Journal:
:iranian journal of radiology
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tolga aksu cardiology department, derince training and research hospital, university of health sciences, kocaeli, turkey; cardiology department, derince training and research hospital, university of health sciences, kocaeli, turkey. tel: +90-5319903278, fax: +90-2623178000
tumer erdem guler cardiology department, derince training and research hospital, university of health sciences, kocaeli, turkey
veli kaya cardiology department, mersin state hospital, mersin, turkey
nurcan arat cardiology department, istanbul bilgi university, faculty of medicine, istanbul, turkey
omac tufekcioglu cardiology department, turkiye yuksek ihtisas education and research hospital, ankara, turkey
conclusion the cv value correlated more closely with low lvef and more accurately indicated an enlarged heart than ca or ctr. this may be due to the fact that an anteroposterior measurement of heart size is included in the former but not the latter two measurements. these study results may help quantify left heart enlargement with greater accuracy than may be obtained from standard cxr. backgro...
