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March 2026 Vol. 126, No. 3

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Response to: Regarding “Where are the Black men in osteopathic medical schools?”

Michael Megafu, DO, MPH
Letters to the Editor

Regarding “Where are the Black men in osteopathic medical schools?”

Forrest Bohler, BS; and Allison R. Garden, BS
Cardiopulmonary Medicine

Estimating ejection fraction and heart failure severity using cardiac apex angles: a multiphase pilot study

Schafer Paladichuk, BS; Graydon Dietrich, BS; Austin Evanovich, BS; Dane Warp, DO; Ronald F. Walser, DPT; Dan Selski, PhD; and Jesse Cone, MD
Heart failure affects 6.7 million American adults. The gold standard for heart failure assessment is echocardiography to determine the ejection fraction (EF). Evaluating the cardiac apex angle may be a possible way to estimate EF; however, there is a lack of investigation into this relationship. This study aimed to evaluate whether a correlation exists between the cardiac apex angle and EF.

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