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  1. To resolve the current shortage of donor hearts, we established the Adonhers protocol. An upward shift of the donor age cut-off limit (from the present 55 to 65 years) is acceptable if a stress echo screening ...

    Authors: Daniele Franchi, Davide Cini, Giorgio Arpesella, Sonia Gherardi, Italo Calamai, Giuseppe Barletta, Serafina Valente, Emilio Pasanisi, Stefania Sansoni, Caterina Ricci, Walter Serra, Eugenio Picano and Tonino Bombardini
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2010 8:20
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  3. Acute pulmonary embolism (PE) is a common disease which frequently results in life-threatening right ventricular (RV) failure. High-risk PE, presenting with hypotension, shock, RV dysfunction or right heart th...

    Authors: Bernd Hewing, Leyli Ghaeni, Henryk Dreger, Eva M Fallenberg, Alexander Panda, Gert Baumann and Adrian C Borges
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2010 8:18
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  4. To assess the reliability of fetal heart volume measurement by three-dimensional sonography (3DUS) using the eXtended Imaging Virtual Organ Computer-aided AnaLysis (XI VOCAL) method.

    Authors: Enoch Q Barreto, Hérbene F Milani, Edward Araujo Júnior, Karina K Haratz, Liliam C Rolo, Luciano M Nardozza, Hélio A Guimarães Filho and Antonio F Moron
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2010 8:17
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  5. We aimed to compare the incremental value of contrast myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) for the detection of intermediate versus severe coronary artery stenosis during dipyridamole-atropine echocardiography (...

    Authors: Nicola Gaibazzi, Fausto Rigo, Angelo Squeri, Fabrizio Ugo and Claudio Reverberi
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2010 8:16
    Content type: Review Published on:

  6. Structural myocardial abnormalities have been extensively documented in hypothyroidism. Experimental studies in animal models have also shown involvement of thyroid hormones in gene expression of myocardial co...

    Authors: Minna MD Romano, Léa MZ Maciel, Oswaldo C Almeida-Filho, Antonio Pazin-Filho, André Schmidt and Benedito C Maciel
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2010 8:15
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  7. The combination of early transmitral inflow velocity and mitral annular tissue Doppler imaging (E/Em ratio) is widely applied to noninvasively estimate left ventricular (LV) filling pressures. However E/Em rat...

    Authors: Matteo Cameli, Matteo Lisi, Sergio Mondillo, Margherita Padeletti, Piercarlo Ballo, Charilaos Tsioulpas, Sonia Bernazzali and Massimo Maccherini
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2010 8:14
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  8. Various structural anomalies of the left ventricular papillary muscles have been observed in recent years. Many of these have been linked to electrocardiographic aberrations.

    Authors: James Ker
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2010 8:13
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  9. Biventricular pacing (BiP) is an effective treatment in systolic heart failure (HF) patients with prolonged QRS. However, approximately 35% of the patients receiving BiP are classified as non-responders. The a...

    Authors: Magnus Edner, Margareta Ring and Tooomas Särev
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2010 8:12
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  10. Dynamic intraventricular obstruction has been observed in patients with left ventricular ballooning syndrome (LVBS) and has been hypothesized as a possible mechanism of the syndrome. The aim of this study was ...

    Authors: Mario Previtali, Rita Camporotondo, Alessandra Repetto and Stefania Panigada
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2010 8:11
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  12. We describe a case of a patient with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy and cardiac conduction abnormalities who presented a strong family history of sudden cardiac death. Genetic screening of lamin A/C gene re...

    Authors: Nicoletta Botto, Simona Vittorini, Maria Giovanna Colombo, Andrea Biagini, Umberto Paradossi, Giovanni Aquaro and Maria Grazia Andreassi
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2010 8:9
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  13. Several studies have shown that common carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) is increased after radiotherapy (RT) to the head and neck. However, further studies are needed to define the exact mechanism of radia...

