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  1. Echocardiography remains the reference-standard imaging technique for assessing valvular heart disease (VHD), but artifacts like the ‘color Doppler stripe’ can complicate diagnosis. This artifact is not widely...

    Authors: Yuichi Baba, Yuri Ochi, Juri Kawaguchi, Azumi Takiishi, Daigo Hirakawa, Toru Kubo, Naohito Yamasaki and Hiroaki Kitaoka
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2024 22:12
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  2. In assessing the effects of smoking cessation on endothelial function, low-flow-mediated constriction (L-FMC) may provide complementary information to flow-mediated dilation (FMD). However, the value of flow-m...

    Authors: Naoki Okuyama, Kazuo Fukumoto, Yasuhiko Takemoto, Takeshi Yamauchi, Ayako Makuuchi, Hiroki Namikawa, Hiromitsu Toyoda, Yoshihiro Tochino, Yasuhiro Izumiya, Daiju Fukuda and Taichi Shuto
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2024 22:11
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  4. Currently, no normal ultrasound data of the fetuses during the 20–40 gestation have been obtained for references of fetal growth and development. If such ultrasound data existed for prenatal diagnosis of possi...

    Authors: Guihong Chen, Pin Wang, Yanhong Zhang, Na Li, Liman Fu, Yu Chen, Xuna Geng, Yongfeng Han, Lu Qin, Bulang Gao, Tianxiao Yu and Jie Mi
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2024 22:9
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  6. To evaluate the feasibility of a transthoracic echocardiogram using an apical-subcostal protocol in invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) and prone position.

    Authors: César Del Castillo, Fernando Verdugo, Franco Appiani, Francisca Yáñez, Camila Bontá, Carlos Torres-Herrera, Angela Garcia, Zorba Blázquez-Bermejo, Javier Castrodeza, Daniel Requena, Andreina Rodríguez, Arquimedes Silvio, Agustín Gatica, Arnulfo Begazo and Mario Alfaro
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2024 22:7
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  7. Impaired functional capacity is a common symptom in patients with heart failure. Standard measures of left ventricular (LV) function, such as ejection fraction (EF) and LV diastolic parameters, do not correlat...

    Authors: John W. Petersen, Natalie Bracewell, Kevin M. Schneider, Joshua Latner, Shuang Yang and Yi Guo
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2024 22:6
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2024 22:8

  8. Coronary microvascular dysfunction (CMD) refers to structural and functional abnormalities of the coronary microcirculation, which may be diagnosed using invasive coronary physiology. CMD is responsible for im...

    Authors: Julien La Mela, Laurent Riou and Gilles Barone-Rochette
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2024 22:5
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  9. Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) represents a significant proportion of heart failure cases. Accurate diagnosis is challenging due to the heterogeneous nature of the disease and limitatio...

    Authors: Mariane Higa Shinzato, Natasha Santos, Gustavo Nishida, Henrique Moriya, Jorge Assef, Fausto Feres and Renato A. Hortegal
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2024 22:4
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  10. Swine are frequently used as animal model for cardiovascular research, especially in terms of representativity of human anatomy and physiology. Reference values for the most common species used in research are...

    Authors: Michelle Costa Galbas, Hendrik Cornelius Straky, Florian Meissner, Johanna Reuter, Marius Schimmel, Sebastian Grundmann, Martin Czerny and Wolfgang Bothe
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2024 22:3
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  11. This study aimed to evaluate atherosclerosis as comorbidity by measuring the carotid (bulb and common carotid artery) Carotid intima-media thickness in COPD-diagnosed patients and to evaluate the relationship ...

    Authors: Ali Firincioglulari, Hakan Erturk, Mujgan Firincioglulari and Cigdem Biber
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2024 22:2
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  13. Physical activity contributes to changes in cardiac morphology, which are known as “athlete’s heart”. Therefore, these modifications can be characterized using different imaging modalities such as echocardiogr...

    Authors: Nurmakhan Zholshybek, Zaukiya Khamitova, Bauyrzhan Toktarbay, Dinara Jumadilova, Nail Khissamutdinov, Tairkhan Dautov, Yeltay Rakhmanov, Makhabbat Bekbossynova, Abduzhappar Gaipov and Alessandro Salustri
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2023 21:21
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  14. Intra-cardiac echocardiography (ICE) has become an important tool for catheter ablation. Adoption of ICE imaging is still limited because of its prohibitively high cost. Our aim was to study the safety and fea...

    Authors: Vedran Velagic, Giacomo Mugnai, Ivan Prepolec, Vedran Pasara, Anica Milinković, Andrija Nekić, Jakov Emanuel Bogdanic, Jurica Putric Posavec, Davor Puljević, Carlo de Asmundis, Gian-Battista Chierchia and Davor Milicic
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2023 21:20
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  15. Measurement of the left ventricular outflow tract diameter (LVOTd) in echocardiography is a common source of error when used to calculate the stroke volume. The aim of this study is to assess whether a deep le...

    Authors: Sigurd Zijun Zha, Magnus Rogstadkjernet, Lars Gunnar Klæboe, Helge Skulstad, Bjørn-Jostein Singstad, Andrew Gilbert, Thor Edvardsen, Eigil Samset and Pål Haugar Brekke
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2023 21:19
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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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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  21. 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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  22. 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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  23. 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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  24. 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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  25. 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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  26. 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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  27. 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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  28. 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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  29. 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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  30. 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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  31. 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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  32. 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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  33. 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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  34. 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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  35. 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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  36. 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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  37. 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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  38. 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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  39. 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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  40. 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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  41. 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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  42. 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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  44. 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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  45. 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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  46. 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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  47. 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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  48. 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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  49. 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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