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Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine
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From: Global left ventricular function assessment by ECG-gated multi-detector CT (MDCT): revised role in relation to 2D transthoracic echocardiography

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Echocardiography technique. a 2D echocardiography; apical 4-chamber view. b 2D echocardiography; apical 5-chamber view. c 2D echocardiography; parasternal short-axis view. d 2D echocardiography; parasternal long-axis view. e 2D echocardiography short-axis left parasternal view of the heart with M mode measurements of the interventricular septal thickness, left ventricular diameter, and left ventricular posterior wall thickness during systole and diastole (RV, right ventricle; LV, left ventricle; RA, right atrium; LA, left atrium; RVOT, right ventricular outflow tract; LVOT, left ventricular outflow tract; AV, aortic valve; IVSd, interventricular septum thickness at end-diastole; LVIDd, left ventricular internal diameter in diastole; LVPWd, left ventricular posterior wall thickness at end-diastolic; IVSs, interventricular septum thickness at end-systole; LVIDs, left ventricular internal diameter at end-systole; LVPWs, left ventricular posterior wall thickness at end-systole)

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