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  1. Tissue Doppler (TD) in pulsed mode (spectral TD) and colour TD are the two modalities today available in tissue velocity echocardiography (TVE). Previous studies have shown poor agreement between these two met...

    Authors: Aristomenis Manouras, Arben Shala, Evangelia Nyktari, Kambiz Shahgaldi, Reidar Winter, Panagiotis Vardas, Lars-Ã…ke Brodin and Jacek Nowak
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:29
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  2. Real-time perfusion (RTP) adenosine stress echocardiography (ASE) can be used to visually evaluate myocardial ischaemia. The RTP power modulation technique angio-mode (AM), provides images for off-line perfusi...

    Authors: Petri Gudmundsson, Kambiz Shahgaldi, Reidar Winter, Magnus Dencker, Mariusz Kitlinski, Ola Thorsson, Ronnie B Willenheimer and Lennart Ljunggren
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:28
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  3. In clinical practice and in clinical trials, echocardiography and scintigraphy are used the most for the evaluation of global left ejection fraction (LVEF) and left ventricular (LV) volumes. Actually, poor qua...

    Authors: Bernard Cosyns, David Haberman, Steven Droogmans, Sandrine Warzée, Philippe Mahieu, Eric Laurent, Marie Moonen, Sophie Hernot and Patrizio Lancellotti
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:27
    Content type: Technical notes Published on:

  4. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is an extremely heterogeneous disease. An under recognized and very often missed subgroup within this broad spectrum concerns patients with left ventricular (LV) apical aneury...

    Authors: Georgios K Efthimiadis, Christodoulos Pliakos, Efstathios D Pagourelias, Despina G Parcharidou, Georgios Spanos, Stylianos Paraskevaidis, Ioannis H Styliadis and Georgios Parcharidis
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:26
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  5. Endothelial dysfunction is thought to be a potential mechanism for the decreased presence of coronary collaterals. The aim of the study was to investigate the association between systemic endothelial function ...

    Authors: Aydan Ongun Ozdemir, Sadi Gulec, Nihal Uslu, Cansın Tulunay Kaya, Cagdas Ozdol, Sibel Turhan, Yusuf Atmaca, Timucin Altin and Cetin Erol
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:25
    Content type: Research Published on:

  6. Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of death in diabetic patients. Although exercise echocardiography (EE) is established as a useful method for diagnosis and stratification of risk for CAD in t...

    Authors: Joselina LM Oliveira, José AS Barreto-Filho, Carla RP Oliveira, Thaiana A Santana, Fernando D Anjos-Andrade, Érica O Alves, Adão C Nascimento-Junior, Thiago JS Góes, Nathalie O Santana, Francis L Vasconcelos, Martha A Barreto, Argemiro D'Oliveira Junior, Roberto Salvatori, Manuel H Aguiar-Oliveira and Antônio CS Sousa
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:24
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  7. We describe popliteal arterial adventitial cystic disease which causes intermittent claudication in a young athletic man, with atypical manifestation, without loss of foot pulses on knee flexion nor murmur in ...

    Authors: Maurizio Taurino, Luigi Rizzo, Nazzareno Stella, Massimo Mastroddi, Fabio Conteduca, Claudia Maggiore and Vittorio Faraglia
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:23
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  8. Cardiac time intervals have been described as a measure of cardiac performance, where prolongation, shortening and delay of the different time intervals have been evaluated as markers of cardiac dysfunction. A...

    Authors: Matilda Larsson, Anna Bjällmark, Jonas Johnson, Reidar Winter, Lars-Åke Brodin and Stig Lundbäck
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:22
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  9. New sensors for intelligent remote monitoring of the heart should be developed. Recently, a cutaneous force-frequency relation recording system has been validated based on heart sound amplitude and timing vari...

