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    Exercise-induced premature ventricular complexes (EI-PVCs) are key indicators of subclinical cardiac dysfunction and elevated cardiovascular risk. However, their clinical significance and prognostic value rema...

    Authors: Muhammet Geneş and Uygar Çağdaş Yüksel
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2025 23:22
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  2. The prognostic value of functional echocardiographic parameters for risk stratification in chronic coronary syndrome (CCS) remains incompletely understood. This study aimed to integrate resting and stress echo...

    Authors: Li Zhao, Peng-Li Xu, Qing-Yi Luo, Xuan Su, Shu-Han Ye, Zi-Long Yang, Xiao-Lei Song, Qing-Hui Wang and Yun-Chuan Ding
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2025 23:21
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  4. Vulnerable plaques are significant risk factors for acute ischemic events, and intraplaque neovascularization (IPN) is an important indicator for evaluating plaque vulnerability. This review summarizes the imp...

    Authors: Yang Yang, Fangqin Liu, Jiaojun Yan, Yunhao Luo, Qiuyun Huang and Lang Qiao
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2025 23:19
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  5. A 35-year-old male, without significant cardiovascular history, presented with recurrent palpitations. Initial echocardiographic evaluation demonstrated eccentric left ventricular hypertrophy, mild systolic dy...

    Authors: Marco Fabio Costantino, Gianpaolo D’Addeo, Stefano Mancino, Luisiana Stolfi and Teresa Mannarino
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2025 23:18
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  7. Although the left atrium (LA) plays a key role in diastolic function, LA dysfunction in patients with repaired tetralogy of Fallot (rTOF) remains unclear. Recently, LA strains assessed using a speckle tracking...

    Authors: Keiya Sato, Ken Takahashi, Yusuke Akatsuka, Hiroyuki Sato, Hirohisa Kago, Azusa Akiya, Satoshi Akimoto, Mayumi Ifuku, Yu Hosono, Sachie Shigemitsu, Kotoko Matsui, Keisuke Nakanishi, Shiori Kawasaki and Toshiaki Shimizu
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2025 23:16
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  8. The reliability of the recommended echocardiographic methods for assessing RV diastolic function has been questioned. We aimed to validate noninvasive indices of RV diastolic function, derived from tricuspid D...

    Authors: Candelas Pérez del Villar, Raquel Prieto-Arévalo, Jorge García-Carreño, Pablo Martínez-Legazpi, Daniel Rodríguez-Pérez, Yolanda Benito, Antonia Delgado-Montero, J. Carlos Antoranz, M. Mar Desco, Cristian Herrera Flores, Rafael Corisco Beltrán, Francisco Fernández-Avilés and Javier Bermejo
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2025 23:15
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  9. The evaluation of left ventricular (LV) flow dynamics is a novel approach to assessing LV function that goes beyond traditional metrics. This approach has been applied to patients with heart failure (HF), prov...

    Authors: Donato Mele, Lorenzo Serio, Riccardo Beccari, Antonella Cecchetto, Stefano Nistri and Gianni Pedrizzetti
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2025 23:13
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  10. Conduction system pacing (CSP), encompassing His-bundle pacing (HBP) and left bundle branch area pacing (LBBAP), revolutionizes cardiac pacing, allowing a more physiological left ventricular activation than co...

    Authors: Alexander Suchodolski, Ewa Jędrzejczyk-Patej, Wiktoria Kowalska, Michał Mazurek, Radosław Lenarczyk, Oskar Kowalski, Zbigniew Kalarus and Mariola Szulik
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2025 23:14
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  11. Early identification of subclinical left ventricular (LV) systolic dysfunction (LVSD) in patients with isolated left bundle branch block (LBBB) and preserved LV ejection fraction (LVEF), termed LBBBpEF, is clinic...

