Echocardiographic determination of left ventricular mass in man. Anatomic validation of the method.

DEVEREUX, R; Reichek, Nathaniel

doi:10.1161/01.cir.55.4.613

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Echocardiographic determination of left ventricular mass in man. Anatomic validation of the method.

Published in Circulation • Apr 1, 1977

Authors:

R DEVEREUX

Nathaniel Reichek

Abstract

An accurte echocardiographic (E) method for determination of left ventricular mass (LVM) was derived from systematic analysis of the relationship between the antemortem left ventricular echogram and postmortem anatomic LVM in 34 adults with a wide range of anatomic LVM (101-505 g). No subject had ma...

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Medicine

Cardiology

Ventricular aneurysm

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