Correspondence

Heart

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 264-265

  Cantinotti, Massimiliano ^a   Assanta, Nadia ^a   Murzi, Bruno ^a   Iervasi, Giorgio ^a,b   Spadoni, Isabella ^a  

^a Ospedale del Cuore   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART LEFT RIGHT SHUNT; HUMAN; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; LETTER; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; STANDARDIZATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; IMAGING AND DIAGNOSTICS;

CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; IMAGING AND DIAGNOSTICS;

DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS, PATENT; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, VENTRICULAR; HUMANS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT;

EID: 84891821180     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2013-304992     Document Type: Letter

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