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  1. Gerbode defect is a rare type of left ventricle to right atrium shunt. It is usually congenital in origin, but acquired cases are also described, mainly following infective endocarditis, valve replacement, traum...

    Authors: Hélder Dores, João Abecasis, Regina Ribeiras, José Pedro Neves and Miguel Mendes

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2012 10:7

    Content type: Case report

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  2. Our study compares new single beat 3D echocardiography (sb3DE) to cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) for the measurement of right ventricular (RV) dimension and function immediately after a 30 km ...

    Authors: Sebastian Schattke, Moritz Wagner, Robert Hättasch, Sabrina Schroeckh, Tahir Durmus, Ingolf Schimke, Wasiem Sanad, Sebastian Spethmann, Jürgen Scharhag, Alexander Huppertz, Gert Baumann, Adrian C Borges and Fabian Knebel

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2012 10:6

    Content type: Research

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  3. Flow patterns in univentricular hearts may have clinical value. Therefore, it is our objective to asses and characterize vortex flow patterns with Fontan circulation in comparison with healthy controls.

    Authors: Konstantinos Lampropoulos, Werner Budts, Alexander Van de Bruaene, Els Troost and Joost P van Melle

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2012 10:5

    Content type: Research

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    The Erratum to this article has been published in Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2012 10:18

  5. Mitral valve thickness is used as a criterion to distinguish the classical from the non-classical form of mitral valve prolapse (MVP). Classical form of MVP has been associated with higher risk of mitral regur...

    Authors: Mario Sénéchal, Nicolas Michaud, Jimmy MacHaalany, Mathieu Bernier, Michelle Dubois, Julien Magne, Christian Couture, Patrick Mathieu, Olivier F Bertrand and Pierre Voisine

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2012 10:3

    Content type: Research

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  6. Use of rate adaptive atrioventricular (AV) delay remains controversial in patients with biventricular (Biv) pacing. We hypothesized that a shortened AV delay would provide optimal diastolic filling by allowing...

    Authors: Reza Rafie, Salima Qamruddin, Ali Ozhand, Nima Taha and Tasneem Z Naqvi

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2012 10:2

    Content type: Research

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  7. Three-dimensional echocardiography (3DE) and semi-automatic right ventricular delineation has been proposed as an appropriate method for right ventricle (RV) evaluation. We aimed to examine how manual correcti...

    Authors: Ellen Ostenfeld, Marcus Carlsson, Kambiz Shahgaldi, Anders Roijer and Johan Holm

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2012 10:1

    Content type: Research

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  8. Ingestion of a meal increases the blood flow to the gastrointestinal organs and affects the heart rate (HR), blood pressure and cardiac output (CO), although the mechanisms are not known. The aim of this study...

    Authors: Joanna Hlebowicz, Sandra Lindstedt, Ola Björgell and Magnus Dencker

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:43

    Content type: Research

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  9. Blood flow between the right and left ventricles is subject to the continuity equation and systolic ventricular interdependence. Quantification of this relationship might aid in understanding inter-ventricular...

    Authors: Steven R Bruhl, Mangeet Chahal and Samer J Khouri

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:42

    Content type: Research

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  10. Chronic right ventricular (RV) apical pacing may lead to left ventricular (LV) dyssynchrony and LV dysfunction. In heart failure due to RV pacing, upgrading to biventricular stimulation (CRT) can improve NYHA ...

    Authors: Maria-Aurora Morales, Umberto Startari, Giuseppe Rossi, Luca Panchetti, Andrea Rossi and Marcello Piacenti

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:41

    Content type: Research

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  11. Cardiac syndrome X is an important therapeutic and diagnostic challenge to physician. Study of Csx patients may help to understand the pathophysiology of coronary microcirculation and to gain an insight on the...

    Authors: Otikunta Adikesava Naidu, Durgaprasad Rajasekhar and SAA Latheef

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:40

    Content type: Research

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  12. In recent years, several new technologies for small-animal imaging have been developed. In particular, the use of ultrasound in animal imaging has focused on the investigation of accessible biological structur...

    Authors: Maria Paola Belfiore, Daniela Berritto, Francesca Iacobellis, Claudia Rossi, Gerardo Nigro, Ida Luisa Rotundo, Santolo Cozzolino, Salvatore Cappabianca, Antonio Rotondo and Roberto Grassi

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:39

    Content type: Research

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  13. There is strong evidence that left atrial (LA) size is a prognostic marker in a variety of heart diseases. Recently, real-time three-dimensional echocardiography (RT3DE) has been reported as a useful tool for ...