    Authors: Guangyuan Li, Yonghuai Wang, Bo Pang, Jun Yang and Chunyan Ma
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2025 23:7
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  13. The assessment of left ventricular (LV) diastolic function based on the American Society of Echocardiography and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (ASE/EACVI) guidelines requires measurement o...

    Authors: Takahiro Sakamoto, Toshihiko Asanuma, Hiroyuki Sasaki, Hiroshi Kawahara, Kazuhiko Uchida, Akihiro Endo, Hiroyuki Yoshitomi and Kazuaki Tanabe
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2025 23:6
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  14. To analyze the echocardiography characteristics of pulmonary artery sling (PAS) and explore the diagnostic value of the distance between the bifurcation of the left and right pulmonary arteries and the pulmona...

    Authors: Qiu-Chen Xu, Jian-Feng Liu, Min Xie, Zong-Jie Weng, Qiang Chen and Shan Guo
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2025 23:5
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  15. The echocardiography is the first-line imaging modality in detecting the cardiac lipoma. Contrast-enhanced echocardiography improves its structural definition and characteristics of blood supply to exclude thr...

    Authors: Tianshu Liu, Lingyun Fang, Jiawei Shi, Lin He, Jing Zhang, Yuman Li, Mingxing Xie and Jing Wang
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2025 23:11
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  16. Several predictors of atrial fibrillation (AF) onset in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) have been proposed, however, all of them showed limited accuracy. This study aims to assess the role of n...

    Authors: Parisi Francesca, La Franca Eluisa, Pistelli Lorenzo, Gentile Giovanni, Bellavia Diego, Nuzzi Vincenzo, Manca Paolo, Massimiliano Mulè, Zito Concetta, Di Bella Gianluca, Scipione Carerj, Cipriani Manlio and Francesco F. Faletra
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2025 23:10
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  17. Left ventricular (LV) long-axis shortening at the cardiac base is a determinant of left atrial (LA) reservoir function. Cardiac amyloidosis (CA) is characteristic of amyloid deposition predominantly in the LV ...

    Authors: Katsuji Inoue, Yasuhisa Nakao, Makoto Saito, Masaki Kinoshita, Haruhiko Higashi and Osamu Yamaguchi
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2025 23:4
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  18. Functional single ventricle represents a complex congenital cardiac malformation where ventricular function directly impacts patients’ quality of life and prognosis. Accurate assessment of ventricular function...

    Authors: Mengqian Liao, Junxiang Pan, Tianhao Liao, Xuechen Liu and Lianyi Wang
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2025 23:9
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  19. Pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE) is a common cause of cardiovascular death worldwide. Due to its nonspecific clinical symptoms, PTE is easy to be missed or misdiagnosed. Pulmonary transit time (PTT) is a noninv...

    Authors: He Zhang, Jianfeng Chen, Jiayu Wang, Song Kang, Yingying Liu, Binyang Zhu, Xue Mei, Xin AI, Guangyin Li and Shuangquan Jiang
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2025 23:8
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  20. The incorporation of artificial intelligence (AI) into point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) platforms has rapidly increased. The number of B-lines present on lung ultrasound (LUS) serve as a useful tool for the as...

    Authors: Ashkan Labaf, Linda Åhman-Persson, Leo Silvén Husu, J. Gustav Smith, Annika Ingvarsson and Anna Werther Evaldsson
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2025 23:3
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  21. Mitral valve prolapse (MVP) is a common condition affecting approximately 3% of the population, typically with a benign clinical course. However, a small subset of patients (5–10%) may develop severe mitral re...

    Authors: Francesco Fulvio Faletra, Giuseppe Sgarito, Francesca Parisi, Eluisa La Franca, Massimiliano Mulè, Alessandra Carvelli, Giovanni Di Stefano, Rita Laura Borrello, Vincenzo Nuzzi, Paolo Manca and Manlio Cipriani
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2025 23:2
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  22. Left atrial (LA) and ventricular (LV) functional impairment often co-exist in patients with heart failure (HF). However, some patients with HF have a disproportionate LA or LV dysfunction. We aimed to characte...