    Authors: Tonino Bombardini, Vincenzo Gemignani, Elisabetta Bianchini, Emilio Pasanisi, Lorenza Pratali, Mascia Pianelli, Francesco Faita, Massimo Giannoni, Giorgio Arpesella, Rosa Sicari and Eugenio Picano
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:21
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  10. Metastatic presentation of leiomyosarcoma in the heart is very rare. We present transthoracic echocardiography and combined PET/CT images of a case with a large right ventricular metastasis of leiomyosarcoma. ...

    Authors: Magnus Dencker, Sven Valind and Martin Stagmo
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:20
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  11. Real-time perfusion (RTP) contrast echocardiography can be used during adenosine stress echocardiography (ASE) to evaluate myocardial ischemia. We compared two different types of RTP power modulation technique...

    Authors: Petri Gudmundsson, Kambiz Shahgaldi, Reidar Winter, Magnus Dencker, Mariusz Kitlinski, Ola Thorsson, Lennart Ljunggren and Ronnie B Willenheimer
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:19
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  12. Recent studies have shown that real-time three-dimensional (3D) echocardiography (RT3DE) gives more accurate and reproducible left ventricular (LV) volume and ejection fraction (EF) measurements than tradition...

    Authors: Jøger Hansegård, Stig Urheim, Ketil Lunde, Siri Malm and Stein Inge Rabben
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:18
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  13. Strain, and particularly Longitudinal Peak Systolic Strain (LPSS), plays a role in investigating the segmental and overall contractility of the heart which is a particularly interesting feature in athletes in ...

    Authors: Laura Stefani, Gianni Pedrizzetti, Alessio De Luca, Roberto Mercuri, Gabriele Innocenti and Giorgio Galanti
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:17
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  14. Left atrial size is an important marker for adverse cardiovascular events. There is general consensus that left atrial volume index (LAVI) is the best measurement of size. The current LAVI measurement techniqu...

    Authors: Ramin Artang, Raymond Q Migrino, Leanne Harmann, Mark Bowers and Timothy D Woods
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:16
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  15. In about one third of all patients with cerebral ischemia, no definite cause can be identified (cryptogenic stroke). In many patients with initially suspected cryptogenic stroke, however, a cardiogenic etiolog...

    Authors: Fabian Knebel, Florian Masuhr, Wolfram von Hausen, Torsten Walde, Henryk Dreger, Vanessa Raab, Mahsun Yuerek, Gert Baumann and Adrian C Borges
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:15
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  16. Ultrasound is the preferred imaging modality in diagnosis of vascular complications following cardiac catheterization and intervention. In some cases, however, bleeding surrounding the femoral vessels, may sev...

    Authors: Mai Tone Lønnebakken, Eva Gerdts, Jan Wirsching and Ole Martin Pedersen
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:14
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  18. Echocardiographic measurements of left ventricular (LV) myocardial displacement may produce different results depending on the choice of employed modality and subjective adjustments during data acquisition and...

    Authors: Aristomenis Manouras, Kambiz Shahgaldi, Reidar Winter, Lars-Ã…ke Brodin and Jacek Nowak
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:12
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  21. A right heart catheterization with reversibility testing is recommended for the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension. In this 24 years-old woman, the inhalation of 5 μg iloprost transient...

    Authors: Sandrine Huez, Jean-Luc Vachiéry and Robert Naeije
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:9
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  22. Recent advances in technology have provided the opportunity for off-line analysis of digital video-clips of two-dimensional (2-D) echocardiographic images.

    Authors: C Bussadori, A Moreo, M Di Donato, B De Chiara, D Negura, E Dall'Aglio, E Lobiati, M Chessa, C Arcidiacono, JS Dua, F Mauri and M Carminati
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:8
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  23. The present case report illustrates the clinical applicability of the proximal isovelocity surface area (PISA) method in identifying, locating and assessing paravalvular prosthetic mitral regurgitation by tran...

