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  1. The study was designed to evaluate whether the preserved coronary flow reserve (CFR) 72 hours after reperfused acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is associated with less microvascular dysfunction and is predict...

    Authors: Egle Sadauskiene, Diana Zakarkaite, Ligita Ryliskyte, Jelena Celutkiene, Alfredas Rudys, Sigita Aidietiene and Aleksandras Laucevicius
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:16
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  2. Feasibility of noninvasive monitoring of cardiac function after surgically induced ischemic cardiomyopathy with tissue Doppler and non-Doppler 2D strain echocardiography in rats.

    Authors: Sebastian Holinski, Fabian Knebel, Georg Heinze, Wolfgang Konertz, Gert Baumann and Adrian C Borges
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:15
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  3. The aim of this study was to verify the benefits and limitations of repeated bedside echocardiographic examinations in children during mechanical ventilation. For the purposes of this study, we selected the da...

    Authors: Jiri Kobr, Jiri Fremuth, Katerina Pizingerova, Lumir Sasek, Petr Jehlicka, Sarka Fikrlova and Zdenek Slavik
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:14
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  4. Aortic stiffness is an independent predictor factor for cardiovascular risk. Different methods for determining pulse wave velocity (PWV) are used, among which the most common are mechanical methods such as Sph...

    Authors: Jordi Calabia, Pere Torguet, Maria Garcia, Isabel Garcia, Nadia Martin, Bernat Guasch, Diana Faur and Martí Vallés
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:13
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  5. We report a case of a 52-year-old patient with dilated cardiomyopathy who presented with worsening heart failure. Two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography and real-time three dimensional transthoracic ec...

    Authors: Wenjuan Bai, Hui Li, Qing Zhang and Li Rao
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:12
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  6. We have previously reported strain dyssynchrony index assessed by two-dimensional speckle tracking strain, and a marker of both dyssynchrony and residual myocardial contractility, can predict response to cardi...

    Authors: Kazuhiro Tatsumi, Hidekazu Tanaka, Takayuki Tsuji, Akihiro Kaneko, Keiko Ryo, Kohei Yamawaki, Alaa MS Omar, Yuko Fukuda, Kazuko Norisada, Kensuke Matsumoto, Tetsuari Onishi, Akihiro Yoshida, Hiroya Kawai and Ken-ichi Hirata
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:11
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  7. The determination of coronary flow reserve (CFR) is an essential concept at the moment of decision-making in ischemic heart disease. There are several direct and indirect tests to evaluate this parameter. In t...

    Authors: Ezequiel H Forte, Maria G Rousse and Jorge A Lowenstein
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:10
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  8. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and antiretroviral treatment are associated with metabolic and cardiovascular complications that potentially increase the risk of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular...

    Authors: Pierfrancesco Grima, Marcello Guido, Roberto Chiavaroli, Antonella De Donno, Mariangela Tana and Antonella Zizza
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:9
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  9. 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 ...

    Authors: Kazuko Norisada, Hidekazu Tanaka, Tetsuari Onishi, Akihiro Kaneko, Takayuki Tsuji, Kohei Yamawaki, Keiko Ryo, Kazuhiro Tatsumi, Kensuke Matsumoto, Natsuko Miura, Jun Saegusa, Yukiko Morinaga, Shigeo Hara, Hiroya Kawai and Ken-ichi Hirata
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:8
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  10. Valvular strands, well-delineated filiform masses, attached to cardiac valve edges are associated with cerebral embolism and stroke. Strokes, caused by emboli from valvular strands, tend to occur among younger...

    Authors: James Ker
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:7
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  11. For many years the lung has been considered off-limits for ultrasound. However, it has been recently shown that lung ultrasound (LUS) may represent a useful tool for the evaluation of many pulmonary conditions...

    Authors: Luna Gargani
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:6
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  12. Tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) is a noninvasive echocardiographic method for the diagnosis of diastolic dysfunction in patients with varying degrees of aortic stenosis (AS). Little is known however, on the utili...

    Authors: Davinder S Jassal, Kapil M Bhagirath, Erin Karlstedt, Matthew Zeglinski, Jean G Dumesnil, Koon K Teo, James W Tam and Kwan L Chan
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:5
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  13. A 53-year-old man with depressed ejection fraction (EF) of 35% and QRS width of 88 ms at rest was admitted to our institution with a complaint of exertional chest discomfort and dyspnea. During treadmill exerc...