    Authors: Constantina Aggeli, Ioannis Felekos, Emmanuel Poulidakis, Athanasios Aggelis, Dimitrios Tousoulis and Christodoulos Stefanadis

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:38

    Content type: Research

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  14. This study was designed to describe Doppler-echocardiography values of Carpentier-Edwards Perimount Standard (CEPS) and Carpentier-Edwards Perimount Magna (CEPM) aortic prosthetic valves, evaluated by a single...

    Authors: Giovanni Minardi, Giovanni Pulignano, Donatella Del Sindaco, Martina Sordi, Herribert Pavaci, Amedeo Pergolini, Giordano Zampi, Francesca Moschella Orsini, Carlo Gaudio and Francesco Musumeci

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:37

    Content type: Research

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  15. The degree of pulmonary hypertension is not independently related to the severity of left ventricular systolic dysfunction but is frequently associated with diastolic filling abnormalities. The aim of this stu...

    Authors: Tonino Bombardini, Rosa Sicari, Elisabetta Bianchini and Eugenio Picano

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:36

    Content type: Research

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  16. The "radiation issue" is the need to consider possible deterministic effects (e.g., skin injuries) and long-term cancer risks due to ionizing radiation in the risk-benefit assessment of diagnostic or therapeut...

    Authors: Eugenio Picano and Eliseo Vano

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:35

    Content type: Research

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  17. To prospectively evaluate the relationship between left atrial volume (LAV) and the risk of clinical events in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).

    Authors: Tomoko Tani, Toshikazu Yagi, Takeshi Kitai, Kitae Kim, Hitomi Nakamura, Toshiko Konda, Yoko Fujii, Junichi Kawai, Atsushi Kobori, Natsuhiko Ehara, Makoto Kinoshita, Shuichiro Kaji, Atsushi Yamamuro, Shigefumi Morioka, Toru Kita and Yutaka Furukawa

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:34

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  18. Hypertension is associated with atherosclerosis and cardiac and vascular structural and functional changes. Myocardial ischemia may arise in hypertension independent of coronary artery disease through an inter...

    Authors: Mai Tone Lønnebakken, Åshild E Rieck and Eva Gerdts

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:33

    Content type: Case report

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  19. Intima-media thickness of the common carotid artery (CCA-IMT) is a validated marker of systemic atherosclerosis process. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between coronary artery disease (C...

    Authors: Marco M Ciccone, Pietro Scicchitano, Annapaola Zito, Luciano Agati, Michele Gesualdo, Sandro Mandolesi, Rosa Carbonara, Francesco Ciciarello and Francesco Fedele

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:32

    Content type: Research

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  20. We evaluated the impact of chronic kidney disease (CKD) on the presence and severity of aortic stenosis (AS) in patients at high risk for coronary artery disease (CAD).

    Authors: Chiaki Masuda, Kaoru Dohi, Yuko Sakurai, Yuri Bessho, Harumi Fukuda, Shinobu Fujii, Tadafumi Sugimoto, Masaki Tanabe, Katsuya Onishi, Katsuya Shiraki, Masaaki Ito and Tsutomu Nobori

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:31

    Content type: Research

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  21. Sodium channel blockers augment ST-segment elevation in the right precordial leads in patients undergoing Brugada-type electrocardiography (ECG). However, their effect on echocardiographic features is not know...

    Authors: Kazuya Murata, Takeshi Ueyama, Takeo Tanaka, Yoshio Nose, Yasuaki Wada and Masunori Matsuzaki

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:30

    Content type: Research

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  22. Many previous studies have evaluated the impact of mitral valve (MV) deformity scores on the percutaneous transvenous mitral commissurotomy (PTMC) outcome in patients with mitral stenosis; however, the relatio...

    Authors: Mojtaba Salarifar, Mehrnaz Rezvanfard, Hakimeh Sadeghian, Azam Safir-mardanloo and Nahid Shafii

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:29

    Content type: Research

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  23. Cardiac resynchronization therapy is proven efficacious in patients with heart failure (HF). Presence of biventricular HF is associated with a worse prognosis than having only left ventricular (LV) HF and paci...

    Authors: Magnus Edner, Margareta Ring and Peter Henriksson

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:28

    Content type: Research

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  24. Regular training, in particular endurance exercise, induces structural myocardial adaptation, so-called "athlete's heart". In addition to the 2D standard echo parameters, assessment of myocardial function is c...

    Authors: Alessio De Luca, Laura Stefani, Gianni Pedrizzetti, Stefano Pedri and Giorgio Galanti

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:27

    Content type: Research

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  25. When applying echo-Doppler imaging for either clinical or research purposes it is very important to select the most adequate modality/technology and choose the most reliable and reproducible measurements. Qual...

