Echocardiographic Quantification of Left Ventricular Volume: What Can We Do Better?

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 998-1000

  Mor Avi, Victor ^a   Lang, Roberto M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; FOLLOW UP; GEOMETRY; HEART DISEASE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VOLUMETRY;

AGED; ARTIFACTS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 50249179740     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2008.07.011     Document Type: Editorial

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