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Echocardiography is a noninvasive procedure which illustrates the anatomy of the heart, including valves and valve motion, chamber size, wall motion, and thickness. Doppler echocardiography assesses the severity of valvular regurgitation, gradients across stenotic valves or between cardiac chambers, and the detection of intracardiac shunts.
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Adams, D., Forsberg, E. (2009). Conducting a Cardiac Ultrasound Examination. In: Nihoyannopoulos, P., Kisslo, J. (eds) Echocardiography. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-293-1_2
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