    Authors: Maria Elena Gianicolo, Emilio Antonio Luca Gianicolo, Francesco Tramacere, Maria Grazia Andreassi and Maurizio Portaluri
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2010 8:8
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  14. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is one of the most common inherited cardiomyopathy. The identification of patients with HCM is sometimes still a challenge. Moreover, the pathophysiology of the disease is com...

    Authors: Maria-Angela Losi, Stefano Nistri, Maurizio Galderisi, Sandro Betocchi, Franco Cecchi, Iacopo Olivotto, Eustachio Agricola, Piercarlo Ballo, Simona Buralli, Antonello D'Andrea, Arcangelo D'Errico, Donato Mele, Susanna Sciomer and Sergio Mondillo
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2010 8:7
    Content type: Review Published on:

  15. Thromboembolism is a major cause of death in cancer patients. The association between paraneoplastic hypercoagulability of oncological patients and long-term central venous catheters (CVC) may result in CVC as...

    Authors: Nuno Cardim, Júlia Toste, Vanessa Carvalho, Igor Nunes, Daniel Ferreira, Vanda Carmelo, Ana SN Oliveira, José Ferro, Sylvie Mariana, Adelaide Almeida, Francisco P Machado and José Roquette
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2010 8:6
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  17. Cor triatriatum is a rare congenital heart defect characterized by the presence of a fibromuscular membrane dividing the left atrium into two distinct chambers. Lipomatous hypertrophy of the atrial septum is a...

    Authors: Pier Paolo Bassareo, Roberto Tumbarello and Giuseppe Mercuro
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2010 8:4
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  18. Isovolumetric acceleration (IVA) is a novel tissue Doppler parameter for the assessment of systolic function. The aim of this study was to evaluate IVA as an early parameter for the detection of right ventricu...

    Authors: Sebastian Schattke, Fabian Knebel, Andrea Grohmann, Henryk Dreger, Friederike Kmezik, Gabriela Riemekasten, Gert Baumann and Adrian C Borges
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2010 8:3
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  19. Opening of an occluded infarct related artery reduces infarct size and improves survival in acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). In this study we performed tissue Doppler analysis (peak strain, di...

    Authors: Lene Rosendahl, Peter Blomstrand, Lars Brudin, Tim Tödt and Jan E Engvall
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2010 8:2
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  20. This study was conducted to assess the accuracy of harmonic imaging 2D-transthoracic echocardiography (2D-TTE) segmental analysis compared to surgical findings, in degenerative mitral regurgitation (MR).

    Authors: Giovanni Minardi, Paolo Giuseppe Pino, Carla Clotilde Manzara, Giovanni Pulignano, Giulio Giuseppe Stefanini, Giuseppe Nicola Viceconte, Stefania Leonetti, Andrea Madeo, Carlo Gaudio and Francesco Musumeci
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2010 8:1
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  21. Since cardiovascular diseases are associated with high mortality and generally undiagnosed before the onset of clinical findings, there is a need for a reliable tool for early diagnosis. Carotid intima-media t...

    Authors: Ugur Coskun, Ahmet Yildiz, Ozlem B Esen, Murat Baskurt, Mehmet A Cakar, Kadriye O Kilickesmez, Lutfu A Orhan and Seyma Yildiz
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:59
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  22. Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) may be used for direct inspection of various parts of the main coronary arteries for detection of coronary stenoses and occlusions. We aimed to assess the feasibility of TT...

    Authors: Johnny Vegsundvåg, Espen Holte, Rune Wiseth, Knut Hegbom and Torstein Hole
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:58
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  23. Secondary or functional mitral regurgitation (FMR) represents an increasing feature of mitral valve disease characterized by abnormal function of anatomically normal leaflets in the context of the impaired fun...

    Authors: Riccardo Bigi, Lauro Cortigiani, Francesco Bovenzi and Cesare Fiorentini
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:57
    Content type: Review Published on:

  25. The assessment of regional volumes is an option for analysis of the response of LV segments to interventions such as revascularization or cell therapy. We sought to compare regional volumes from 3D-echocardiog...

