clinical experience is lacking. We aimed to assess and compare...

    Authors: Doaa Aly, Nitin Madan, Laura Kuzava, Alison Samrany and Anitha Parthiban
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2022 20:3
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  45. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between echocardiography results and lung ultrasound score (LUS) in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia patients and evaluate the impact of the combin...

    Authors: Jing Han, Xi Yang, Wei Xu, Ronghua Jin, Weiyuan Liu, Lei Ding, Sha Meng, Yuan Zhang, Jin Li, Ying Zheng, Haowen Li and Fankun Meng
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2022 20:2
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  46. 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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  47. 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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  48. 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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  49. 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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  50. 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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