Pre-implant right ventricular function might be an important predictor of the response to cardiac resynchronization therapy.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ultrasound contrast agents (UCAs) allow the enhancement of vascular definition, thereby providing more diagnostic information. LK565 is a new second-generation UCA based on synthetic polymers of aspartic acid which is eliminated from the blood stream via phagocytosis. LK565 forms very stable air-filled micro...

journal_title：Cardiovascular ultrasound

authors： Funke B,Maerz HK,Okorokow S,Polata S,Lehmann I,Sack U,Wild P,Geisler T,Zotz RJ

更新日期：2004-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Myocardial deformation imaging using speckle-tracking echocardiography to assess global longitudinal strain (GLS) is today considered a more sensitive measure of left ventricular (LV) systolic function than ejection fraction. General anesthesia and positive pressure ventilation (PPV) are known to change the ...

journal_title：Cardiovascular ultrasound

authors： Dalla K,Bech-Hanssen O,Ricksten SE

更新日期：2019-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To explore the association between the ratio of tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion (TAPSE) and pulmonary arterial systolic pressure (PASP), and long- and short-term outcomes in mechanically ventilated septic shock patients. METHODS:Septic shock patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) were...

journal_title：Cardiovascular ultrasound

authors： Zhang H,Lian H,Zhang Q,Chen X,Wang X,Liu D

更新日期：2020-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We investigated longitudinal right ventricular (RV) function assessed using speckle-tracking strain echocardiography in patient with myocardial infarction (MI), and identified the contributing factors for RV dysfunction. METHODS:We retrospectively studied 71 patients with old MI (the OMI group) and 45 norma...

journal_title：Cardiovascular ultrasound

authors： Konishi K,Dohi K,Tanimura M,Sato Y,Watanabe K,Sugiura E,Kumagai N,Nakamori S,Nakajima H,Yamada T,Onishi K,Nakamura M,Nobori T,Ito M

更新日期：2013-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Global and regional left ventricular (LV) systolic dysfunction is a marker of coronary artery disease (CAD), which is conventionally assessed using two-dimensional echocardiography. Tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) has emerged as an adjunct tool in the diagnosis of regional wall motion abnormalities from CAD. We performed...

journal_title：Cardiovascular ultrasound

authors： Agarwal R,Gosain P,Kirkpatrick JN,Alyousef T,Doukky R,Singh G,Umscheid CA

更新日期：2012-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction (LVEF) assessed by two-dimensional echocardiography (2DE) is the most widely used parameter for clinical decision-making, but reproducibility and accuracy problems remain. We evaluated the usefulness of a novel training program based on cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR)...

journal_title：Cardiovascular ultrasound

authors： Nabeshima Y,Namisaki H,Teshima T,Kurashige Y,Kakio A,Fukumitsu A,Otsuji Y,Takeuchi M

更新日期：2019-10-31 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

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：INTRODUCTION:Accidental hypothermia is a condition associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Hypothermia has been reported to affect left ventricular systolic and diastolic function. However, most of the data come from animal experimental studies. AIM OF THE STUDY:The purpose of the present study was to ass...

journal_title：Cardiovascular ultrasound

authors： Darocha T,Sobczyk D,Kosiński S,Jarosz A,Gałązkowski R,Nycz K,Drwiła R

更新日期：2015-07-15 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：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: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：INTRODUCTION:Serial monitoring of patients participating in clinical trials of carotid artery therapy requires noninvasive precision methods that are inexpensive, safe and widely available. Noninvasive ultrasonic duplex Doppler velocimetry provides a precision method that can be used for recruitment qualification, pre-...

journal_title：Cardiovascular ultrasound

authors： Beach KW,Bergelin RO,Leotta DF,Primozich JF,Sevareid PM,Stutzman ET,Zierler RE

更新日期：2010-09-07 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:There is strong evidence that left atrial (LA) size is a prognostic marker in a variety of heart diseases. Recently, real-time three-dimensional echocardiography (RT3DE) has been reported as a useful tool for studying the phasic changes of the left atrial volumes. The aim of this study was to investigate the...

journal_title：Cardiovascular ultrasound

authors： Aggeli C,Felekos I,Poulidakis E,Aggelis A,Tousoulis D,Stefanadis C

更新日期：2011-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:This review article summarizes the results of histopathological studies to assess heart failure in humans. Different histopathological features underlying the clinical manifestations of heart failure are reviewed. In addition, the present role of echocardiographic techniques in assessing the failing heart is briefly s...

