Transthoracic echocardiography for imaging of the different coronary artery segments: a feasibility study.

abstract：:Echocardiography is one of the most important diagnostic testing in cardiology. The presence of a breast implant overlying heart can cause significant impairment of the echocardiographic acoustic window. Breast implants are increasing in popularity in the USA and the Federal Drug and Food Administration (FDA) just app...

journal_title：Cardiovascular ultrasound

authors： Movahed MR

更新日期：2007-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dual imaging stress echocardiography, combining the evaluation of wall motion and coronary flow reserve (CFR) on the left anterior descending artery (LAD), and computed tomography coronary angiography (CTCA) are established techniques for assessing prognosis in chest pain patients. In this study we compared ...

journal_title：Cardiovascular ultrasound

authors： Ciampi Q,Rigo F,Grolla E,Picano E,Cortigiani L

更新日期：2015-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Correlate the anatomic features of atrioventricular septal defect with echocardiographic images. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Sixty specimen hearts were studied by sequential segmental analysis. Echocardiograms were performed on 34 patients. Specimen hearts with findings equivalent to those of echocardiographic ima...

journal_title：Cardiovascular ultrasound

authors： Espinola-Zavaleta N,Muñoz-Castellanos L,Kuri-Nivón M,Keirns C

更新日期：2008-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The contractile response of patients with heart failure (HF) may be assessed by exercise stress echocardiography (ESE)-derived indexes. We sought to test whether ESE parameters are useful to identify the risk of adverse left ventricular (LV) remodeling in patients with chronic HF and reduced or mildly reduce...

journal_title：Cardiovascular ultrasound

authors： Fabiani I,Pugliese NR,Santini C,Miccoli M,D'Agostino A,Rovai I,Mazzola M,Pedrinelli R,Dini FL

更新日期：2019-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Echocardiography has the ability to noninvasively explore hemodynamic variables during pharmacologic or exercise stress test in patients with heart failure. In this review, we detail some important potential applications of stress echocardiography in patients with heart failure. In patients with coronary artery diseas...

journal_title：Cardiovascular ultrasound

authors： Agricola E,Oppizzi M,Pisani M,Margonato A

更新日期：2004-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Left ventricular wall stress has been investigated in a variety of populations, but the effect of food intake has not been evaluated. We assessed whether left ventricular wall stress is affected by food intake in healthy subjects. METHODS:Twenty-three healthy subjects aged 25.6 ± 4.5 years were investigated....

journal_title：Cardiovascular ultrasound

authors： Gårdinger Y,Hlebowicz J,Björgell O,Dencker M

更新日期：2014-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A 63-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with a complaint of right lateroabdominal pain. He was diagnosed with metastatic colon cancer, and then developed multiple brain embolic infarctions 7 days after admission. Transesophageal echocardiography showed that mobile, echo-dense masses were attached to the anterio...

journal_title：Cardiovascular ultrasound

authors： Norisada K,Tanaka H,Onishi T,Kaneko A,Tsuji T,Yamawaki K,Ryo K,Tatsumi K,Matsumoto K,Miura N,Saegusa J,Morinaga Y,Hara S,Kawai H,Hirata K

更新日期：2011-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A history of previous cardiac disease increases the maternal mortality risk by as much as 100%. There is no consensus on the absolute contraindications to vaginal delivery in valvular heart disease, but central regional anesthesia is traditionally considered contraindicated in patients with severe aortic ste...

journal_title：Cardiovascular ultrasound

authors： Driul L,Meroi F,Sala A,Delrio S,Pavoni D,Barbariol F,Londero A,Dogareschi T,Spasiano A,Vetrugno L,Bove T

更新日期：2020-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Cardiac resynchronization therapy is proven efficacious in patients with heart failure (HF). Presence of biventricular HF is associated with a worse prognosis than having only left ventricular (LV) HF and pacing might deteriorate heart function. The aim of the study was to assess a possible significance of ri...

journal_title：Cardiovascular ultrasound

authors： Edner M,Ring M,Henriksson P

更新日期：2011-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Left ventricular free wall rupture occurs in up to 10% of the in-hospital deaths following myocardial infarction. It is mainly associated with posterolateral myocardial infarction and its antemortem diagnosis is rarely made. Contrast echocardiography has been increasingly used for the evaluation of myocardia...

journal_title：Cardiovascular ultrasound

authors： Trindade ML,Tsutsui JM,Rodrigues AC,Caldas MA,Ramires JA,Mathias Junior W

