How I do it: feasibility of a new ultrasound probe fixator to facilitate high quality stress echocardiography
Stress echocardiography (SE) has recently regained momentum as an important diagnostic tool for the assessment of both ischemic and non-ischemic heart disease. Performing SE during physical exercise is challen... (Source: Cardiovascular Ultrasound)
Source: Cardiovascular Ultrasound - March 27, 2018 Category: Radiology Authors: O. A. E. Salden, W. M. van Everdingen, R. Spee, P. A. Doevendans and M. J. Cramer Tags: How I do it article Source Type: research
Post-operative left atrial volume index is a predictor of the occurrence of permanent atrial fibrillation after mitral valve surgery in patients who undergo mitral valve surgery
Atrial fibrillation (AF) can occur even after the correction of mitral valve (MV) pathology in patients who have pre-operative sinus rhythm and undergo MV surgery. However, the factors associated with the occu... (Source: Cardiovascular Ultrasound)
Source: Cardiovascular Ultrasound - March 9, 2018 Category: Radiology Authors: Min-Kyung Kang, Boyoung Joung, Chi Young Shim, In Jeong Cho, Woo-In Yang, Jeonggeun Moon, Yangsoo Jang, Namsik Chung, Byung-Chul Chang and Jong-Won Ha Tags: Research Source Type: research
Cardiac fluid dynamics meets deformation imaging
Cardiac function is about creating and sustaining blood in motion. This is achieved through a proper sequence of myocardial deformation whose final goal is that of creating flow. Deformation imaging provided v... (Source: Cardiovascular Ultrasound)
Source: Cardiovascular Ultrasound - February 20, 2018 Category: Radiology Authors: Matteo Dal Ferro, Davide Stolfo, Valerio De Paris, Pierluigi Lesizza, Renata Korcova, Dario Collia, Giovanni Tonti, Gianfranco Sinagra and Gianni Pedrizzetti Tags: Review Source Type: research
Equivocal tests after contrast stress-echocardiography compared with invasive coronary angiography or with CT angiography: CT calcium score in mildly positive tests may spare unnecessary coronary angiograms
Imaging stress tests are not ideally accurate to predict anatomically obstructive CAD, leading to a non-trivial rate of unnecessary iCA. This may depend on the threshold used to indicate iCA, and maybe CTA or,... (Source: Cardiovascular Ultrasound)
Source: Cardiovascular Ultrasound - February 6, 2018 Category: Radiology Authors: Nicola Gaibazzi, Guido Pastorini, Andrea Biagi, Francesco Tafuni, Claudia Buffa, Silvia Garibaldi, Francesca Boffetti and Giorgio Benatti Tags: Research Source Type: research
Realization of fully automated quantification of left ventricular volumes and systolic function using transthoracic 3D echocardiography
Study on automated three-dimensional (3D) quantification of left heart parameters by using Heartmodel software is still in the early stage and fully automatic analysis was not clearly achieved. The aim of our ... (Source: Cardiovascular Ultrasound)
Source: Cardiovascular Ultrasound - January 23, 2018 Category: Radiology Authors: Lina Sun, Haiyan Feng, Lujia Ni, Hui Wang and Dongmei Gao Tags: Research Source Type: research
3D vena contracta area after MitraClip © procedure: precise quantification of residual mitral regurgitation and identification of prognostic information
Percutaneous mitral valve repair (PMVR) is increasingly performed in patients with severe mitral regurgitation (MR). Post-procedural MR grading is challenging and an unsettled issue. We hypothesised that the d... (Source: Cardiovascular Ultrasound)
Source: Cardiovascular Ultrasound - January 9, 2018 Category: Radiology Authors: Alexander Dietl, Christine Prieschenk, Franziska Eckert, Christoph Birner, Andreas Luchner, Lars S. Maier and Stefan Buchner Tags: Research Source Type: research
Energetic performance analysis of staged palliative surgery in tricuspid atresia using vector flow mapping
Staged palliative surgery markedly shifts the balance of volume load on a single ventricle and pulmonary vascular bed. Blalock-Taussig shunt necessitates a single ventricle eject blood to both the systemic and... (Source: Cardiovascular Ultrasound)
Source: Cardiovascular Ultrasound - December 14, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Mao Kinoshita, Koichi Akiyama, Keiichi Itatani, Ayahiro Yamashita, Maki Ishii, Atsushi Kainuma, Yoshinobu Maeda, Takako Miyazaki, Masaaki Yamagishi and Teiji Sawa Tags: Case report Source Type: research
Multi-modality imaging evaluation of recurrent Tako-tsubo syndrome in a patient with coronary artery fibromuscular dysplasia
Integrated bedside and sophisticated cardiac imaging techniques help characterize the discrepancy between myocardial injury and mechanic dysfunction in acute myocardial infarction. (Source: Cardiovascular Ultrasound)
