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Transthoracic Echocardiography in Mice
Published on: May 28, 2010
[Transthoracic echocardiographic assessment of a biventricular assist device]
Piotr Dobrowolski1, Piotr Szymański, Grzegorz Religa
1Klinika Wad Wrodzonych Serca, Instytut Kardiologii, Warszawa. p.dobrowolski@ikard.pl
Kardiologia Polska
|August 4, 2009
Abstract:
We present the results of standard transthoracic echocardiographic assessment of a biventricular assist device implanted in a patient with progressive heart failure caused by acute giant-cell myocarditis.
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