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  1. This review article is aimed at comparing the results of histopathological and clinical imaging studies to assess coronary collateral circulation in humans. The role of collaterals, as emerging from morphologi...

    Authors: Giorgio Baroldi, Riccardo Bigi and Lauro Cortigiani
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2005 3:6
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  2. The appropriate evaluation of atrial electrical function is only possible by means of invasive electrophysiology techniques, which are expensive and therefore not suitable for widespread use. Mechanical atrial...

    Authors: Miguel Quintana, Peter Lindell, Samir K Saha, Francesca del Furia, Britta Lind, Satish Govind and Lars-Åke Brodin
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2005 3:4
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  6. Ritter's method is a tool used to optimize AV delay in DDD pacemaker patients with normal left ventricular function only. The goal of our study was to evaluate Ritter's method in AV delay-interval optimization...

    Authors: C Melzer, AC Borges, F Knebel, WS Richter, W Combs, G Baumann and H Theres
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2004 2:30
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  9. Myocardial contrast echocardiography (MCE) allows visualization of radiofrequency (RF) ablation lesions in the left ventricle in an animal model. Aim: To test whether MCE allows visualization of RF and cryo ab...

    Authors: Tamas Szili-Torok, Geert-Jan Kimman, Marcoen Scholten, Andrew Thornton, Folkert Ten Cate, Jos Roelandt and Luc Jordaens
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2004 2:27
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  10. After percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA), stress-echocardiography and gated single photon emission computerized tomography (g-SPECT) are usually performed but both tools have technical limit...

    Authors: Silvana Cicala, Maurizio Galderisi, Pasquale Guarini, Arcangelo D'Errico, Pasquale Innelli, Moira Pardo, Giancarlo Scognamiglio and Oreste de Divitiis
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2004 2:26
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  12. Hand-carried ultrasound (HCU) devices have been demonstrated to improve the diagnosis of cardiac diseases over physical examination, and have the potential to broaden the versatility in ultrasound application....

    Authors: Jeane M Tsutsui, Raquel R Maciel, Joicely M Costa, Jose L Andrade, Jose F Ramires and Wilson Mathias Jr
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2004 2:24
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  13. Ultrasound-mediated microbubbles destruction has been proposed as an innovative method for noninvasive delivering of drugs and genes to different tissues. Microbubbles are used to carry a drug or gene until a ...

    Authors: Jeane M Tsutsui, Feng Xie and Richard Thomas Porter
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2004 2:23
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  14. Low O2 tension dilates coronary arteries and high O2 tension is a coronary vasoconstrictor but reports on O2-dependent effects on ventricular performance diverge. Yet oxygen supplementation remains first line tre...

    Authors: Ole Frøbert, Jacob Moesgaard, Egon Toft, Steen Hvitfeldt Poulsen and Peter Søgaard
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2004 2:22
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  15. Previous studies have shown that atherosclerosis of the descending aorta detected by transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is a good marker of coexisting coronary artery disease. The aim of our study was to e...

    Authors: Albert Varga, Noemi Gruber, Tamás Forster, Györgyi Piros, Kálmán Havasi, Éva Jebelovszki and Miklos Csanády
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2004 2:21
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  16. Intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) is a useful tool for guiding transseptal puncture during electrophysiological mapping and ablation procedures. Left-sided accessory pathways (LSAP) can be ablated by using t...

    Authors: Rodolfo Citro, Valentino Ducceschi, Alessandro Salustri, Michele Santoro, Michele Salierno and Giovanni Gregorio
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2004 2:20
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  17. Mitral annular calcification (MAC) and aortic annular calcification (AVC) may represent a manifestation of generalized atherosclerosis in the elederly. Alterations in vascular structure, as indexed by the inti...

    Authors: Luca Sgorbini, Angelo Scuteri, Massimo Leggio and Francesco Leggio
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2004 2:19
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  19. Asynchronous myocardial contraction in heart failure is associated with poor prognosis. Resynchronization can be achieved by biventricular pacing (BVP), which leads to clinical improvement and reverse remodeli...

    Authors: Fabian Knebel, Rona Katharina Reibis, Hans-Jürgen Bondke, Joachim Witte, Torsten Walde, Stephan Eddicks, Gert Baumann and Adrian Constantin Borges
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2004 2:17
    Content type: Review Published on:

  20. Ultrasound contrast agents (UCAs) allow the enhancement of vascular definition, thereby providing more diagnostic information. LK565 is a new second-generation UCA based on synthetic polymers of aspartic acid ...

    Authors: B Funke, HK Maerz, S Okorokow, S Polata, I Lehmann, U Sack, P Wild, T Geisler and RJ Zotz
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2004 2:16
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  23. We report on a woman with previously unknown left atrial myxoma, who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention. 45 months after the initial coronary angiography, echocardiography demonstrated a large atrial...

    Authors: Hans-Peter Dübel, Fabian Knebel, Volker Gliech, Wolfgang Konertz, Wolfgang Rutsch, Gert Baumann and Adrian Constantin Borges
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2004 2:13
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  25. Echocardiography has the ability to noninvasively explore hemodynamic variables during pharmacologic or exercise stress test in patients with heart failure. In this review, we detail some important potential a...