Source: Cardiovascular Ultrasound - November 30, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Yun Cheng, Chenying Lu and Kan Liu Tags: Case report Source Type: research
Comparison of strain parameters in dyssynchronous heart failure between speckle tracking echocardiography vendor systems
Although mechanical dyssynchrony parameters derived by speckle tracking echocardiography (STE) may predict response to cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), comparability of parameters derived with differen... (Source: Cardiovascular Ultrasound)
Source: Cardiovascular Ultrasound - October 18, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Wouter M. van Everdingen, Alexander H. Maass, Kevin Vernooy, Mathias Meine, Cornelis P. Allaart, Frederik J. De Lange, Arco J. Teske, Bastiaan Geelhoed, Michiel Rienstra, Isabelle C. Van Gelder, Marc A. Vos and Maarten J. Cramer Tags: Research Source Type: research
Troponin as ischemic biomarker is related with all three echocardiographic risk factors for sudden death in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (ESC Guidelines 2014)
Sudden cardiac death (SCD) risk stratification is the most important preventive action in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). The identification of the ischemia biomarker high sensitive troponin I... (Source: Cardiovascular Ultrasound)
Source: Cardiovascular Ultrasound - September 13, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Rafa ł Hładij, Renata Rajtar-Salwa and Paweł Petkow Dimitrow Tags: Research Source Type: research
Could the use of bedside lung ultrasound reduce the number of chest x-rays in the intensive care unit?
Lung ultrasound can be used as an alternative to chest radiography (CXR) for the diagnosis and follow-up of various lung diseases in the intensive care unit (ICU). Our aim was to evaluate the influence that in... (Source: Cardiovascular Ultrasound)
Source: Cardiovascular Ultrasound - September 13, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Etrusca Brogi, Elena Bignami, Anna Sidoti, Mohammed Shawar, Luna Gargani, Luigi Vetrugno, Giovanni Volpicelli and Francesco Forfori Tags: Research Source Type: research
The impact of preload on 3-dimensional deformation parameters: principal strain, twist and torsion
Strain analysis is feasible using three-dimensional (3D) echocardiography. This approach provides various parameters based on speckle tracking analysis from one full-volume image of the left ventricle; however... (Source: Cardiovascular Ultrasound)
Source: Cardiovascular Ultrasound - September 12, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Hyo-Suk Ahn, Yong-Kyun Kim, Ho Chul Song, Euy Jin Choi, Gee-Hee Kim, Jung Sun Cho, Sang-Hyun Ihm, Hee-Yeol Kim, Chan Seok Park and Ho-Joong Youn Tags: Research Source Type: research
Preoperative single ventricle function determines early outcome after second-stage palliation of single ventricle heart
Second-stage palliation with hemi-Fontan or bidirectional Glenn procedures has improved the outcomes of patients treated for single-ventricle heart disease. The aim of this study was to retrospectively analyze... (Source: Cardiovascular Ultrasound)
Source: Cardiovascular Ultrasound - September 11, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Jacek Paj ąk, Michał Buczyński, Piotr Stanek, Grzegorz Zalewski, Marek Wites, Lesław Szydłowski, Bogusław Mazurek and Lidia Tomkiewicz-Pająk Tags: Research Source Type: research
Myocardial performance index in female athletes
Long-term intensive training leads to morphological and mechanical changes in the heart generally known as “athlete’s heart”. Previous studies have suggested that the diastolic and systolic function of the ven... (Source: Cardiovascular Ultrasound)
Source: Cardiovascular Ultrasound - September 11, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Zahraa Alsafi, Andreas Malmgren, Petri Gudmundsson, Martin Stagmo and Magnus Dencker Tags: Research Source Type: research
Carotid plaque rather than intima-media thickness as a predictor of recurrent vascular events in patients with acute ischemic stroke
To investigate the impacts of carotid plaque and intima-media thickness (IMT) on future vascular events (VEs) in the patients with acute ischemic stroke. (Source: Cardiovascular Ultrasound)
Source: Cardiovascular Ultrasound - July 24, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Hyun Ju Yoon, Kye Hun Kim, Hyukjin Park, Jae Yeong Cho, Young Joon Hong, Hyung Wook Park, Ju Han Kim, Youngkeun Ahn, Myung Ho Jeong, Jeong Gwan Cho and Jong Chun Park Source Type: research
