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Unreliability of cardiothoracic ratio as a marker of left ventricular impairment: comparison with radionuclide ventriculography and echocardiography

BACKGROUND—The size of the heart assessed by cardiothoracic ratio on chest radiography is often used as a screening test for the presence of heart failure and for assessing its severity.
METHODS—We compared cardiothoracic ratio (CTR), left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) from radionuclide ventr...

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Main Authors: Clark, A., Coats, A.
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: BMJ Group 2000
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1741581/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10775282
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1136/pmj.76.895.289
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