Reply to Dr. Rajendram’s Letter to Editor: “Point of Care Ultrasound During the Covid-19 Pandemic Should Screen for Inter-Atrial Shunt”

doi:10.37015/AUDT.2020.200054

Advanced Ultrasound in Diagnosis and Therapy ›› 2020, Vol. 4 ›› Issue (2): 157-158.doi: 10.37015/AUDT.2020.200054

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Reply to Dr. Rajendram’s Letter to Editor: “Point of Care Ultrasound During the Covid-19 Pandemic Should Screen for Inter-Atrial Shunt”

Xi Liu, MD^a, Faqin Lv, MD^b, Ji-Bin Liu, MD^c^,^*()

^a Department of Ultrasound, Air Force Medical Center, Air Force Medical University, Beijing, China
^b Department of Ultrasound, Hainan Hospital of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Sanya, China
^c Editor, AUDT; Department of Radiology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Received:2020-06-01 Online:2020-06-30 Published:2020-07-02
Contact: Ji-Bin Liu, MD, E-mail:ji-bin.liu@jefferson.edu

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Xi Liu, MD, Faqin Lv, MD, Ji-Bin Liu, MD. Reply to Dr. Rajendram’s Letter to Editor: “Point of Care Ultrasound During the Covid-19 Pandemic Should Screen for Inter-Atrial Shunt”. Advanced Ultrasound in Diagnosis and Therapy, 2020, 4(2): 157-158.

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