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ReviewClinical research in cardiology : official journal of the German Cardiac Society2025

How can common errors in left heart echocardiography be avoided? An expert proposalby the German Working Group of Cardiovascular Ultrasound.

Andreas Hagendorff, Stephan Stöbe, Andreas Helfen, Fabian Knebel, Ertunc Altiok, Wolfgang Fehske, Tarek Bekfani, Ole-A Breithardt, Aydan Ewers, Ali Hamadanchi and 17 more

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Review in Clinical research in cardiology : official journal of the German Cardiac Society, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

27 authors.

Andreas HagendorffDepartment of Cardiology, University Hospital Leipzig AöR, Leipzig, Germany. andreas.hagendorff@medizin.uni-leipzig.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6288-7565
Stephan StöbeDepartment of Cardiology, University Hospital Leipzig AöR, Leipzig, Germany.
Andreas HelfenMedizinische Klinik II - Kardiologie, Krankenhaus St. Elisabeth Halle, Halle, Germany.
Fabian KnebelDepartment of Cardiology, Katholische St. Paulus Gesellschaft, St.-Marien-Hospital Lünen, Lünen, Germany.
Ertunc AltiokDepartment of Internal Medicine II, Sana Klinikum Lichtenberg, CardiologyBerlin, Germany.
Wolfgang FehskeDepartment of Cardiology, Angiology, and Intensive Medicine, University Hospital Aachen, Aachen, Germany.
Tarek BekfaniKardiologische Praxis Köln, Cologne, Germany.
Ole-A BreithardtDepartment of Cardiology and Angiology, University Hospital Magdeburg AöR, Magdeburg, Germany.
Aydan EwersKardiologische Privatpraxis Kassel, Kassel, Germany.
Ali HamadanchiDepartment of Cardiology and Angiology, BG University Hospital Bergmannsheil Bochum, Bochum, Germany.
Henrik Ten FreyhausDepartment of Cardiology, University of Jena, Jena, Germany.
Dariush HaghiDepartment of Internal Medicine III, Cardiology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Jan KnierimKardiologische Praxisklinik Ludwigshafen-Akademische Lehrpraxis of the University of Heidelberg, Ludwigshafen, Germany.
Sebastian KruckDepartment of Internal Medicine and Cardiology, Berlin, Germany.
Karsten LenkDepartment of Cardiology, University Hospital Leipzig AöR, Leipzig, Germany.
Joscha KandelsDepartment of Cardiology, University Hospital Leipzig AöR, Leipzig, Germany.
Nicolas MerkePraxis Für Kardiologie Cardio Centrum Ludwigsburg, Ludwigsburg, Germany.
Raluca-Ileana MincuDepartment of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Deutsches Herzzentrum Charité Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Elena Romero DortaDepartment of Cardiology and Angiology, University of Essen, Essen, Germany.
Tobias RufDepartment of Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University of Berlin, Deutsches Herzzentrum Charité Berlin, Campus Mitte, Berlin, Germany.
Christoph SinningDepartment of Cardiology, Center of Cardiology, Heart Valve Center, University Medical Center Mainz, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
Jens-Gerrit KlugeDepartment of Cardiology, University Heart and Vascular Center Hamburg, German Centre of Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Hamburg, Germany.
Roland BrandtAbteilung Kardiologie Und Internistische Intensivmedizin, Ev. Krankenhaus Göttingen-Weende, Göttingen, Germany.
Maximilian von RoederDepartment of Cardiology, Kerckhoff Klinik GmbH, Bad Nauheim, Germany.
Jens-Uwe VoigtDepartment of Cardiology, Heart Center Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
Sebastian EwenDepartment of Cardiovascular Diseases, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, and, Catholic University Leuven , Louvain, Belgium.
Bernhard HaringDepartment of Cardiology, University Heart Center Freiburg, Bad Krotzingen, Freiburg, Germany.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Echocardiography is the most commonly used imaging modality in cardiology and serves as a crucial first step in diagnosis and therapeutic decision making. This expert proposal aims to address methodological requirements in order to make the correct diagnosis and prevent diagnoses from being overlooked due to improper use.

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Basic echocardiographyCardiac volumesCardiac wall thicknessConventional parametersStrain measurements

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PMID41143902

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