    Authors: Hidekazu Tanaka, Mana Hiraishi, Tatsuya Miyoshi, Takayuki Tsuji, Akihiro Kaneko, Keiko Ryo, Kohei Yamawaki, Yuko Fukuda, Kazuko Norisada, Kazuhiro Tatsumi, Kensuke Matsumoto, Hiroya Kawai and Ken-ichi Hirata
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:4
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  14. Partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection (PAPVC) is an extremely rare congenital condition where one or more of the pulmonary veins are connected to the venous circulation. Although initially suspected wi...

    Authors: Roman Nepomuceno, Matthew Zeglinski, Jordyn Lerner, Wlodzimierz Czarnecki, Iain DC Kirkpatrick, Jacek Strzelczyk and Davinder S Jassal
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:3
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  15. Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) is an invasive modality which provides cross-sectional images of a coronary artery. In these images both the lumen and outer vessel wall can be identified and accurate estimatio...

    Authors: Christos V Bourantas, Scot Garg, Katerina K Naka, Attila Thury, Angela Hoye and Lampros K Michalis
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:2
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  16. Acute myocarditis may mimic myocardial infarction, since affected patients complain of "typical" chest pain, the ECG changes are identical to those observed in acute coronary syndromes, and serum markers are i...

    Authors: Marcello Costantini, Giuseppe Oreto, Alberto Albanese, Anna Ranieri, Giovanni De Fabrizio, iovanni Sticchi, Antonio Lauretti, Sergio Capone, Cristina Tritto, Claudio Fachechi, Realino Renna, Antonio Montinaro and Eugenio Picano
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:1
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  17. The goal of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of suspected hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) in a population of teenagers undergoing screening echocardiography for the detection of HCM.

    Authors: Mohammad Reza Movahed, Deborah Strootman, Sharon Bates and Sudhakar Sattur
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2010 8:54
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  18. Mitral annular disjunction (MAD) consists of an altered spatial relation between the left atrial wall, the attachment of the mitral leaflets, and the top of the left ventricular (LV) free wall, manifested as a...

    Authors: Pedro Carmo, Maria J Andrade, Carlos Aguiar, Rui Rodrigues, Raquel Gouveia and José A Silva
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2010 8:53
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  19. Biologic valves can sometimes have a small closure or leakage backflow jet originating from the central coaptation point. This is physiologic regurgitation that usually only requires monitoring, and not treatm...

    Authors: Masataka Kuroda, Takashi Sudo, Shiro Koizuka, Koichi Nishikawa, Yuji Kadoi and Shigeru Saito
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2010 8:52
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  20. 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...

    Authors: Maurizio Galderisi, Alessandro Santoro, Marco Versiero, Vincenzo Schiano Lomoriello, Roberta Esposito, Rosa Raia, Francesca Farina, Pier Luigi Schiattarella, Manuela Bonito, Marinella Olibet and Giovanni de Simone
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2010 8:51
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  23. When a physiological (exercise) stress echo is scheduled, interest focuses on wall motion segmental contraction abnormalities to diagnose ischemic response to stress, and on left ventricular ejection fraction ...

    Authors: Tonino Bombardini, Davide Cini, Giorgio Arpesella and Eugenio Picano
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2010 8:48
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  24. The crista terminalis is a normal anatomical structure within the right atrium that is not normally visualised in the standard views obtained while performing a transthoracic echocardiogram. In this case repor...

    Authors: Alessandro Salustri, Sherif Bakir, Amer Sana, Peter Lange and Wael Abdulrahman Al Mahmeed
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2010 8:47
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  25. Acute ischaemic stroke is associated with alteration in systemic markers of vascular function. We measured forearm vascular function (using forearm flow mediated dilatation) to clarify whether recent acute isc...

    Authors: Christopher D Beer, Kathleen Potter, David Blacker, Leonard Arnolda, Graeme J Hankey and Ian B Puddey
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2010 8:46
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  26. Three dimensional echocardiography (3DE) approaches the accuracy of cardiac magnetic resonance in measuring left ventricular (LV) volumes and ejection fraction (EF). The multibeat modality in comparison to sin...

    Authors: Kambiz Shahgaldi, Aristomenis Manouras, Anna Abrahamsson, Petri Gudmundsson, Lars-Åke Brodin and Reidar Winter
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2010 8:45
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  27. A Gerbode -type defect is a ventricular septal defect communicating directly between the left ventricle and right atrium. It is usually congenital, but rarely is acquired, as a complication of endocarditis. Th...

    Authors: Nereida Xhabija, Edvin Prifti, Iris Allajbeu and Fatmir Sula
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2010 8:44
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  28. Echocardiographic evaluation of left ventricular (LV) strain and strain rate (SR) by 2D speckle tracking may be useful tools to assess chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) severity as well as ...

    Authors: Nicholas Olson, Jason P Brown, Andrew M Kahn, William R Auger, Michael M Madani, Thomas J Waltman and Daniel G Blanchard
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2010 8:43
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  29. Pericardial adhesions are a pathophysiological marker of constrictive pericarditis (CP), which impairs cardiac filling by limiting the total cardiac volume compliance and diastolic filling function. We studied...

    Authors: Panupong Jiamsripong, Mohsen S Alharthi, Anna M Calleja, Eileen M McMahon, Minako Katayama, John Westerdale, Michele Milano, Jeffrey J Heys, Farouk Mookadam and Marek Belohlavek
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2010 8:42
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  30. 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.

    Authors: Surasak Jantarasaengaram and Kittipong Vairojanavong
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2010 8:41
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  31. Echocardiography is the method of choice when one wishes to examine myocardial function. Qualitative assessment of the 2D grey scale images obtained is subjective, and objective methods are required. Speckle T...

    Authors: Albin Stigö, Peter Johansen, Morten Ø Jensen, Kim Sivesgaard, Hans Nygaard and Erik Sloth
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2010 8:40
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  32. 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 Do...

    Authors: Kirk W Beach, Robert O Bergelin, Daniel F Leotta, Jean F Primozich, P Max Sevareid, Edward T Stutzman and R Eugene Zierler
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2010 8:39
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  33. Upright exercise stress echocardiography (SE) induces significant intraventricular gradient (IVG) and systolic anterior motion (SAM) in a large proportion of symptomatic athletes, who may therefore benefit fro...

    Authors: Carlos Cotrim, Luís R Lopes, Ana R Almeida, Rita Miranda, Almeida G Ana, Hortense Cotrim, José P Andrade, Eugenio Picano and Manuel Carrageta
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2010 8:38
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  34. Carcinoid is a rare malignancy originating from enterochromaffin cells and is clinically characterized by flushing, diarrhea and bronchospasm, due to secretion of vasoactive substances. A dreaded complication ...

    Authors: Constantina Aggeli, Ioannis Felekos, Christina Kazazaki, Dimitrios Giannopoulos, Athanasios Kartalis, Christos Pitsavos and Christodoulos Stefanadis
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2010 8:37
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  36. Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is generally associated with a low to moderate increase of the left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF). In some patients, however, LVEF improves remarkably and reaches...

    Authors: Henryk Dreger, Adrian C Borges, Gert Baumann and Christoph Melzer
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2010 8:35
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  37. Y- graft (Y-G) is a graft formed by the Left Internal Mammary Artery (LIMA) connected to the Left Anterior Descending Artery (LAD) and by a free Right Internal Mammary Artery (RIMA) connected to LIMA and to a ...

    Authors: Antonio Auriti, Vincenzo Loiaconi, Christian Pristipino, Francesco Saverio Leonardi Cattolica, Roberto Cini, Vincenzo Guido, Cinzia Cianfrocca, Salvatore Greco, Filomena Agostini, Mario Staibano and Massimo Santini
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2010 8:34
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  38. Extrinsic left atrial compression caused by a displaced, crooked descending thoracic aorta is rare. This anomaly may mimic primary cardiac tumors or metastatic neoplasms from the first look.

    Authors: Zhen-Yu Liao, Jui-Peng Tsai, Jen-Yuan Kuo and Chung-Lieh Hung
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2010 8:33
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  39. Early surgery is recommended for asymptomatic severe mitral regurgitation (MR), because of increased postoperative left ventricular (LV) dysfunction in patients with late surgery. On the other hand, recent rep...

    Authors: Oner Ozdogan, Alper Yuksel, Cemil Gurgun, Meral Kayikcioglu, Oguz Yavuzgil and Cahide S Cinar
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2010 8:32
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  40. After a transient ischemic episode, the subendocardial region is more severely injured than outer subepicardial layers and may regain a proportionately greater degree of mechanical function in the longitudinal...

    Authors: Giuseppe Caracciolo, Mackram F Eleid, Haruhiko Abe, Nisha Bhatia, F David Fortuin, Susan Wilansky, Scipione Carerj and Partho P Sengupta
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2010 8:31
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  41. Severe obesity is associated with an increased risk of coronary artery disease (CAD). Bariatric surgery is an effective procedure for long term weight management as well as reduction of comorbidities. Preopera...

    Authors: Sylvie Legault, Mario Sénéchal, Sébastien Bergeron, Marie Arsenault, Michel Tessier, Jean Guimond and Paul Poirier
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2010 8:30
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  42. Increased muscle mass index of the left ventricle (LVMi) is an independent predictor for the development of symptoms in patients with asymptomatic aortic stenosis (AS). While the onset of clinical symptoms and...

    Authors: Wilfried Dinh, Werner Nickl, Jan Smettan, Frank Kramer, Thomas Krahn, Thomas Scheffold, Michael Coll Barroso, Hilmar Brinkmann, Till Koehler, Mark Lankisch and Reiner Füth
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2010 8:29
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  43. Congestive hepatomegaly might be the first sign for pulmonary hypertension. Apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) value obtained with quantitative diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) is affec...

    Authors: Yuksel Dogan, Aliye Soylu, Ozgur Kilickesmez, Tuna Demirtas, Kadriye Orta Kilickesmez, Sebahat Nacar Dogan, Gulay Eren, Isa Sevindir, Nurgul Yasar, Sule Poturoglu and Kenan Sonmez
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2010 8:28
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  44. Patients with advanced idiopathic pulmonary artery hypertension have often a chronic pericardial effusion. It is the result of increased transudation and impaired re-absorption due to elevated venous pressure....

    Authors: Tomaž Marš, Helena Mikolavčič, Barbara Salobir and Matej Podbregar
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2010 8:27
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  45. The anterior mitral leaflet cleft is an unusual congenital lesion most often encountered in association with other congenital heart defects. The isolated anterior leaflet cleft is quite a rare anomaly and is u...

    Authors: Giovanni Minardi, Stefania Leonetti, Leda Bernardi, Giovanni Pulignano, Paolo Giuseppe Pino, Lidia Boccardi, Carla Manzara and Francesco Musumeci
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2010 8:26
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  46. Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) in patients with systemic sclerosis is associated with a poor prognosis, but this can be improved by early disease detection. Abnormal pulmonary and cardiac function can b...

    Authors: Walter Serra, Alfredo Chetta, Daniele Santilli, Flavio Mozzani, Pier Paolo Dall'Aglio, Dario Olivieri, Maria Alberta Cattabiani, Diego Ardissino and Tiziano Gherli
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2010 8:25
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  47. The introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has dramatically changed the prognosis of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, with a significant decline in morbidity and mortality.

    Authors: Pierfrancesco Grima, Marcello Guido, Roberto Chiavaroli and Antonella Zizza
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2010 8:24
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  48. Primary heart neoplasms are rare occurring with an estimated incidence of 0.0017-0.19%. Myxoma is the most prevalent primary heart tumor. The right atrium is an unusual localization, occurring only in 15-20% o...

    Authors: Olga Azevedo, Jorge Almeida, Tânia Nolasco, Rosa Medeiros, Jorge Casanova, Carla Bartosch, João Almeida and Paulo Pinho
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2010 8:23
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  49. The nonlinear mechanical properties of internal organs and tissues may be measured with unparalleled precision using ultrasound imaging with phase-sensitive speckle tracking. The many potential applications of...

    Authors: Dae Woo Park, Michael S Richards, Jonathan M Rubin, James Hamilton, Grant H Kruger and William F Weitzel
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2010 8:22
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  50. Echocardiographic ratio of peak tricuspid regurgitant velocity to the right ventricular outflow tract time-velocity integral (TRV/TVI rvot) was presented as a reliable non-invasive method of estimating pulmona...

    Authors: Vincent Roule, Fabien Labombarda, Arnaud Pellissier, Rémi Sabatier, Thérèse Lognoné, Sophie Gomes, Emmanuel Bergot, Paul Milliez, Gilles Grollier and Eric Saloux
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2010 8:21
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