Two-dimensional echocardiography is preferable for measuring left ventricular mass: all that glitters is not a reference standard.
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Adult Echocardiography Laboratory, University of California, San Francisco 94143-0214, USA.
D000465:Algorithms; D000818:Animals; D004452:Echocardiography; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D017379:Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D007089:Image Enhancement; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009929:Organ Size; D011379:Prognosis; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed