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Figure 1 Representative example of the thoracic ultrasonograms of a decompensated heart failure patient with bilateral pleural effusion. Accumulation of pleural effusion (*) is noted adjacent to the liver (L) in the right hemithorax (panel A) and adjacent to the spleen (S) in the left hemithorax (panel B).
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