American Society of Echocardiography Recommendations for the Use of Echocardiography in Rheumatic Heart Disease.

J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth

Department of Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia, National Heart Centre, Singapore; Department of Anaesthesiology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore. Electronic address:

Published: July 2023

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