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Management of chronic heart failure: Role of home echocardiography in monitoring care programs
Silvia Soreca, Sergio Aprile, Andrea Cardone, Giovanni Carella, Biagio Fimiani, Franco Guarnaccia, Giosuè Santoro, Giovanni Zito, Associazioni Regionali Cardiologi Ambulatoriali, Campania, Via M. Testa 8, 84127 Salerno, Italy
Valentina Apuzzi, Giorgio Bosso, Antonio Valvano, Ugo Oliviero, Department of Clinical Medicine and Cardiovascular Sciences, Federico II University, Via S. Pansini 5, 80131 Naples, Italy
Author contributions: Soreca S, Aprile S, Cardone A, Carella G, Fimiani B, Guarnaccia F and Santoro G performed the home echocardiography and the home monitoring program of the CHF patients; Apuzzi V, Bosso G and Valvano A provided the centralized lecture of the examinations and performed the statistical analysis; Soreca S, Zito G and Oliviero U developed the protocol and wrote the manuscript.
Correspondence to: Ugo Oliviero, MD, Department of Clinical Medicine and Cardiovascular Sciences, Federico II University, Via S. Pansini 5, 80131 Naples, Italy. ugo.oliviero@unina.it
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Received: December 28, 2011
Revised: February 19, 2012
Accepted: February 26, 2012
Published online: March 26, 2012
Revised: February 19, 2012
Accepted: February 26, 2012
Published online: March 26, 2012
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