Recommendations for Chamber Quantification: A Report from the American Society of Echocardiography’s Guidelines and Standards Committee and the Chamber Quantification Writing Group, Developed in Conjunction with the European Association of Echocardiography, a Branch of the European Society of Cardiology

Roberto M. Lang; Michelle Bierig; Richard B. Devereux; Frank A. Flachskampf; Elyse Foster; Patricia A. Pellikka; Michael H. Picard; Mary J. Roman; James Seward; Jack S. Shanewise; Scott D. Solomon; Kirk T. Spencer; Martin St John Sutton; William J. Stewart

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journal article Dec 01, 2005

Recommendations for Chamber Quantification: A Report from the American Society of Echocardiography’s Guidelines and Standards Committee and the Chamber Quantification Writing Group, Developed in Conjunction with the European Association of Echocardiography, a Branch of the European Society of Cardiology

Roberto M. Lang Michelle Bierig Richard B. Devereux Frank A. Flachskampf Elyse Foster Patricia A. Pellikka

Michael H. Picard Mary J. Roman James Seward Jack S. Shanewise Scott D. Solomon

Kirk T. Spencer Martin St John Sutton William J. Stewart

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography Vol. 18 No. 12 pp. 1440-1463 · Elsevier BV

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Published: Dec 01, 2005
Vol/Issue: 18(12)
Pages: 1440-1463
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From Greenberg Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY (P.M.O., K.W., R.B.D.); Section on Biostatistics, Merck Research Labs, West Point, PA (D.A.H.); Department of Medical Biochemistry (A.C.K.L.), Department of Cardiology (S.E.K.), University of Oslo, Ullevål Hospital, Oslo, Norway; Department of Cardiology, Glostrup University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark (K.W.); Department of Cardiology, Faculty of Health, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden (K.W...

Martin St John Sutton

From the Lindner Clinical Trial Center, The Ohio Heart and Vascular Center, and The Christ Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio (E.S.C.); Emory University–Crawford Long Hospital, Atlanta, Ga (A.R.L., J.-P.S., J.M.); Ospedale Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy (L.T., S.G.); Imperial College London and Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK (P.N.); Ohio State University Heart Center, Columbus (W.T.A.); University Hospital, Rennes, France (C.L.); Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands (J.J.B.);...

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Roberto M. Lang, Michelle Bierig, Richard B. Devereux, et al. (2005). Recommendations for Chamber Quantification: A Report from the American Society of Echocardiography’s Guidelines and Standards Committee and the Chamber Quantification Writing Group, Developed in Conjunction with the European Association of Echocardiography, a Branch of the European Society of Cardiology. Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, 18(12), 1440-1463. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.echo.2005.10.005

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