    Authors: Xuanyi Jin, Wan Ting Tay, Dinna Soon, David Sim, Seet Yoong Loh, Sheldon Lee, Fazlur Jaufeerally, Lieng Hsi Ling, A. Mark Richards, Adriaan A. Voors, Carolyn S. P. Lam and Joost P. van Melle
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2025 23:1
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  23. Right ventricular myocardial work (RVMW) assessed by transthoracic echocardiography allows to study the right ventricular (RV) function using RV pressure-strain loops. The assessment of these novel indexes of ...

    Authors: Bárbara Lacerda Teixeira, Francisco Albuquerque, Raquel Santos, André Ferreira, Ricardo Carvalheiro, João Reis, Luis Almeida Morais, Tânia Mano, Pedro Rio, Ana Teresa Timoteo, Rui Cruz Ferreira and Ana Galrinho
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2025 22:16
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  24. Left atrium (LA) is far from simply being a passive connection chamber between left ventricle and the pulmonary circulation. In patients affected by mitral regurgitation (MR) an impairment in LA compliance and...

    Authors: Giacomo Ingallina, Gabriele Paci, Davide Margonato, Leonardo Italia, Francesco Ancona, Stefano Stella, Federico Biondi, Annamaria Tavernese, Martina Belli, Monica Barki, Michele Morosato, Jennifer Wong, Massimo Slavich, Alessandro Castiglioni, Michele De Bonis, Francesco Maisano…
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2024 22:14
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  25. Despite its proven prognostic value in different contexts, the precise implications of left atrial strain (LAS) assessment throughout different phases of the atrial cycle remain uncertain. A direct correlation...

    Authors: José Francisco Forteza-Albertí, Yolanda Rico, Alfonso Leiva, Pere Pericas, Francisco Gual-Capllonch, Lisandro Rivas-Catoni, Laura Gutiérrez García-Moreno, Antonio Rodríguez Fernández and Vicente Peral Disdier
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2024 22:15
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  26. Atrial cardiomyopathy is closely associated with atrial fibrillation (AF), and some patients exhibit no dysfunction at rest but demonstrate evident changes in left atrial (LA) function and LA volume during exe...

    Authors: Angela Zagatina, Quirino Ciampi, Jesus Vazquez Peteiro, Elena Kalinina, Irina Begidova, Ratnasari Padang, Alla Boshchenko, Elisa Merli, Matteo Lisi, Hugo Rodriguez-Zanella, Sergio Kobal, Gergely Agoston, Albert Varga, Karina Wierzbowska-Drabik, Jarosław D. Kasprzak, Rosina Arbucci…
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2024 22:13
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  27. Echocardiography remains the reference-standard imaging technique for assessing valvular heart disease (VHD), but artifacts like the ‘color Doppler stripe’ can complicate diagnosis. This artifact is not widely...

    Authors: Yuichi Baba, Yuri Ochi, Juri Kawaguchi, Azumi Takiishi, Daigo Hirakawa, Toru Kubo, Naohito Yamasaki and Hiroaki Kitaoka
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2024 22:12
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  28. In assessing the effects of smoking cessation on endothelial function, low-flow-mediated constriction (L-FMC) may provide complementary information to flow-mediated dilation (FMD). However, the value of flow-m...

    Authors: Naoki Okuyama, Kazuo Fukumoto, Yasuhiko Takemoto, Takeshi Yamauchi, Ayako Makuuchi, Hiroki Namikawa, Hiromitsu Toyoda, Yoshihiro Tochino, Yasuhiro Izumiya, Daiju Fukuda and Taichi Shuto
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2024 22:11
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  30. Currently, no normal ultrasound data of the fetuses during the 20–40 gestation have been obtained for references of fetal growth and development. If such ultrasound data existed for prenatal diagnosis of possi...

