Assessment of Flail Mitral Leaflets by Dynamic Three-Dimensional Echocardiographic Imaging
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Acknowledgements
We gratefully acknowledge the technical assistance of Toshikazu Yagi, the sonographer, for in the acquisition and reconstruction of 3-dimensional echo images in this study.
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