Need for a Global Definition of Normative Echo Values-Rationale and Design of the World Alliance of Societies of Echocardiography Normal Values Study (WASE)

Affiliations

¹ MedStar Health Research Institute, Washington, DC. Electronic address: federico.asch@medstar.net.
² University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.
³ American Society of Echocardiography, Durham, North Carolina.
⁴ Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.
⁵ MedStar Health Research Institute, Washington, DC.
⁶ University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.

Editorial

Federico M Asch et al. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2019 Jan.

. 2019 Jan;32(1):157-162.e2.

doi: 10.1016/j.echo.2018.10.006. Epub 2018 Nov 17.

¹ MedStar Health Research Institute, Washington, DC. Electronic address: federico.asch@medstar.net.
² University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.
³ American Society of Echocardiography, Durham, North Carolina.
⁴ Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.
⁵ MedStar Health Research Institute, Washington, DC.
⁶ University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.

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Recommendations for cardiac chamber quantification by echocardiography in adults: an update from the American Society of Echocardiography and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging.
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