Vortex formation time: an emerging echocardiographic index of left ventricular filling efficiency?
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- 11 January 2012
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in European Heart Journal – Cardiovascular Imaging
- Vol. 13 (5), 367-369
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ejechocard/jer311
Abstract
M.B. is supported by a Grant EB009111 from the National Institutes of Health and a Grand-in-Aid Award 09GRNT2060631 from the American Heart Association.Keywords
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