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  1. Cardiovascular risk associated with diabetes may be partially attributed to left ventricular structural abnormalities. However, the relations between left ventricular structure and diabetes have not been exten...

    Authors: Murilo Foppa, Bruce B Duncan, Donna K Arnett, Emelia J Benjamin, Philip R Liebson, Teri A Manolio and Thomas N Skelton
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2006 4:43
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  3. This study explores the feasibility of non-invasive assessment of left ventricular volume and flow relationship throughout cardiac cycle employing echocardiographic methods.

    Authors: Emil Söderqvist, Peter Cain, Britta Lind, Reidar Winter, Jacek Nowak and Lars-Åke Brodin
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2006 4:40
    Content type: Technical notes Published on:

  4. Echocardiography plays an integral role in the detection of mechanical dyssynchrony in patients with congestive heart failure and in predicting beneficial response to cardiac resynchronization treatment. In pa...

    Authors: Tasneem Z Naqvi, Asim M Rafique and C Thomas Peter
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2006 4:39
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  6. Aortic Valve Disease, includes a range of disorder severity from mild leaflet thickening without valve obstruction, "aortic sclerosis", to severe calcified aortic stenosis. It is a slowly progressive active pr...

    Authors: Pedro L Sanchez and Anna Maria Mazzone
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2006 4:37
    Content type: Review Published on:

    The Retraction Note to this article has been published in Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2006 4:42

  7. Echocardiography is a valuable non-invasive technique for identifying the site and type of aortic obstruction. Knowledge of the morphological details of each type of obstruction is the basis for correct interp...

    Authors: Nilda Espinola-Zavaleta, Luis Muñoz-Castellanos, Magdalena Kuri-Nivon and Candace Keirns
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2006 4:36
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  8. The aim of the present study was to describe the clinical and echocardiographic findings of ventricular noncompaction in adult patients. Fifty-three patients underwent complete clinical history, electrocardiog...

    Authors: Nilda Espinola-Zavaleta, M Elena Soto, Luis Muñóz Castellanos, Silvio Játiva-Chávez and Candace Keirns
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2006 4:35
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  10. Endothelial nitric oxide synthase produces nitric oxide which is involved in many physiologic regulatory functions. Variable number of tandem repeats in intron 4 of endothelial nitric oxide synthase gene are r...

    Authors: Ayhan Olcay, C Gokhan Ekmekci, Ugur Ozbek, Murat Sezer, Cem Barcin, Erol Arslan, Bilal Boztosun and Yilmaz Nisanci
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2006 4:33
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  11. To establish the correlation between quantitative analysis based on B-mode ultrasound images of vulnerable carotid plaque and histological examination of the surgically removed plaque, on the basis of a videod...

    Authors: Liz Andréa V Baroncini, Antonio Pazin Filho, Luiz O Murta Junior, Antonio R Martins, Simone G Ramos, Jesualdo Cherri and Carlos E Piccinato
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2006 4:32
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  13. To study the effects of Beta-blockers during Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography (DSE) comparing the hemodynamic benefits of an early administration of atropine in patients taking or not Beta-blockers.

    Authors: Ana C Camarozano, Plínio Resende Jr, Aristarco G Siqueira-Filho, Luis H Weitzel and Rosangela Noe
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2006 4:30
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  14. Pericardial tumours are unusual and may be difficult to characterise with imaging. They manifest as large, non-contractile, solid masses within the pericardium. Presenting symptoms include heart failure, arryt...

    Authors: Lindsey Tilling, Lucy Hudsmith, Jonathan Goldman and Harald Becher
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2006 4:29
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  15. The metabolic syndrome is associated with increased vascular disease risk. We evaluated two carotid ultrasound measurements, namely intima media thickness and total plaque volume, in a Canadian Oji-Cree popula...

    Authors: Rebecca L Pollex, Khalid Z Al-Shali, Andrew A House, J David Spence, Aaron Fenster, Mary Mamakeesick, Bernard Zinman, Stewart B Harris, Anthony JG Hanley and Robert A Hegele
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2006 4:28
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  16. The abnormalities of aortic valve morphology and function represent the most common cardiac-valve lesion particularly in elderly. The etiology of aortic stenosis is degenerative-calcific in the majority of pat...

    Authors: Pompilio Faggiano, Francesco Antonini-Canterin, Ferdinando Baldessin, Roberto Lorusso, Antonio D'Aloia and Livio Dei Cas
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2006 4:27
    Content type: Review Published on:

  17. It has been recently observed that statins might slow the progression of aortic stenosis or sclerosis. Preliminary reports suggested a similar positive effect in reducing the degeneration of aortic valve biopr...