    Authors: Guihong Chen, Pin Wang, Yanhong Zhang, Na Li, Liman Fu, Yu Chen, Xuna Geng, Yongfeng Han, Lu Qin, Bulang Gao, Tianxiao Yu and Jie Mi
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2024 22:9
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  32. To evaluate the feasibility of a transthoracic echocardiogram using an apical-subcostal protocol in invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) and prone position.

    Authors: César Del Castillo, Fernando Verdugo, Franco Appiani, Francisca Yáñez, Camila Bontá, Carlos Torres-Herrera, Angela Garcia, Zorba Blázquez-Bermejo, Javier Castrodeza, Daniel Requena, Andreina Rodríguez, Arquimedes Silvio, Agustín Gatica, Arnulfo Begazo and Mario Alfaro
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2024 22:7
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  33. Impaired functional capacity is a common symptom in patients with heart failure. Standard measures of left ventricular (LV) function, such as ejection fraction (EF) and LV diastolic parameters, do not correlat...

    Authors: John W. Petersen, Natalie Bracewell, Kevin M. Schneider, Joshua Latner, Shuang Yang and Yi Guo
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2024 22:6
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  34. Coronary microvascular dysfunction (CMD) refers to structural and functional abnormalities of the coronary microcirculation, which may be diagnosed using invasive coronary physiology. CMD is responsible for im...

    Authors: Julien La Mela, Laurent Riou and Gilles Barone-Rochette
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2024 22:5
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  35. Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) represents a significant proportion of heart failure cases. Accurate diagnosis is challenging due to the heterogeneous nature of the disease and limitatio...

    Authors: Mariane Higa Shinzato, Natasha Santos, Gustavo Nishida, Henrique Moriya, Jorge Assef, Fausto Feres and Renato A. Hortegal
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2024 22:4
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  36. Swine are frequently used as animal model for cardiovascular research, especially in terms of representativity of human anatomy and physiology. Reference values for the most common species used in research are...

    Authors: Michelle Costa Galbas, Hendrik Cornelius Straky, Florian Meissner, Johanna Reuter, Marius Schimmel, Sebastian Grundmann, Martin Czerny and Wolfgang Bothe
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2024 22:3
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  37. This study aimed to evaluate atherosclerosis as comorbidity by measuring the carotid (bulb and common carotid artery) Carotid intima-media thickness in COPD-diagnosed patients and to evaluate the relationship ...

    Authors: Ali Firincioglulari, Hakan Erturk, Mujgan Firincioglulari and Cigdem Biber
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2024 22:2
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  39. Physical activity contributes to changes in cardiac morphology, which are known as “athlete’s heart”. Therefore, these modifications can be characterized using different imaging modalities such as echocardiogr...

    Authors: Nurmakhan Zholshybek, Zaukiya Khamitova, Bauyrzhan Toktarbay, Dinara Jumadilova, Nail Khissamutdinov, Tairkhan Dautov, Yeltay Rakhmanov, Makhabbat Bekbossynova, Abduzhappar Gaipov and Alessandro Salustri
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2023 21:21
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  40. Intra-cardiac echocardiography (ICE) has become an important tool for catheter ablation. Adoption of ICE imaging is still limited because of its prohibitively high cost. Our aim was to study the safety and fea...

    Authors: Vedran Velagic, Giacomo Mugnai, Ivan Prepolec, Vedran Pasara, Anica Milinković, Andrija Nekić, Jakov Emanuel Bogdanic, Jurica Putric Posavec, Davor Puljević, Carlo de Asmundis, Gian-Battista Chierchia and Davor Milicic
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2023 21:20
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  41. Measurement of the left ventricular outflow tract diameter (LVOTd) in echocardiography is a common source of error when used to calculate the stroke volume. The aim of this study is to assess whether a deep le...