journal_title：Cardiovascular ultrasound

authors： Baroldi G,Bigi R,Cortigiani L

更新日期：2007-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We hypothesized that longitudinal pulmonary arterial deformation during the cardiac cycle reflects pulmonary arterial capacitance. To examine this hypothesis, we assessed whether tissue Doppler-derived pulmonary annular motion could serve as a novel way to evaluate pulmonary arterial capacitance in pediatric...

journal_title：Cardiovascular ultrasound

authors： Hayabuchi Y,Ono A,Homma Y,Kagami S

更新日期：2016-09-07 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:Almost all attempts to improve patient selection for cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) using echo-derived indices have failed so far. We sought to assess: the performance of homemade software for the automatic quantification of integral 3D regional longitudinal strain curves exploring left ventricular ...

journal_title：Cardiovascular ultrasound

authors： Fournet M,Bernard A,Marechaux S,Galli E,Martins R,Mabo P,Daubert JC,Leclercq C,Hernandez A,Donal E

更新日期：2017-06-17 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：:Persistent left superior vena cava is rare but important congenital vascular anomaly. It results when the left superior cardinal vein caudal to the innominate vein fails to regress. It is most commonly observed in isolation but can be associated with other cardiovascular abnormalities including atrial septal defect, b...

journal_title：Cardiovascular ultrasound

authors： Goyal SK,Punnam SR,Verma G,Ruberg FL

更新日期：2008-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is an acute cardiac syndrome characterized by transient LV regional wall motion abnormalities (with peculiar apical ballooning appearance), chest pain or dyspnea, ST-segment elevation and minor elevations of cardiac enzyme levels CASE PRESENTATION:A 68-year-old woman was admitted to...

journal_title：Cardiovascular ultrasound

authors： Lisi M,Zacà V,Maffei S,Casucci F,Maggi M,Lunghetti S,Aitiani P,Carrera A,Castellani D,Favilli R,Pierli C,Mondillo S

更新日期：2007-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aortic valve stenosis (AS) is the most common primary valvular heart disease leading to surgical or percutaneous aortic valve replacement (AVR) in Europe and its prevalence keeps growing. While other risk factors in severe AS are well documented, little is known about the prognostic value of left atrial (LA)...

journal_title：Cardiovascular ultrasound

authors： Ferreira J,Gonçalves V,Marques-Alves P,Martins R,Monteiro S,Teixeira R,Gonçalves L

更新日期：2021-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In patients with advanced non-ischemic cardiomyopathy (NIC), right-sided cardiac disturbances has prognostic implications. Right coronary artery (RCA) flow pattern and flow reserve (CFR) are not well known in this setting. The purpose of this study was to assess, in human advanced NIC, the RCA phasic flow pa...

journal_title：Cardiovascular ultrasound

authors： Graziosi P,Ianni B,Ribeiro E,Perin M,Beck L,Meneghetti C,Mady C,Martinez Filho E,Ramires JA

更新日期：2007-09-26 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：:In the standard accepted concept, contractility is the intrinsic ability of heart muscle to generate force and to shorten, independently of changes in the preload or afterload with fixed heart rates. At molecular level the crux of the contractile process lies in the changing concentrations of Ca2+ ions in the myocardi...

journal_title：Cardiovascular ultrasound

authors： Bombardini T

更新日期：2005-09-08 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：:The growing need for coronary evaluation has raised interest in non-radioactive, non-invasive monitoring systems. In particular, radiation exposure during coronary investigations has been shown to be a possible cause of an enhanced risk of secondary tumors. Literature search has indicated that transthoracic echocardio...

journal_title：Cardiovascular ultrasound

authors： Labombarda F,Castelnuovo S,Goularas D,Sirtori CR

更新日期：2016-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Quadricuspid aortic valve is a rare congenital malformation of the aortic valve. Its diagnosis is often missed even with the use of transthoracic echocardiogram. Many of these patients progress to aortic incompetence later in life, hence requiring surgical intervention. In the case described in this report, a 61-year-...

journal_title：Cardiovascular ultrasound

authors： Xiao Z,Meng W,Zhang E

更新日期：2010-09-02 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