    Authors: Francesco Antonini-Canterin, Alfredo Zuppiroli, Ferdinando Baldessin, Bogdan A Popescu and Gian Luigi Nicolosi
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2006 4:26
    Content type: Review Published on:

  18. Although a small percentage of patients with critical aortic stenosis do not develop left ventricle hypertrophy, increased ventricular mass is widely observed in conditions of increased afterload. There is gro...

    Authors: Emmanuel Villa, Giovanni Troise, Marco Cirillo, Federico Brunelli, Margherita Dalla Tomba, Zen Mhagna, Giordano Tasca and Eugenio Quaini
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2006 4:25
    Content type: Review Published on:

  19. Degenerative aortic valve stenosis includes a range of disorder severity from mild leaflet thickening without valve obstruction, "aortic sclerosis", to severe calcified aortic stenosis. It is a slowly progress...

    Authors: Pedro L Sanchez and AnnaMaria Mazzone
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2006 4:24
    Content type: Review Published on:

  20. Assessment of cardiac preload is important for clinical management of some emergencies related to hypovolemia. Effects of acute simulated hypovolemia on Doppler blood flow velocity indices of tricuspid valve (...

    Authors: Jie Liu, Tie-Sheng Cao, Li-Jun Yuan, Yun-You Duan and Yi-Lin Yang
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2006 4:23
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  21. Dipyridamole and dobutamine stress echocardiography testing are most widely utilized, but their sensitivity remained suboptimal in comparison to routine exercise stress echocardiography. The aim of our study i...

    Authors: Ivana Nedeljkovic, Miodrag Ostojic, Branko Beleslin, Ana Djordjevic-Dikic, Jelena Stepanovic, Milan Nedeljkovic, Sinisa Stojkovic, Goran Stankovic, Jovica Saponjski, Zorica Petrasinovic, Vojislav Giga and Predrag Mitrovic
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2006 4:22
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  23. Before the widespread use of primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors (GP IIb/IIIa) left ventricular (LV) thrombus formation had been reported to complicate up to 2...

    Authors: Arshad Rehan, Manpreet Kanwar, Howard Rosman, Sujood Ahmed, Arshad Ali, Julius Gardin and Gerald Cohen
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2006 4:20
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  25. Chagas' disease may cause left ventricular diastolic dysfunction and its early detection in asymptomatic patients would allow to stratify the risk and to optimize medical treatment. The aim of this study is to...

    Authors: Tomás F Cianciulli, Jorge A Lax, María C Saccheri, Alonso Papantoniou, Luis A Morita, Nilda G Prado, Adriana N Dorelle, Adelina R Riarte and Horacio A Prezioso
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2006 4:18
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  26. The conventional dobutamine protocol for the investigation of induced myocardial ischemia is well established. Our objective was to evaluate the effects of early administration of atropine during the dobutamin...

    Authors: Ana Cristina Camarozano, Aristarco G Siqueira-Filho, Luis Henrique Weitzel, Plínio Resende and Rosângela Aparecida Noé
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2006 4:17
    Content type: Research Published on:

  28. Most patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) have asymmetric septal hypertrophy and among them, 25% present dynamic subaortic obstruction. Apical HCM is unusual and mid-ventricular HCM is the most infr...

    Authors: Tomás Francisco Cianciulli, María Cristina Saccheri, Isabel Victoria Konopka, Dora Faustina Serans, Rafael Salvador Acunzo, Alejandro Mario García Escudero, Osvaldo Horacio Masoli and Horacio Alberto Prezioso
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2006 4:15
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  29. Doppler-tipped coronary guide-wires (FW) are well-established tools in interventional cardiology to quantitatively analyze coronary blood flow. Doppler wires are used to measure the coronary flow velocity rese...

    Authors: Markus Ferrari, Gerald S Werner, Philipp Bahrmann, Barbara M Richartz and Hans R Figulla
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2006 4:14
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  31. The severity index is a new echocardiographic measure that is thought to be an accurate indicator of aortic leaflet pathology in patients with AS. However, it has not been validated against cardiac catheteriza...

    Authors: David M Shavelle, Nediljka Buljabasic, Junichiro Takasu, Ashkan Babaie, Joseph Rosales, Matthew J Budoff and Kevin D O'Brien
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2006 4:12
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  33. Myocardial contrast echocardiography has been used for determination of infarct size (IS) in experimental models. However, with intermittent harmonic imaging, IS seems to be underestimated immediately after re...

    Authors: Paulo Magno Martins Dourado, Jeane Mike Tsutsui, Antonio Carlos Palandri Chagas, João César Nunes Sbano, Vera demarchi Aiello, Protásio Lemos da Luz, Wilson Mathias Jr and Jose AF Ramires
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2006 4:10
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  34. Though hemodialysis (HD) acutely improves cardiac function, the impact of background diseases like coronary artery disease (CAD) and Type 2 diabetes (DM) in the setting of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) is not...

