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Echocardiographic Approaches and Protocols for Comprehensive Phenotypic Characterization of Valvular Heart Disease in Mice
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Systolic anterior motion of the mitral valve and three-dimensional echocardiography
Luyang Jiang1, Omair Shakil2, Mario Montealegre-Gallegos2
1Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, Peking University People's Hospital, Beijing, China.
Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia
|November 9, 2013
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