Recommendations for Cardiac Chamber Quantification by Echocardiography in Adults: An Update from the American Society of Echocardiography and the European Association of, Cardiovascular Imaging.

Roberto M. Lang, MD, FASE, FESC, Luigi P. Badano, MD, PhD, FESC, Victor Mor-Avi, PhD, FASE, Jonathan Afilalo, MD, MSc, Anderson Armstrong, MD, MSc, Laura Ernande, MD, PhD, Frank A. Flachskampf, MD, FESC, Elyse Foster, MD, FASE, Steven A. Goldstein, MD, Tatiana Kuznetsova, MD, PhD, Patrizio Lancellotti, MD, PhD, FESC, Denisa Muraru, MD, PhD, Michael H. Picard, MD, FASE, Ernst R. Rietzschel, MD, PhD, Lawrence Rudski, MD, FASE, Kirk T. Spencer,MD, FASE,Wendy Tsang, MD, and Jens-Uwe Voigt, MD, PhD, FESC, Chicago, Illinois; Padua, Italy; Montreal, Quebec and Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Baltimore, Maryland; Cr_eteil, France; Uppsala, Sweden; San Francisco, California; Washington, District of Columbia; Leuven, Li_ege, and Ghent, Belgium; Boston, Massachusetts

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