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To investigate the impacts of carotid plaque and intima-media thickness (IMT) on future vascular events (VEs) in the patients with acute ischemic stroke.
Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2017 15:19
Published on: 24 July 2017
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Left ventricular outflow tract velocity time integral (LVOT VTI) is a measure of cardiac systolic function and cardiac output. Heart failure patients with low cardiac output are known to have poor cardiovascul...
Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2017 15:18
Published on: 3 July 2017
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Identification of prenatal ventriculoarterial connections in fetuses with conotruncal anomalies (CTA) remains one of the greatest challenges for sonographers performing screening examinations. Herein, we propo...
Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2017 15:17
Published on: 23 June 2017
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The availability of ultra-miniaturized pocket ultrasound devices (PUD) adds diagnostic power to the clinical examination. Information on accuracy of ultrasound with handheld units in immediate differential dia...
Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2017 15:16
Published on: 19 June 2017
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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 aut...
Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2017 15:15
Published on: 17 June 2017
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This study is aimed at investigating myocardial multi-directional systolic deformation in hypertensive with different left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), and exploring its contribution to LVEF.
Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2017 15:14
Published on: 12 June 2017
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Compound strain imaging is a novel method to noninvasively evaluate arterial wall deformation which has recently shown to enable differentiation between fibrous and (fibro-)atheromatous plaques in patients wit...
Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2017 15:13
Published on: 18 May 2017
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Quality of life is as important as survival in heart failure (HF) patients. Controversies exist with regards to echocardiographic determinants of exercise capacity in HF, particularly in patients with preserve...
Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2017 15:12
Published on: 26 April 2017
Review
To systematically review currently available cardiac shock-wave therapy (CSWT) studies in humans and perform meta-analysis regarding anti-anginal efficacy of CSWT.
Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2017 15:11
Published on: 12 April 2017
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Myocardial performance index (MPI) has been investigated in a variety of populations, but the effect of food intake has not been evaluated. We assessed whether myocardial performance index is affected by food ...
Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2017 15:10
Published on: 5 April 2017
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Mean or maximal intima-media thickness (IMT) is commonly used as surrogate endpoint in intervention studies. However, the effect of normalization by surrounding or median IMT or by diameter is unknown. In addi...
Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2017 15:9
Published on: 4 April 2017
Technical notes
Three major mechanisms contribute to right ventricular (RV) pump function: (i) shortening of the longitudinal axis with traction of the tricuspid annulus towards the apex; (ii) inward movement of the RV free w...
Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2017 15:8
Published on: 27 March 2017
Review
Stress echocardiography is an established technique for the assessment of extent and severity of coronary artery disease. The combination of echocardiography with a physical, pharmacological or electrical stre...
Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2017 15:7
Published on: 21 March 2017
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The goal of this study was to determine if left ventricular (LV) global longitudinal strain (GLS) predicts heart failure (HF) readmission in patients with acute decompensated heart failure.
Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2017 15:6
Published on: 15 March 2017
Erratum
Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2017 15:5
Published on: 13 March 2017
The original article was published in Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2016 14:42
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There is today no established approach to estimate right ventricular ejection fraction (RVEF) using 2D transthoracic echocardiography (TTE). The aim of this study was to evaluate a new method for RVEF calculat...
Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2017 15:4
Published on: 7 March 2017
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Stress echocardiography (SE) has an established role in evidence-based guidelines, but recently its breadth and variety of applications have extended well beyond coronary artery disease (CAD). We lack a prospe...
Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2017 15:3
Published on: 18 January 2017
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Ultrasound exam as a screening test for abdominal aorta (AA) can visualize the aorta in 99% of patients and has a sensitivity and specificity approaching 100% in screening settings for aortic aneurysm. Pocket ...
Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2017 15:2
Published on: 13 January 2017
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We evaluated echocardiographic area-length methods to measure left ventricle (LV) volumes and ejection fraction (EF) in parasternal short axis views in comparison with cardiac computed tomography (CT) in pigs ...
Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2017 15:1
Published on: 9 January 2017
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Transthoracic echocardiography-assessed coronary flow velocity reserve (CFVR) evaluates coronary microvascular arterial function. Coronary flow velocity measurements at baseline and during hyperemia are used t...
Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2016 14:48
Published on: 6 December 2016
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We investigated the influence of geographical predisposition on the spatial distribution and composition of coronary plaques.
Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2016 14:47
Published on: 22 November 2016
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Regular physical exercise determines a progressive increase of the cardiac mass known as adaptive hypertrophy. Up to now, two morphological echocardiographic heart patterns of athletes have been described by M...
Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2016 14:46
Published on: 17 November 2016
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The myocardial wall of the left ventricle is a complex, multilayered structure and is not homogenous. The aim of this study was to determine longitudinal strain (LS) in the three myocardial layers in normal pr...
Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2016 14:45
Published on: 10 November 2016
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The aim of this study was to evaluate the utility of adding quantitative assessments of cardiac function from echocardiography to clinical factors in predicting the outcome of patients with acute pulmonary emb...
Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2016 14:44
Published on: 28 October 2016
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Increased left atrial (LA) dimensions are known to be a risk factor in predicting cardiovascular events and mortality and to be one key diagnostic tool to assess diastolic dysfunction. Currently, LA measuremen...
Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2016 14:43
Published on: 7 October 2016
