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Echocardiographic reference ranges for normal cardiac chamber size: results from the NORRE study

2014; Oxford University Press; Volume: 15; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1093/ehjci/jet284

2047-2412

Seisyou Kou, Luis Caballero, Raluca Dulgheru, Damien Voilliot, C. De Sousa, George Kacharava, George Athanassopoulos, Daniele Barone, Monica Baroni, Nuno Cardim, José Juan Gómez de Diego, Andreas Hagendorff, C. Henri, Krasimira Hristová, Teresa López‐Fernández, J. Magné, Gonzalo de la Morena, Bogdan A. Popescu, Martin Pěnička, Tolga Özyiğit, D. Rodrigo Carbonero, Alessandro Salustri, Nico Van de Veire, Ralph Stephan von Bardeleben, Dragoș Vinereanu, Jens‐Uwe Voigt, José Luis Zamorano, Erwan Donal, Roberto M. Lang, Luigi P. Badano, Patrizio Lancellotti,

Hemodynamic Monitoring and Therapy

AimsAvailability of normative reference values for cardiac chamber quantitation is a prerequisite for accurate clinical application of echocardiography. In this study, we report normal reference ranges for cardiac chambers size obtained in a large group of healthy volunteers accounting for gender and age. Echocardiographic data were acquired using state-of-the-art cardiac ultrasound equipment following chamber quantitation protocols approved by the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging.