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  1. Blood flow between the right and left ventricles is subject to the continuity equation and systolic ventricular interdependence. Quantification of this relationship might aid in understanding inter-ventricular...

    Authors: Steven R Bruhl, Mangeet Chahal and Samer J Khouri
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:42
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  2. Chronic right ventricular (RV) apical pacing may lead to left ventricular (LV) dyssynchrony and LV dysfunction. In heart failure due to RV pacing, upgrading to biventricular stimulation (CRT) can improve NYHA ...

    Authors: Maria-Aurora Morales, Umberto Startari, Giuseppe Rossi, Luca Panchetti, Andrea Rossi and Marcello Piacenti
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:41
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  3. Cardiac syndrome X is an important therapeutic and diagnostic challenge to physician. Study of Csx patients may help to understand the pathophysiology of coronary microcirculation and to gain an insight on the...

    Authors: Otikunta Adikesava Naidu, Durgaprasad Rajasekhar and SAA Latheef
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:40
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  4. In recent years, several new technologies for small-animal imaging have been developed. In particular, the use of ultrasound in animal imaging has focused on the investigation of accessible biological structur...

    Authors: Maria Paola Belfiore, Daniela Berritto, Francesca Iacobellis, Claudia Rossi, Gerardo Nigro, Ida Luisa Rotundo, Santolo Cozzolino, Salvatore Cappabianca, Antonio Rotondo and Roberto Grassi
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:39
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  5. There is strong evidence that left atrial (LA) size is a prognostic marker in a variety of heart diseases. Recently, real-time three-dimensional echocardiography (RT3DE) has been reported as a useful tool for ...

    Authors: Constantina Aggeli, Ioannis Felekos, Emmanuel Poulidakis, Athanasios Aggelis, Dimitrios Tousoulis and Christodoulos Stefanadis
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:38
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  6. This study was designed to describe Doppler-echocardiography values of Carpentier-Edwards Perimount Standard (CEPS) and Carpentier-Edwards Perimount Magna (CEPM) aortic prosthetic valves, evaluated by a single...

    Authors: Giovanni Minardi, Giovanni Pulignano, Donatella Del Sindaco, Martina Sordi, Herribert Pavaci, Amedeo Pergolini, Giordano Zampi, Francesca Moschella Orsini, Carlo Gaudio and Francesco Musumeci
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:37
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  7. The degree of pulmonary hypertension is not independently related to the severity of left ventricular systolic dysfunction but is frequently associated with diastolic filling abnormalities. The aim of this stu...

    Authors: Tonino Bombardini, Rosa Sicari, Elisabetta Bianchini and Eugenio Picano
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:36
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  8. The "radiation issue" is the need to consider possible deterministic effects (e.g., skin injuries) and long-term cancer risks due to ionizing radiation in the risk-benefit assessment of diagnostic or therapeut...

    Authors: Eugenio Picano and Eliseo Vano
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:35
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  9. To prospectively evaluate the relationship between left atrial volume (LAV) and the risk of clinical events in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).

    Authors: Tomoko Tani, Toshikazu Yagi, Takeshi Kitai, Kitae Kim, Hitomi Nakamura, Toshiko Konda, Yoko Fujii, Junichi Kawai, Atsushi Kobori, Natsuhiko Ehara, Makoto Kinoshita, Shuichiro Kaji, Atsushi Yamamuro, Shigefumi Morioka, Toru Kita and Yutaka Furukawa
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:34
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  10. Hypertension is associated with atherosclerosis and cardiac and vascular structural and functional changes. Myocardial ischemia may arise in hypertension independent of coronary artery disease through an inter...

    Authors: Mai Tone Lønnebakken, Åshild E Rieck and Eva Gerdts
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:33
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  11. Intima-media thickness of the common carotid artery (CCA-IMT) is a validated marker of systemic atherosclerosis process. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between coronary artery disease (C...

    Authors: Marco M Ciccone, Pietro Scicchitano, Annapaola Zito, Luciano Agati, Michele Gesualdo, Sandro Mandolesi, Rosa Carbonara, Francesco Ciciarello and Francesco Fedele
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:32
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  12. We evaluated the impact of chronic kidney disease (CKD) on the presence and severity of aortic stenosis (AS) in patients at high risk for coronary artery disease (CAD).