    Authors: Stephane Arques, Caroline Leonnet, Emmanuel Roux and Jean-François Avierinos
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:7
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  24. The role of speckle tracking in the assessment of left atrial (LA) deformation dynamics is not established. We sought to determine the feasibility and reference ranges of LA longitudinal strain indices measure...

    Authors: Matteo Cameli, Maria Caputo, Sergio Mondillo, Piercarlo Ballo, Elisabetta Palmerini, Matteo Lisi, Enzo Marino and Maurizio Galderisi
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:6
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  25. D-Ribose, a pentose sugar, has shown to improve myocardial high-energy phosphate stores depleted by ischemia. This study investigated the ability of D-Ribose with low dose dobutamine to improve the contractile...

    Authors: Stephen G Sawada, Stephen Lewis, Roxanne Kovacs, Samer Khouri, Irmina Gradus-Pizlo, John A St Cyr and Harvey Feigenbaum
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:5
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  26. Primary intracardiac tumours are rare, there are however several entities that can mimic tumours. Contrast echocardiography has been suggested to aid the differentiation of various suspected masses. We present...

    Authors: Magnus Dencker and Anna Missios
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:4
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  27. Cardiac tamponade is the phenomenon of hemodynamic compromise caused by a pericardial effusion. Following a myocardial infarction, the most common causes of pericardial fluid include early pericarditis, Dressl...

    Authors: Thang Nguyen, Kanwal Kumar, Andrew Francis, Jonathan R Walker, Michael Raabe, Shelley Zieroth and Davinder S Jassal
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:3
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  29. Cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT) improves mortality and morbidity in heart failure patients with wide QRS. Observational studies suggest that patients having more left ventricular dyssynchrony pre-impla...

    Authors: Magnus Edner, Yong Kim, Knud Norregaard Hansen, Henrik Nissen, Geert Espersen, Karl La Rosee, Fikru Maru, Nick Freemantle, John Cleland and Peter Sogaard
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2009 7:1
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  30. Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) provides benefit for congestive heart failure, but still 30% of patients failed to respond to such therapy. This lack of response may be due to the presence of significa...

    Authors: Marie Moonen, Mario Senechal, Bernard Cosyns, Pierre Melon, Eric Nellessen, Luc Pierard and Patrizio Lancellotti
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2008 6:65
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  33. Genetic testing has become an increasingly important part of medical practice for heritable form of cardiomyopathies. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and about 50% of idiopathic dilatative cardiomyopathy are famil...

    Authors: Maria Giovanna Colombo, Nicoletta Botto, Simona Vittorini, Umberto Paradossi and Maria Grazia Andreassi
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2008 6:62
    Content type: Review Published on:

  34. While both flow-mediated vasodilation (FMD) in the brachial artery (BA), which measures endothelium-dependent vasodilatation, and intima-media thickness (IMT) in the carotid artery are correlated with the prog...

    Authors: Bonpei Takase, Yoshihiro Matsushima, Akimi Uehata, Masayuki Ishihara and Akira Kurita
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2008 6:61
    Content type: Research Published on:

  35. We present images of a rare case where a primary lung tumour was visualised by transthoracic echocardiography. The patient was a 78-year-old male where Chest X-ray had revealed a tumour-suspected structure in ...

    Authors: Magnus Dencker, Carin Cronberg, Sabine Damm, Sven Valind and Monica Wadbo
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2008 6:60
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  36. Trans-mitral Doppler produces complex patterns with a great deal of variability. There are several confusing numerical measures and indices to study these patterns. However trans-mitral Doppler produces readym...

    Authors: George Thomas
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2008 6:59
    Content type: Hypothesis Published on:

  37. Cardiac resynchronization Therapy (CRT) is an effective therapy for chronic heart failure with beneficial hemodynamic effects leading to a reduction of morbidity and mortality. The responder rates, however, ar...