    Authors: Maurizio Galderisi, Stefano Nistri, Sergio Mondillo, Maria-Angela Losi, Pasquale Innelli, Donato Mele, Denisa Muraru, Antonello D'Andrea, Piercarlo Ballo, Aurelio Sgalambro, Roberta Esposito, Giuliano Marti, Alessandro Santoro, Eustachio Agricola, Luigi P Badano, Roberto Marchioli…

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:26

    Content type: Technical notes

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  27. Matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) and tissue inhibitor of MMP (TIMP) promote derangement of the extracellular matrix, which is ultimately reflected in plaque images seen on ultrasound. Videodensitometry can i...

    Authors: Liz Andréa V Baroncini, Antonio Filho Pazin, Luiz Otávio Murta Junior, Lia S Nakao, Simone G Ramos and Dalton B Précoma

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:24

    Content type: Research

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  28. A 71-year-old woman presented with a right adnexal solid mass invading the right gonadal vein and inferior vena cava up to the hepatic veins revealed by CT and confirmed by MRI. A thin-walled cyst and a solid ...

    Authors: Cristina L Wood, James Sederberg II, Paul Russ and Tamas Seres

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:23

    Content type: Case report

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  31. Biventricular (Biv) pacemaker echo optimization has been shown to improve cardiac output however is not routinely used due to its complexity. We investigated the role of a simple method involving computerized ...

    Authors: Nima Taha, Jing Zhang, Reza Rafie, Rupesh Ranjan, Salima Qamruddin and Tasneem Z Naqvi

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:20

    Content type: Research

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  32. the clinical decision making could be difficult in patients with borderline lesions (visually assessed stenosis severity of 30 to 50%) of the left main coronary artery (LM). The aim of the study was to evaluat...

    Authors: Zoltán Ruzsa, Attila Pálinkás, Tamás Forster, Imre Ungi and Albert Varga

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:19

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  33. A 51-year-old female undergoing an outpatient stress echocardiogram to evaluate atypical chest pain developed acute ST elevation in the anterior precordial leads on electrocardiogram following exercise. Echoca...

    Authors: Tung H Nguyen, Leonardo C Clavijo and Tasneem Z Naqvi

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:18

    Content type: Case report

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  34. Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) has been considered a major determinant of early outcome in acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Myocardial performance index (MPI) has been associated to early evolutio...

    Authors: Lilian P Souza, Orlando Campos, Clovis A Peres, Cristiano V Machado and Antonio C Carvalho

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:17

    Content type: Research

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  35. The study was designed to evaluate whether the preserved coronary flow reserve (CFR) 72 hours after reperfused acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is associated with less microvascular dysfunction and is predict...

    Authors: Egle Sadauskiene, Diana Zakarkaite, Ligita Ryliskyte, Jelena Celutkiene, Alfredas Rudys, Sigita Aidietiene and Aleksandras Laucevicius

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:16

    Content type: Research

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  36. Feasibility of noninvasive monitoring of cardiac function after surgically induced ischemic cardiomyopathy with tissue Doppler and non-Doppler 2D strain echocardiography in rats.

    Authors: Sebastian Holinski, Fabian Knebel, Georg Heinze, Wolfgang Konertz, Gert Baumann and Adrian C Borges

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:15

    Content type: Research

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  37. The aim of this study was to verify the benefits and limitations of repeated bedside echocardiographic examinations in children during mechanical ventilation. For the purposes of this study, we selected the da...

    Authors: Jiri Kobr, Jiri Fremuth, Katerina Pizingerova, Lumir Sasek, Petr Jehlicka, Sarka Fikrlova and Zdenek Slavik

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:14

    Content type: Research

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  38. Aortic stiffness is an independent predictor factor for cardiovascular risk. Different methods for determining pulse wave velocity (PWV) are used, among which the most common are mechanical methods such as Sph...

    Authors: Jordi Calabia, Pere Torguet, Maria Garcia, Isabel Garcia, Nadia Martin, Bernat Guasch, Diana Faur and Martí Vallés

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:13

    Content type: Research

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  39. We report a case of a 52-year-old patient with dilated cardiomyopathy who presented with worsening heart failure. Two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography and real-time three dimensional transthoracic ec...

    Authors: Wenjuan Bai, Hui Li, Qing Zhang and Li Rao

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:12

    Content type: Case report

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  40. We have previously reported strain dyssynchrony index assessed by two-dimensional speckle tracking strain, and a marker of both dyssynchrony and residual myocardial contractility, can predict response to cardi...

