Guidelines for the Echocardiographic Assessment of the Right Heart in Adults: A Report from the American Society of Echocardiography

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography - Tập 23 Số 7 - Trang 685-713 - 2010
Lawrence Rudski1, Wyman W. Lai2, Jonathan Afilalo1, Lanqi Hua3, Mark D. Handschumacher3, Krishnaswamy Chandrasekaran4, Scott D. Solomon5, Eric K. Louie6, Nelson B. Schiller7
1Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York Presbyterian, New York, New York
3Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
4Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, Arizona
5Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
6Sg2, LLC, London, United Kingdom
7University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California

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