    Authors: Fabian Knebel, Sebastian Schattke, Hansjürgen Bondke, Christoph Richter, Christoph Melzer, Henryk Dreger, Andrea Grohmann, Gert Baumann and Adrian C Borges
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2008 6:58
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  38. Decompensated heart failure may present with severe hypertension in patients with preserved (PreEF) or reduced left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction (RedEF) and is clinically indistinguishable. Previously, w...

    Authors: Steven J Lavine and Donald A Conetta
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2008 6:57
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  39. Multiparametric echocardiographic imaging of the failing heart is now increasingly used and useful in decision making in heart failure. The reasons for this, relies on the need of different strategies of handl...

    Authors: Luiz C Danzmann, Luiz Carlos Bodanese, Ilmar Köhler and Marco R Torres
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2008 6:56
    Content type: Review Published on:

  40. Left ventricular size and function are important prognostic factors in heart disease. Their measurement is the most frequent reason for sending patients to the echo lab. These measurements have important impli...

    Authors: Eva Maret, Lars Brudin, Lena Lindstrom, Eva Nylander, Jan L Ohlsson and Jan E Engvall
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2008 6:55
    Content type: Research Published on:

  41. Medline research indicates that an increasing number of manuscripts have been published in the last decade claiming, the feasibility and the potential clinical role of tissue Doppler and strain/strain rate ima...

    Authors: Rodolfo Citro, Eduardo Bossone, Bettina Kuersten, Giovanni Gregorio and Alessandro Salustri
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2008 6:54
    Content type: Review Published on:

  43. To describe the findings and evaluate appropriateness of a carotid artery study including the measurement of IMT, the presence of atherosclerotic plaque, and their correlation with cardiovascular risk factors.

    Authors: Liz Andréa Villela Baroncini, Aguinaldo de Oliveira, Enrique Antonio Vidal, Graciliano José França, Paulo Sérgio Dalla Bona Stahlke, Alexandre Alessi and Dalton Bertolim Précoma
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2008 6:52
    Content type: Research Published on:

  44. The systolic pulmonary artery pressure (PAPs) can be accurately estimated, non-invasively, using continuous-wave Doppler (CWD) ultrasound measurement of the peak velocity of a tricuspid regurgitant (TR) jet.

    Authors: Luis R Lopes, Maria J Loureiro, Rita Miranda, Sofia Almeida, Ana R Almeida, Ana Cordeiro, Carlos Cotrim and Manuel Carrageta
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2008 6:51
    Content type: Research Published on:

  46. Echocardiography is increasingly used in the management of the critically ill patient as a non-invasive diagnostic and monitoring tool. Whilst in few countries specialized national training schemes for intensi...

    Authors: Susanna Price, Gabriele Via, Erik Sloth, Fabio Guarracino, Raoul Breitkreutz, Emanuele Catena and Daniel Talmor
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2008 6:49
    Content type: Review Published on:

  47. Coronary angiography is considered to be the gold standard technique for assessing the severity of obstructive luminal narrowing; however, in a few circumstances it may be misleading. In these cases, cardiac c...

    Authors: Domenico M Zardi, Enrico M Zardi, Andrea Berni, Cristiana Nannini, Biagio Andrea Pace, Stefano Santucci and Massimo Volpe
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2008 6:48
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  48. Global cardiovascular risk is a new approach which allows the physicians to quantitate the prognosis of the patients. It is therefore possible that a score, based on the major cardiovascular risk factors, is c...

    Authors: Aldo Pende, Caterina Grondona and Stefano Bertolini
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2008 6:47
    Content type: Research Published on:

  50. The aim of this prospective study was to assess the diagnostic value of NT-proBNP and the concordance with Tissue Doppler Echocardiography (including strain and longitudinal displacement) in diastolic and syst...

    Authors: Fabian Knebel, Stephan Eddicks, Ingolf Schimke, Michael Bierbaum, Sebastian Schattke, Mark Beling, Vanessa Raab, Gert Baumann and Adrian C Borges
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2008 6:45
    Content type: Research Published on:
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