    Authors: Kazuhiro Tatsumi, Hidekazu Tanaka, Takayuki Tsuji, Akihiro Kaneko, Keiko Ryo, Kohei Yamawaki, Alaa MS Omar, Yuko Fukuda, Kazuko Norisada, Kensuke Matsumoto, Tetsuari Onishi, Akihiro Yoshida, Hiroya Kawai and Ken-ichi Hirata

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:11

    Content type: Research

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  41. The determination of coronary flow reserve (CFR) is an essential concept at the moment of decision-making in ischemic heart disease. There are several direct and indirect tests to evaluate this parameter. In t...

    Authors: Ezequiel H Forte, Maria G Rousse and Jorge A Lowenstein

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:10

    Content type: Research

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  42. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and antiretroviral treatment are associated with metabolic and cardiovascular complications that potentially increase the risk of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular...

    Authors: Pierfrancesco Grima, Marcello Guido, Roberto Chiavaroli, Antonella De Donno, Mariangela Tana and Antonella Zizza

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:9

    Content type: Research

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  43. A 63-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with a complaint of right lateroabdominal pain. He was diagnosed with metastatic colon cancer, and then developed multiple brain embolic infarctions 7 days after ...

    Authors: Kazuko Norisada, Hidekazu Tanaka, Tetsuari Onishi, Akihiro Kaneko, Takayuki Tsuji, Kohei Yamawaki, Keiko Ryo, Kazuhiro Tatsumi, Kensuke Matsumoto, Natsuko Miura, Jun Saegusa, Yukiko Morinaga, Shigeo Hara, Hiroya Kawai and Ken-ichi Hirata

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:8

    Content type: Case report

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  44. Valvular strands, well-delineated filiform masses, attached to cardiac valve edges are associated with cerebral embolism and stroke. Strokes, caused by emboli from valvular strands, tend to occur among younger...

    Authors: James Ker

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:7

    Content type: Case report

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  45. For many years the lung has been considered off-limits for ultrasound. However, it has been recently shown that lung ultrasound (LUS) may represent a useful tool for the evaluation of many pulmonary conditions...

    Authors: Luna Gargani

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:6

    Content type: Review

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  46. Tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) is a noninvasive echocardiographic method for the diagnosis of diastolic dysfunction in patients with varying degrees of aortic stenosis (AS). Little is known however, on the utili...

    Authors: Davinder S Jassal, Kapil M Bhagirath, Erin Karlstedt, Matthew Zeglinski, Jean G Dumesnil, Koon K Teo, James W Tam and Kwan L Chan

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:5

    Content type: Research

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  47. A 53-year-old man with depressed ejection fraction (EF) of 35% and QRS width of 88 ms at rest was admitted to our institution with a complaint of exertional chest discomfort and dyspnea. During treadmill exerc...

    Authors: Hidekazu Tanaka, Mana Hiraishi, Tatsuya Miyoshi, Takayuki Tsuji, Akihiro Kaneko, Keiko Ryo, Kohei Yamawaki, Yuko Fukuda, Kazuko Norisada, Kazuhiro Tatsumi, Kensuke Matsumoto, Hiroya Kawai and Ken-ichi Hirata

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:4

    Content type: Case report

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  48. Partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection (PAPVC) is an extremely rare congenital condition where one or more of the pulmonary veins are connected to the venous circulation. Although initially suspected wi...

    Authors: Roman Nepomuceno, Matthew Zeglinski, Jordyn Lerner, Wlodzimierz Czarnecki, Iain DC Kirkpatrick, Jacek Strzelczyk and Davinder S Jassal

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:3

    Content type: Case report

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  49. Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) is an invasive modality which provides cross-sectional images of a coronary artery. In these images both the lumen and outer vessel wall can be identified and accurate estimatio...

    Authors: Christos V Bourantas, Scot Garg, Katerina K Naka, Attila Thury, Angela Hoye and Lampros K Michalis

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:2

    Content type: Review

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  50. Acute myocarditis may mimic myocardial infarction, since affected patients complain of "typical" chest pain, the ECG changes are identical to those observed in acute coronary syndromes, and serum markers are i...

    Authors: Marcello Costantini, Giuseppe Oreto, Alberto Albanese, Anna Ranieri, Giovanni De Fabrizio, iovanni Sticchi, Antonio Lauretti, Sergio Capone, Cristina Tritto, Claudio Fachechi, Realino Renna, Antonio Montinaro and Eugenio Picano

    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:1

    Content type: Research

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