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Reference values for left ventricular volumes with real-time 3-dimensional echocardiography. Scand Cardiovasc J 2010;44(1):24-30. 21. Bernard A, Addetia K, Dulgheru R, Caballero L, Sugimoto T, Akhaladze N, et al. 3D echocardiographic reference ranges for normal left ventricular volumes and strain: results from the EACVI NORRE study. Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Imaging 2017;18(4):475-83. References the manuscript: Saraiva RM, Mediano MFF, Holanda MT, Costa AR. Critical revision of the manuscript for intellectual content: Saraiva RM, Scolin EMB, Pacheco NP, Bouret ME, Mediano MFF, Costa AR. Potential Conflict of Interest No potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported. Sources of Funding This study was funded by Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (grant E-26/201.561/2014 and E-26/110.176/2014 to Dr Saraiva), Programa Estratégico de Apoio à Pesquisa em Saúde /Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Brazil (grant 407655/2012-3 and 421843/2017-9 to Dr Saraiva), and Cnpq (grant 305088/2013-0 to Dr Saraiva). Study Association This study is not associatedwith any thesis or dissertationwork. Ethics approval and consent to participate This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Instituto de Pesquisa Clínica Evandro Chagas under the protocol number 0059.0.009.000-09. All the procedures in this study were in accordance with the 1975 Helsinki Declaration, updated in 2013. Informed consent was obtained from all participants included in the study. 943