    Authors: Carly Jenkins and Thomas H Marwick
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:55
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  26. Repair of anterior leaflet prolapse is technically more challenging and this might influence outcomes as compared to the repair of posterior leaflet prolapse in patients undergoing surgical correction of mitra...

    Authors: Laureta Sulcaj, Antonio Rizza, Mattia Glauber, Giuseppe Trianni, Cataldo Palmieri, Marcello Ravani, Alban Dibra, Stefano Maffei and Sergio Berti
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:54
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  27. 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...

    Authors: Eva Maret, Tim Todt, Lars Brudin, Eva Nylander, Eva Swahn, Jan L Ohlsson and Jan E Engvall
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:53
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  28. 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 b...

    Authors: Bita Sadigh, Miguel Quintana, Christer Sylvén, Margareta Berglund and Lars Åke Brodin
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:52
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  29. Tricuspid Annular Plane Systolic Excursion (TAPSE) has independent prognostic value in heart failure patients but may be influenced by left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction. The present study assessed the as...

    Authors: Jesper Kjaergaard, Kasper K Iversen, Dilek Akkan, Jacob Eifer Møller, Lars V Køber, Christian Torp-Pedersen and Christian Hassager
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:51
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  31. B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) is increased in post-cardiac surgery patients, however the mechanisms underlying BNP release are still unclear. In the current study, we aimed to assess the relationship betwee...

    Authors: Alessandro Salustri, Elena Cerquetani, Mara Piccoli, Guglielmo Pastena, Alfredo Posteraro, Elisabetta Amici, Salvatore La Carrubba, Sherif Bakir and Wael Abdulrahman Al Mahmeed
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:49
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  32. Transthoracic echocardiography left ventricular wall thickness is often increased in master athletes and it results by intense physical training. Left Ventricular Hypertrophy can also be due to a constant pres...

    Authors: Giorgio Galanti, Loira Toncelli, Francesca Del Furia, Laura Stefani, Brunello Cappelli, Alessio De Luca and Maria Concetta Roberta Vono
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:48
    Content type: Technical notes Published on:

  33. In this case report we describe a rare case of right atrium myxoma that coexisted with antiphospholipid syndrome in a young woman. We describe the unusual findings and diagnostic challenges combined with a rev...

    Authors: Christos Pliakos, Eleni Alexiadou, Symeon Metallidis, Theodossis S Papavramidis, Stergios Kapoulas, Konstantinos Sapalidis and Pavlos Nikolaidis
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:47
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  34. 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 ...

    Authors: Henryk Dreger, Adrian C Borges, Bruno Ismer, Sebastian Schattke, Berthold Stegemann, Gert Baumann and Christoph Melzer
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:46
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  35. Atypical cardiac myxomas are a rare occurrence and may present with a variety of clinical manifestations depending on the morphology and location.

    Authors: Nicholas A Charokopos, Efthymia Rouska, Christodoulos Pliakos, Efstathios D Pagourelias, Panagiotis Artemiou, Christoforos Foroulis and Nikolaos Papadopoulos
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:45
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  36. A 25-year-old woman with a history of kidney transplantation for lupus nephritis was referred for the evaluation and management of a mass incidentally found on echocardiography. An oval and pedunculated mass a...

    Authors: Sang-Hoon Seol, Dong-Soo Kim, Yang-Chun Han, Ki-Hun Kim, Young-Bok Kim, Dong-Kie Kim, Ung-Kim, Tae-Hyun Yang, Dae-Kyeong Kim and Doo-Il Kim
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:44
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  37. Echocardiography represents an invaluable diagnostic tool for the detection of intracardiac masses while simultaneously provides information about their size, location, mobility and attachment site as well as ...