    Authors: Chiaki Masuda, Kaoru Dohi, Yuko Sakurai, Yuri Bessho, Harumi Fukuda, Shinobu Fujii, Tadafumi Sugimoto, Masaki Tanabe, Katsuya Onishi, Katsuya Shiraki, Masaaki Ito and Tsutomu Nobori
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:31
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  13. Sodium channel blockers augment ST-segment elevation in the right precordial leads in patients undergoing Brugada-type electrocardiography (ECG). However, their effect on echocardiographic features is not know...

    Authors: Kazuya Murata, Takeshi Ueyama, Takeo Tanaka, Yoshio Nose, Yasuaki Wada and Masunori Matsuzaki
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:30
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  14. Many previous studies have evaluated the impact of mitral valve (MV) deformity scores on the percutaneous transvenous mitral commissurotomy (PTMC) outcome in patients with mitral stenosis; however, the relatio...

    Authors: Mojtaba Salarifar, Mehrnaz Rezvanfard, Hakimeh Sadeghian, Azam Safir-mardanloo and Nahid Shafii
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:29
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  15. Cardiac resynchronization therapy is proven efficacious in patients with heart failure (HF). Presence of biventricular HF is associated with a worse prognosis than having only left ventricular (LV) HF and paci...

    Authors: Magnus Edner, Margareta Ring and Peter Henriksson
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:28
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  16. Regular training, in particular endurance exercise, induces structural myocardial adaptation, so-called "athlete's heart". In addition to the 2D standard echo parameters, assessment of myocardial function is c...

    Authors: Alessio De Luca, Laura Stefani, Gianni Pedrizzetti, Stefano Pedri and Giorgio Galanti
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:27
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  17. When applying echo-Doppler imaging for either clinical or research purposes it is very important to select the most adequate modality/technology and choose the most reliable and reproducible measurements. Qual...

    Authors: Maurizio Galderisi, Stefano Nistri, Sergio Mondillo, Maria-Angela Losi, Pasquale Innelli, Donato Mele, Denisa Muraru, Antonello D'Andrea, Piercarlo Ballo, Aurelio Sgalambro, Roberta Esposito, Giuliano Marti, Alessandro Santoro, Eustachio Agricola, Luigi P Badano, Roberto Marchioli…
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:26
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  19. Matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) and tissue inhibitor of MMP (TIMP) promote derangement of the extracellular matrix, which is ultimately reflected in plaque images seen on ultrasound. Videodensitometry can i...

    Authors: Liz Andréa V Baroncini, Antonio Filho Pazin, Luiz Otávio Murta Junior, Lia S Nakao, Simone G Ramos and Dalton B Précoma
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:24
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  20. A 71-year-old woman presented with a right adnexal solid mass invading the right gonadal vein and inferior vena cava up to the hepatic veins revealed by CT and confirmed by MRI. A thin-walled cyst and a solid ...

    Authors: Cristina L Wood, James Sederberg II, Paul Russ and Tamas Seres
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:23
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  23. Biventricular (Biv) pacemaker echo optimization has been shown to improve cardiac output however is not routinely used due to its complexity. We investigated the role of a simple method involving computerized ...

    Authors: Nima Taha, Jing Zhang, Reza Rafie, Rupesh Ranjan, Salima Qamruddin and Tasneem Z Naqvi
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:20
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  24. the clinical decision making could be difficult in patients with borderline lesions (visually assessed stenosis severity of 30 to 50%) of the left main coronary artery (LM). The aim of the study was to evaluat...

    Authors: Zoltán Ruzsa, Attila Pálinkás, Tamás Forster, Imre Ungi and Albert Varga
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:19
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  25. A 51-year-old female undergoing an outpatient stress echocardiogram to evaluate atypical chest pain developed acute ST elevation in the anterior precordial leads on electrocardiogram following exercise. Echoca...

    Authors: Tung H Nguyen, Leonardo C Clavijo and Tasneem Z Naqvi
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:18
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  26. Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) has been considered a major determinant of early outcome in acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Myocardial performance index (MPI) has been associated to early evolutio...

    Authors: Lilian P Souza, Orlando Campos, Clovis A Peres, Cristiano V Machado and Antonio C Carvalho
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2011 9:17
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  27. 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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  28. 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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  29. 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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  30. 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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  31. 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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  32. 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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  33. 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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  34. 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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  35. 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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  36. 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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  37. 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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  38. 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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  39. 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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  40. 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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  41. 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
    Content type: Review Published on:

  42. 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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  43. 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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  44. 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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  45. 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:

  46. 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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  49. 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
    Content type: Technical notes Published on:

  50. 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
    Content type: Case report Published on:
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