Financial Disclosures
This study used a Siemens ACUSON SC2000 echocardiogram machine for all
TEE aquisitions. The automated protocol referenced above used a Siemens
TEE image acquisition program called eSie ScanTM. Our
manuscript includes a Siemens employee as an author who assisted with
the data acquisition and analysis. Other than a Siemens employee as an
author, no other funding or financial support was provided by Siemens or
any other company/institution.