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Accuracy of echocardiographic area-length method in chronic myocardial infarction: comparison with cardiac CT in pigs

BACKGROUND: We evaluated echocardiographic area-length methods to measure left ventricle (LV) volumes and ejection fraction (EF) in parasternal short axis views in comparison with cardiac computed tomography (CT) in pigs with chronic myocardial infarction (MI). METHODS: Male farm pigs with surgical...

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Autores principales: Ballo, Haitham, Tarkia, Miikka, Haavisto, Matti, Stark, Christoffer, Strandberg, Marjatta, Vähäsilta, Tommi, Saunavaara, Virva, Tolvanen, Tuula, Teräs, Mika, Hynninen, Ville-Veikko, Savunen, Timo, Roivainen, Anne, Knuuti, Juhani, Saraste, Antti
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5223339/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28069008
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12947-016-0093-0