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Impact of image quality on reliability of the measurements of left ventricular systolic function and global longitudinal strain in 2D echocardiography

BACKGROUND: Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) and global longitudinal strain (GLS) play important roles in diagnosis and management of cardiac diseases. However, the issue of the accuracy and reliability of LVEF and GLS remains to be solved. Image quality is one of the most important factors...

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Autores principales: Nagata, Yasufumi, Kado, Yuichiro, Onoue, Takeshi, Otani, Kyoko, Nakazono, Akemi, Otsuji, Yutaka, Takeuchi, Masaaki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Bioscientifica Ltd 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5817997/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29432198
http://dx.doi.org/10.1530/ERP-17-0047