更新日期：2006-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The percentage of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) patients who are in high risk for Sudden Death (SD) constitutes only a minority of all HCM population but the incidence of SD in this subset is high (at least 5% annually). The identification of this small but important proportion of high risk HCM patients ...

journal_title：Cardiovascular ultrasound

authors： Efthimiadis GK,Pliakos C,Pagourelias ED,Parcharidou DG,Giannakoulas G,Kamperidis V,Hadjimiltiades S,Karvounis C,Gavrielidis S,Styliadis IH,Parcharidis G

更新日期：2009-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Use of preoperative echocardiography may help to identify patients with increased cardiac risk, who may benefit from modification of perioperative plan. The objective of our study was to evaluate the reliability of preoperative focused cardiac ultrasound (FoCUS) performed by an anaesthetist with basic ultras...

journal_title：Cardiovascular ultrasound

authors： Andruszkiewicz P,Sobczyk D,Gorkiewicz-Kot I,Kowalik I,Gelo R,Stach O

更新日期：2015-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While echocardiographic grading of left ventricular (LV) diastolic dysfunction (DD) is used every day, the relationship between echocardiographic DD grade and hemodynamic abnormalities is uncertain. METHODS:We identified 460 consecutive patients who underwent transthoracic echocardiography within 24 h of el...

journal_title：Cardiovascular ultrasound

authors： Grant AD,Negishi K,Negishi T,Collier P,Kapadia SR,Thomas JD,Marwick TH,Griffin BP,Popović ZB

更新日期：2015-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the last recent years a new percutaneous procedure, the MitraClip, has been validated for the treatment of mitral regurgitation. MitraClip procedure is a promising alternative for patients unsuitable for surgery as it reduces the risk of death related to surgery ensuring a similar result. Few data are pre...

journal_title：Cardiovascular ultrasound

authors： Guarracino F,Ferro B,Baldassarri R,Bertini P,Forfori F,Giannini C,Di Bello V,Petronio AS

更新日期：2013-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The developments in echocardiography or ultrasound cardiography (UCG) have improved our clinical capabilities. However, advanced hardware and software capabilities have resulted in UCG facilities of dubious clinical benefits. Is tissue Doppler echocardiography (TDE) is one such example? PRESENTATION OF THE ...

journal_title：Cardiovascular ultrasound

authors： Thomas G

更新日期：2004-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of the study was to perform a feature tracking analysis on cine magnetic resonance (MR) images to elucidate if functional measurements of the motion of the left ventricular wall may detect scar defined with gadolinium enhanced MR.Myocardial contraction can be measured in terms of the velocity, displa...

journal_title：Cardiovascular ultrasound

authors： Maret E,Todt T,Brudin L,Nylander E,Swahn E,Ohlsson JL,Engvall JE

更新日期：2009-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although echocardiography has been incorporated into the diagnostic algorithm of patients with suspected infective endocarditis (IE), systematic usage in clinical practice remains ill defined. To determine the diagnostic accuracy of detecting vegetations using harmonic transthoracic echocardiography (hTTE) a...

journal_title：Cardiovascular ultrasound

authors： Jassal DS,Aminbakhsh A,Fang T,Shaikh N,Embil JM,Mackenzie GS,Tam JW

更新日期：2007-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:In vivo and in vitro evidence suggests that adenosine and its agonists play key roles in the process of ischemic preconditioning. The effects of low-dose adenosine infusion on ischemic preconditioning have not been thoroughly studied in humans. AIMS:We hypothesised that a low-dose adenosine infusion could...

journal_title：Cardiovascular ultrasound

authors： Sadigh B,Quintana M,Sylvén C,Berglund M,Brodin LA

更新日期：2009-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Established methods to determine asynchrony suffer from high intra- and interobserver variability and failed to improve patient selection for cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). Thus, there is a need for easy and robust approaches to reliably assess cardiac asynchrony. METHODS AND RESULTS:We performed ...

journal_title：Cardiovascular ultrasound

authors： Dreger H,Borges AC,Ismer B,Schattke S,Stegemann B,Baumann G,Melzer C

更新日期：2009-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The effect of aggressive medical therapy on quantitative coronary plaque burden is not generally known, especially in ethnic Chinese. AIMS:We reasoned that Cardiac CT could conveniently quantify early coronary atherosclerosis in our patient population, and hypothesized that serial observation could differen...

