Lung ultrasound: a 'B-line' to the prediction of decompensated heart failure.

Eur Heart J

School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA Section of Cardiology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, USA

Published: April 2016


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