Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
Volume 15, Issue 7 , Pages 715-722 , July 2002

The mechanism of emergence and clinical significance of apically directed intraventricular flow during isovolumic relaxation

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☆ Reprint requests: Nobuyuki Ohte, MD, Third Department of Internal Medicine, Nagoya City University Medical School, 1 Kawasumi, Mizuho-cho, Mizuho-ku, Nagoya 467-8601, Japan (E-mail: ohte@med.nagoya-cu.ac.jp).

PII: S0894-7317(02)00022-6

doi: 10.1067/mje.2002.119113

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
Volume 15, Issue 7 , Pages 715-722 , July 2002

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