Recommendations for Chamber Quantification: A Report from the American Society of Echocardiography’s Guidelines and Standards Committee and the Chamber Quantification Writing Group, Developed in Conjunction with the European Association of Echocardiography, a Branch of the European Society of Cardiology

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography - Tập 18 Số 12 - Trang 1440-1463 - 2005
Roberto M. Lang1, Michelle Bierig2, Richard B. Devereux3, Frank A. Flachskampf4, Elyse Foster5, Patricia A. Pellikka6, Michael H. Picard7, Mary J. Roman3, James D. Seward6, Jack S. Shanewise8, Scott D. Solomon9, Kirk T. Spencer1, Martin St. John Sutton10, William J. Stewart11
1University of Chicago Hospitals, Chicago, IL
2St. Louis University Health Science Center, St. Louis MO
3Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY
4University of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
5Univ. of California San Francisco, CA
6Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.
7Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass.
8Columbia University, New York, NY
9Bringham and Women’s University, Boston, Mass
10Univ of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
11Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH

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