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Biatrial and right ventricular deformation imaging: Implications of the recent EACVI consensus document in the

Samir K Saha1, Anatoli Kiotsekoglou1, Aasha S Gopal2

  • 1Department of Clinical Physiology, Umeå University Hospital, Umeå, Sweden.

Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.)
|October 15, 2019
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Keywords:
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