Hype and hope in the use of echocardiography for selection for cardiac resynchronization therapy: the Tower of Babel revisited

Editorial

Thomas H Marwick. Circulation. 2008.

. 2008 May 20;117(20):2573-6.

doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.108.772475.

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Comment on

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