    Authors: Satish Chandra Govind, Simin Roumina, Lars-Åke Brodin, Jacek Nowak, Saligrama Srinivasiah Ramesh and Samir Kanti Saha
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2006 4:9
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  35. Unstable carotid plaques on subjective, visual, assessment using B-mode ultrasound scanning appear as echolucent and heterogeneous. Although previous studies on computer assisted plaque characterisation have s...

    Authors: Stavros K Kakkos, Andrew N Nicolaides, Efthyvoulos Kyriacou, Constantinos S Pattichis and George Geroulakos
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2006 4:8
    Content type: Research Published on:

  36. 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 ...

    Authors: Maria Luciana Zacarias Hannouche da Trindade, Jeane Mike Tsutsui, Ana Clara Tude Rodrigues, Márcia Azevedo Caldas, José Antônio Franchini Ramires and Wilson Mathias Junior
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2006 4:7
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  37. Our case report deals with the importance of detailed echocardiographic examination for differential diagnosis of coronary sinus dilation and development of abnormalities of great thoracic veins.

    Authors: Attila Pálinkás, Edit Nagy, Tamás Forster, Zita Morvai, Endre Nagy and Albert Varga
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2006 4:6
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  38. Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT) leads to a reduction of left-ventricular dyssynchrony and an acute and sustained hemodynamic improvement in patients with chronic heart failure. Furthermore, an optimize...

    Authors: Christoph Melzer, Fabian Knebel, Bruno Ismer, Hansjürgen Bondke, Christoph A Nienaber, Gert Baumann and Adrian C Borges
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2006 4:5
    Content type: Research Published on:

  39. Renal artery stenosis (RAS) is one of the main causes of secondary systemic arterial hypertension. Several non-invasive diagnostic methods for RAS have been used in hypertensive patients, such as color Doppler...

    Authors: Sergio Chain, Hector Luciardi, Gabriela Feldman, Sofia Berman, Ramón N Herrera, Javier Ochoa, Juan Muntaner, Eduardo M Escudero and Ricardo Ronderos
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2006 4:4
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  42. The effect of age on common carotid artery diameter is unclear for varying atherosclerosis risk levels.

    Authors: Marsha L Eigenbrodt, Zoran Bursac, Kathryn M Rose, David J Couper, Richard E Tracy, Gregory W Evans, Frederick L Brancati and Jawahar L Mehta
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2006 4:1
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  43. This pilot study was performed to evaluate whether virtual reality is applicable for three-dimensional echocardiography and if three-dimensional echocardiographic 'holograms' have the potential to become a cli...

    Authors: Annemien E van den Bosch, Anton HJ Koning, Folkert J Meijboom, Jackie S McGhie, Maarten L Simoons, Peter J van der Spek and Ad JJC Bogers
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2005 3:37
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  44. High-rate pacing is a valid stress test to be used in conjunction with echocardiography; it is independent of physical exercise and does not require drug administration. There are two main applications of paci...

    Authors: Suzana Gligorova and Marco Agrusta
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2005 3:36
    Content type: Review Published on:

  45. Coronary cameral fistulas are an uncommon entity, the etiology of which may be congenital or traumatic. They involve abnormal termination of a coronary artery, usually the right coronary, into a cardiac chambe...

    Authors: Angel López-Candales and Vivek Kumar
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2005 3:35
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  46. Dobutamine stress echocardiography is used to investigate a wide variety of heart diseases in humans. Dobutamine stress echocardiography has also been used in animal models of heart disease despite the facts t...

    Authors: Eric Plante, Dominic Lachance, Marie-Claude Drolet, Élise Roussel, Jacques Couet and Marie Arsenault
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2005 3:34
    Content type: Research Published on:

  47. In patients with inferior myocardial infarction, septal rupture generally involves basal inferoposterior septum, and the communicating tract between left and right ventricle is often serpiginous with a variabl...

    Authors: Carlos J Soriano, José L Pérez-Boscá, Sergio Canovas, Francisco Ridocci, Pau Federico, Ildefonso Echanove and Rafael Paya
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2005 3:33
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  49. An unusual sequence of post operative events heralded by hemodynamic deterioration followed by dyspnea and rapidly progressive dilatation of superficial neck and facial veins, resembling a superior vena cava s...

    Authors: Angel López-Candales, David Kaczorowski and Ronald Pellegrini
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2005 3:31
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  50. Right-sided endocarditis occurs predominantly in intravenous drug users, in patients with pacemaker or central venous lines and in patients with congenital heart disease. The vast majority of cases involve the...

    Authors: Adriano M Pellicelli, Paolo Pino, Antonio Terranova, Cecilia D'Ambrosio and Fabrizio Soccorsi
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2005 3:30
    Content type: Case report Published on:
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