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Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Systolic Excursion and Fractional Shortening: Can These Echocardiographic Parameters be Used for the Assessment of Right Ventricular Function?

BACKGROUND: Echocardiographic right ventricular (RV) function assessment is difficult and still a gray area despite rapid advancement of imaging modalities. The aim of this study is to assess the role of echocardiographic RV outflow tract (RVOT) function in the form of RVOT fractional shortening (RV...

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Autores principales: Allam, Lamyaa Elsayed, Onsy, Ahmed Mohammed, Ghalib, Hylan Ahmed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5412749/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28465993
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2211-4122.203557