Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
Volume 23, Issue 3 , Pages 315-323 , March 2010

Ventricular Rotation Is Independent of Cardiac Looping: A Study in Mice With Situs Inversus Totalis Using Speckle-Tracking Echocardiography

  • Lowell H. Frank, MD

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Developmental Biology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
    • Children's National Heart Institute, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Lowell H. Frank, MD, Children's National Medical Center, Division of Cardiology, 111 Michigan Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20010.
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  • Qing Yu, MD

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Developmental Biology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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  • Richard Francis, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Developmental Biology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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  • Xin Tian, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Office of Biostatistics Research, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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  • Rajeev Samtani

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Developmental Biology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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  • David J. Sahn, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon
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  • Linda Leatherbury, MD

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Developmental Biology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
    • Children's National Heart Institute, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC
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  • Cecilia W. Lo, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Developmental Biology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
    • Department of Developmental Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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 This work was supported by grant ZO1-HL005701 from the Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (Bethesda, MD).

PII: S0894-7317(09)01107-9

doi: 10.1016/j.echo.2009.11.024

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
Volume 23, Issue 3 , Pages 315-323 , March 2010

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