    Authors: Sigurd Zijun Zha, Magnus Rogstadkjernet, Lars Gunnar Klæboe, Helge Skulstad, Bjørn-Jostein Singstad, Andrew Gilbert, Thor Edvardsen, Eigil Samset and Pål Haugar Brekke
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2023 21:19
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  42. Carcinoid heart disease (CHD) caused by neuroendocrine tumours (NET) is associated with an increased morbidity and mortality due to valvular dysfunction and right sided heart failure. The present study aimed t...

    Authors: Isabel Mattig, Maximilian Richard Franke, Rene Pschowski, Anna Brand, Karl Stangl, Fabian Knebel and Henryk Dreger
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2023 21:18
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  43. Accurate sizing of the tricuspid valve annulus is essential for determining the optimal timing of tricuspid valve (TV) intervention. Two-dimensional (2D) echocardiography has limitations for comprehensive TV a...

    Authors: Gintarė Bieliauskienė, Ieva Kažukauskienė, Rita Kramena, Aleksejus Zorinas, Antanas Mainelis and Diana Zakarkaitė
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2023 21:17
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  44. Although indexing effective orifice area (EOA) by body surface area (BSA) is recommended, this method has several disadvantages, since it corrects by acquired fatty tissue. Our aim was to analyze the value of ...

    Authors: Sergio Gamaza-Chulián, Fátima González-Testón, Enrique Díaz-Retamino, Francisco M. Zafra-Cobo and Eva González-Caballero
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2023 21:16
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  45. In addition to proatherogenic properties, lipoprotein (a) (Lp(a)) has also pro-inflammatory, antifibrinolytic and prothrombogenic features. The aim of the current study was to identify the predictors of functi...

    Authors: Andreja Rehberger Likozar and Miran Šebeštjen
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2023 21:15
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  46. Increased collagen content of the myocardium modifies tissue reflectivity and integrated backscatter (IBS) indexes are suggested as markers of myocardial fibrosis (MF). We sought to assess the correlation betw...

    Authors: Maria Rita Lima, João Abecasis, Rita Reis Santos, Sérgio Maltês, Pedro Lopes, António Ferreira, Regina Ribeiras, Maria João Andrade, Miguel Abecasis, Victor Gil, Sância Ramos and Nuno Cardim
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2023 21:14
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  47. One of the most helpful aspects of intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) implementation in electrophysiological studies (EPS) is the real-time visualisation of catheters and cardiac structures. In this prospecti...

    Authors: Blerim Luani, Maksim Basho, Ammar Ismail, Thomas Rauwolf, Sven Kaese, Ndricim Tobli, Alexander Samol, Katharina Pankraz, Alexander Schmeisser, Marcus Wiemer, Rüdiger C. Braun-Dullaeus and Conrad Genz
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2023 21:13
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  48. Conventional approach to myocardial strain analysis relies on a software designed for the left ventricle (LV) which is complex and time-consuming and is not specific for right ventricular (RV) and left atrial ...

    Authors: Gui-juan Peng, Shu-yu Luo, Xiao-fang Zhong, Xiao-xuan Lin, Ying-qi Zheng, Jin-feng Xu, Ying-ying Liu and Li-xin Chen
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2023 21:12
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  49. Myocardial work acquired by echocardiography has emerged as a novel method to evaluate myocardial function. We investigated global and segmental myocardial work in hypertension (HT) among patients with differe...

    Authors: Huimei Huang, Liyun Fu, Qinyun Ruan, Ziling You and Lei Yan
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2023 21:11
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  50. Noninvasive right ventricular (RV) myocardial work (RVMW) determined by echocardiography is a novel indicator used to estimate RV systolic function. To date, the feasibility of using RVMW has not been verified...

    Authors: Jian Wu, Xinyi Huang, Weibin Chen, Yiruo Tang, Xu Chen, Xinyu Wang, Bo Jing, Yuanyuan Sun, Kunhui Huang, Qiumei Gao, Xueming Liu and Maolong Su
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2023 21:10
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