journal_title：Cardiovascular ultrasound

authors： Goh VK,Lau CP,Mohlenkamp S,Rumberger JA,Achenbach S,Budoff MJ

更新日期：2010-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tissue Doppler Imaging (TDI) is a sensible and feasible method to detect longitudinal left ventricular (LV) systolic dysfunction (LVSD) in patients with diabetes mellitus, hypertension or ischemic heart disease. In this study, we hypothesized that longitudinal LVSD assessed by TDI predicted inducible myocard...

journal_title：Cardiovascular ultrasound

authors： Cherubini A,Cioffi G,Mazzone C,Faganello G,Barbati G,Tarantini L,Russo G,Stefenelli C,Humar F,Grande E,Fisicaro M,Pandullo C,Di Lenarda A

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and antiretroviral treatment are associated with metabolic and cardiovascular complications that potentially increase the risk of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease in this population. Measurement of arterial wall thickness has been used as a surrogate of ...

journal_title：Cardiovascular ultrasound

authors： Grima P,Guido M,Chiavaroli R,De Donno A,Tana M,Zizza A

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary embolism is a common cardiovascular emergency, but it is still often misdiagnosed due to its unspecific clinical symptoms. Elevated troponin concentrations are associated with greater morbidity and mortality in patients with pulmonary embolism. Right ventricular ischemia due to increased right ventricular af...

journal_title：Cardiovascular ultrasound

authors： Goslar T,Podbregar M

更新日期：2010-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A high incidence of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction and increased risk of cardiovascular events have been reported in patients with diabetes mellitus. Sodium glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors selectively inhibit kidney glucose and sodium reabsorption, and cardiovascular benefits of SGLT2 inhibitors bey...

journal_title：Cardiovascular ultrasound

authors： Matsumura K,Sugiura T

更新日期：2019-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The morning hours are associated with increased cardiovascular (CV) risk, and vascular endothelial function (VEF) is a strong predictor of CV disease. A diurnal rhythm in VEF has been established but the morning variation in VEF is not well-documented. Thus, we tested if VEF is impaired across the vulnerable...

journal_title：Cardiovascular ultrasound

authors： Thosar SS,Wiggins CC,Shea SA,Wallace JP

更新日期：2015-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Blood flow between the right and left ventricles is subject to the continuity equation and systolic ventricular interdependence. Quantification of this relationship might aid in understanding inter-ventricular function. The purpose of this study was to evaluate and quantify ventricular interdependence by dir...

journal_title：Cardiovascular ultrasound

authors： Bruhl SR,Chahal M,Khouri SJ

更新日期：2011-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Theoretically, a cross-sectional image of any cardiac planes can be obtained from a STIC fetal heart volume dataset. We described a method to display 11 fetal echocardiographic planes from STIC volumes. METHODS:Fetal heart volume datasets were acquired by transverse acquisition from 200 normal fetuses at 15...

journal_title：Cardiovascular ultrasound

authors： Jantarasaengaram S,Vairojanavong K

更新日期：2010-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Miniaturization has evolved in the creation of a pocket-size imaging device which can be utilized as an ultrasound stethoscope. This study assessed the additional diagnostic power of pocket size device by both experts operators and trainees in comparison with physical examination and its appropriateness of use in comp...

journal_title：Cardiovascular ultrasound

authors： Galderisi M,Santoro A,Versiero M,Lomoriello VS,Esposito R,Raia R,Farina F,Schiattarella PL,Bonito M,Olibet M,de Simone G

更新日期：2010-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Non-ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is the most common cardiomyopathy worldwide, with significant mortality. Correct evaluation of the patient's myocardial function has important clinical significance in the diagnosis, therapeutic effect assessment and prognosis in non-ischemic DCM patients. This study...

journal_title：Cardiovascular ultrasound

authors： Duan F,Xie M,Wang X,Li Y,He L,Jiang L,Fu Q

更新日期：2012-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Mitral annulus calcification (MAC) is a common finding on echocardiographic examination. The goal of this study was to evaluate associations between MAC and cardiac abnormalities using a large echocardiographic database. METHODS:For this study we retrospectively reviewed 24,380 echocardiograms performed f...

journal_title：Cardiovascular ultrasound

authors： Movahed MR,Saito Y,Ahmadi-Kashani M,Ebrahimi R

更新日期：2007-03-14 00:00:00