The Dilemma of Exertional Dyspnea and Diagnosis of Heart Failure: Convergent and Discriminant Validity.

JACC Cardiovasc Imaging

Brigham Health Heart and Vascular Center and the Center for Advanced Heart Disease, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

Published: May 2019

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