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<ul><li>Reference for normal wall thickness: <cite style="font-style:normal"> (2012). "Normal Left Ventricular Myocardial Thickness for Middle-Aged and Older Subjects With Steady-State Free Precession Cardiac Magnetic Resonance". <i>Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging</i> <b>5</b> (4): 500–508. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier" class="extiw" title="w:Digital object identifier">DOI</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.112.973560">10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.112.973560</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Serial_Number" class="extiw" title="en:International Standard Serial Number">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/issn/1941-9651">1941-9651</a>.</cite></li></ul><ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"><li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"><div style="width: 155px">
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