Journal
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY
Volume 12, Issue 5, Pages 339-353Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/ejechocard/jer051
Keywords
Echocardiography; Clinical trials; Cardiac chambers; Cardiac haemodynamics; Native valves; Prosthetic valves; Quality control
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- GE
- Siemens
- Visual Sonics
- Epsilon Imaging
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The European Association of Echocardiography (EAE) has developed the present recommendations to assist clinical researchers in the design, implementation, and conduction of echocardiographic protocols for clinical trials and to guarantee their quality. Clinical trials should be designed and conducted based on the knowledge of the pathophysiology of the clinical condition studied, the technical characteristics of the echo-Doppler modalities, and the variability of the tested parameters. These procedures are important to choose the most reliable and reproducible techniques and parameters. Quality assurance must be guaranteed by adequate training of peripheral site operators to obtain optimal echo-Doppler data and by using a core laboratory for accurate and reproducible data analysis.
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