    Authors: Fragiskos Parthenakis, Evangelia Nyktari, Alexandros Patrianakos, Antonis Pitsis, Anthoula Asimaki and Panos Vardas
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:43
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  38. During echocardiographic examination, respiration induces cyclic physiological changes of intracardiac haemodynamics, causing normal variations of the right and left ventricle Doppler inflows and outflows and ...

    Authors: Carmen Ginghina, Carmen C Beladan, Madalina Iancu, Andreea Calin and Bogdan A Popescu
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:42
    Content type: Review Published on:

  39. Visual assessment of left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) is often used in clinical routine despite general recommendations to use quantitative biplane Simpsons (BPS) measurements. Even thou quantitative ...

    Authors: Kambiz Shahgaldi, Petri Gudmundsson, Aristomenis Manouras, Lars-Ã…ke Brodin and Reidar Winter
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:41
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  41. Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) improves left ventricular (LV) volumes, mitral regurgitation (MR) severity and symptoms of patients with heart failure (HF). However, ≥ 30% of patients have no significa...

    Authors: Julien Magne, Michelle Dubois, Jean Champagne, Jean G Dumesnil, Philippe Pibarot, François Philippon, Gilles O'Hara and Mario Sénéchal
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:39
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  42. Although echocardiography is commonly used to evaluate cardiac function after MI, CMR may provide more accurate functional assessment but has not been adequately compared with echo. The primary study objective...

    Authors: Blake I Gardner, Scott E Bingham, Marvin R Allen, Duane D Blatter and Jeffrey L Anderson
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:38
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  43. 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 leas...

    Authors: Georgios K Efthimiadis, Christodoulos Pliakos, Efstathios D Pagourelias, Despina G Parcharidou, Georgios Giannakoulas, Vasileios Kamperidis, Stavros Hadjimiltiades, Charalambos Karvounis, Stavros Gavrielidis, Ioannis H Styliadis and Georgios Parcharidis
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:37
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  44. Left ventricular pseudoaneurysm is an uncommon complication after transmural myocardial infarction, occurring when a free wall rupture is contained by adhesions of the overlying pericardium preventing acute ta...

    Authors: Renata Gomes, Maria João Andrade, Miguel Santos, Sónia Lima, Raquel A Gouveia, Manuel M Ferreira and José Aniceto Silva
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:36
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  45. To obtain normal reference ranges and intraobserver variability for right ventricular (RV) volume indexes (VI) and ejection fraction (EF) from apical recordings with real-time 3-dimensional echocardiography (R...

    Authors: Erlend Aune, Morten Baekkevar, Olaf Rodevand and Jan Erik Otterstad
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:35
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  46. The bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) and specific systemic autoimmune diseases are associated with cardiovascular manifestation, including aortic aneurysm. We reported a case of 64 year-old patient with BAV and a h...

    Authors: Ilenia Foffa, Pier Luigi Festa, Lamia Ait-Ali, Annamaria Mazzone, Stefano Bevilacqua and Maria Grazia Andreassi
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:34
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  47. Regular physical activity and exercise are well-known cardiovascular protective factors. Many elderly patients with heart failure find it difficult to exercise on land, and hydrotherapy (training in warm water...

    Authors: Bente Grüner Sveälv, Åsa Cider, Margareta Scharin Täng, Eva Angwald, Dimitris Kardassis and Bert Andersson
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:33
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  48. Brachial artery reactivity in response to shear stress is altered in subjects with hypertension. Since endothelial dysfunction is generalized, we hypothesized that carotid artery (CA) reactivity would also be ...

    Authors: Tasneem Z Naqvi and Hanh K Hyuhn
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:32
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:40

  50. Air pollution is increasingly recognized as an important and modifiable determinant of cardiovascular diseases in urban communities. The potential detrimental effects are both acute and chronic having a strong...

    Authors: Vera Srebot, Emilio AL Gianicolo, Giuseppe Rainaldi, Maria Giovanna Trivella and Rosa Sicari
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:30
    Content type: Review Published on:
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