Response to Letter

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

  • Liu, MD Xi ,
  • Lv, MD Faqin ,
  • Liu, MD Ji-Bin
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  • 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 date: 2020-06-01

  Online published: 2020-07-02

Cite this article

Liu, MD Xi , Lv, MD Faqin , Liu, MD Ji-Bin . Reply to Dr. Rajendram’s Letter to Editor: “Point of Care Ultrasound During the Covid-19 Pandemic Should Screen for Inter-Atrial Shunt”[J]. ADVANCED ULTRASOUND IN DIAGNOSIS AND THERAPY, 2020 , 4(2) : 157 -158 . DOI: 10.37015/AUDT.2020.200054

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