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Real prevalence of pulmonary right-to-left shunt according to genotype in patients with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia: a transthoracic contrast echocardiography study.
Chest - 1 Oct 2010
van Gent Marco W F, Post Martijn C, Snijder Repke J, Westermann Cornelis J J, Plokker Herbert W M, Mager Johannes J
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BACKGROUND: Transthoracic contrast echocardiography (TTCE) can detect pulmonary right-to-left shunting (RLS) and is used to screen for pulmonary arteriovenous malformations (PAVMs) in patients with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT). We studied the prevalence and size of pulmonary RLS in...
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