Left Ventricular Outflow Tract and Pulmo
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Ristow, Bryan; Na, Beeya; Ali, Sadia; Whooley, Mary A.; Schiller, Nelson B.
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Article
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2011
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Background: Stroke distance of the left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) or pulmonary artery (PA) is readily measurable by Doppler echocardiography. Stroke distance, calculated by the velocity time integral, expresses the average linear distance traveled by red blood cells during systole. We hypothe