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Left ventricular global systolic function assessment by echocardiography

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ANNALS OF CARDIAC ANAESTHESIA
Volume 19, Issue 5, Pages S20-S28

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WOLTERS KLUWER MEDKNOW PUBLICATIONS
DOI: 10.4103/0971-9784.192617

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Echocardiography; Intraoperative or intensive care setting; Left ventricular global systolic function

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The left ventricle, with its thickened myocardial walls, unlike the right ventricle has no measurable geometric shape. It has a conical apex and its function quantification, needs intensive, 2D, 3D and M mode transesophageal echocardiography, which is described in this review.

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