    Authors: Eustachio Agricola, Michele Oppizzi, Matteo Pisani and Alberto Margonato
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2004 2:11
    Content type: Review Published on:

  26. Endothelial function in hypercholesterolemic rabbits is usually evaluated ex vivo on isolated aortic rings. In vivo evaluation requires invasive imaging procedures that cannot be repeated serially.

    Authors: Marie-Claude Drolet, Éric Plante, Bruno Battistini, Jacques Couet and Marie Arsenault
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2004 2:10
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  27. Atrial septal defect closure is now routinely performed using a percutaneous approach under echocardiographic guidance. Centrally located, secundum defects are ideal for device closure but there is considerabl...

    Authors: Andrew RJ Mitchell, Philip Roberts, Jonas Eichhöfer, Jonathan Timperley and Oliver JM Ormerod
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2004 2:9
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  30. Electrophysiological mapping and ablation techniques are increasingly used to diagnose and treat many types of supraventricular and ventricular tachycardias. These procedures require an intimate knowledge of i...

    Authors: T Szili-Torok, EP McFadden, LJ Jordaens and JRTC Roelandt
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2004 2:6
    Content type: Review Published on:

  31. Patients with interatrial communications after paradoxical embolic events are at risk for recurrent thromboembolism. We hypothesized that transcatheter closure of the defects would result in long-term preventi...

    Authors: Fabian Knebel, Volker Gliech, Torsten Walde, Alexander Panda, Wasiem Sanad, Stephan Eddicks, Gert Baumann and Adrian C Borges
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2004 2:5
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  34. The foramen ovale is considered an unidirectional flap-like valvular structure. Yet, it may increase in size and allow a continuous left-to-right shunt in order to reduce left ventricular filling pressures.

    Authors: Giuseppe Ando', Fabrizio Tomai and Pier A Gioffre'
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2004 2:2
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  35. Power Doppler (PD) has improved diagnostic capabilities of vascular sonography, mainly because it is independent from the angle of insonation. We evaluated this technique in a prospective comparison with conve...

    Authors: Agatino Manganaro, Giuseppe Ando', Antonino Salvo, Andrea Consolo, Frank Coppolino and Domenico Giannino
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2004 2:1
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  36. Studies suggest the physical and mechanical properties of vessel walls and plaque may be of clinical value in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular atherosclerotic disease. The purpose of this pilot st...

    Authors: Kumar V Ramnarine, Tim Hartshorne, Yvonne Sensier, May Naylor, Joanne Walker, A Ross Naylor, Ronney B Panerai and David H Evans
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2003 1:17
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  37. Improvements in ultrasound technology has enabled direct, transthoracic visualization of long portions of coronary arteries : the left anterior descending (LAD), circumflex (Cx) and right coronary artery (RCA)...

    Authors: Marek Krzanowski, Wojciech Bodzoń and Paweł Petkow Dimitrow
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2003 1:16
    Content type: Technical notes Published on:

  39. Simultaneous electrical stimulation of both ventricles in patients with interventricular conduction disturbance and advanced heart failure improves hemodynamics and results in increased exercise tolerance, qua...

    Authors: Tamas Szili-Torok, Boudewijn J Krenning, Marco M Voormolen and Jos RTC Roelandt
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2003 1:14
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  40. It has been suggested that an extensive contractile reserve identified recognised by means of dobutamine stress echocardiography may predict a better prognosis in patients with severe left ventricular dysfunct...

    Authors: Stefano Ghio, Cristina Constantin, Claudia Raineri, Alessandra Fontana, Catherine Klersy, Carlo Campana and Luigi Tavazzi
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2003 1:13
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  42. We describe a method for 3-/4D reconstruction of tissue Doppler data from three standard apical planes, post processing to derived data of strain rate / strain and parametric colour imaging of the data. The da...

    Authors: Asbjørn Støylen, Charlotte B Ingul and Hans Torp
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2003 1:11
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  43. Right-sided endocarditis occurs predominantly in intravenous drug users, patients with pacemakers or central venous lines and with congenital heart diseases. The vast majority of cases involve the tricuspid va...

    Authors: Stéphane Cosson, Jean-Philippe Kevorkian, Paul Milliez, Philippe Beaufils and Ariel Cohen
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2003 1:10
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  44. The aim of the study was to determine the relationship between the rate of peak early mitral inflow velocity and the peak early diastolic mitral annular tissue velocities in normal controls and to compare them...

    Authors: Gerard J King, Jerome B Foley, Faisal Almane, Peter A Crean and Michael J Walsh
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2003 1:9
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  45. Epidemiological and clinical studies frequently use echocardiography to measure LV wall thicknesses and chamber dimension for estimating quantitative measures of LV mass. While echocardiographic M-mode LV imag...

    Authors: Donna K Arnett, Thomas N Skelton, Philip R Liebson, Emelia Benjamin and Richard G Hutchinson
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2003 1:8
    Content type: Research Published on:

  46. The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic potential of low-dose adenosine stress echocardiography in detection of myocardial viability.

    Authors: Ana Djordjevic-Dikic, Miodrag Ostojic, Branko Beleslin, Ivana Nedeljkovic, Jelena Stepanovic, Sinisa Stojkovic, Zorica Petrasinovic, Milan Nedeljkovic, Jovica Saponjski and Vojislav Giga
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2003 1:7
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  50. Strain Rate Imaging shows the filling phases of the left ventricle to consist of a wave of myocardial stretching, propagating from base to apex. The propagation velocity of the strain rate wave is reduced in d...

    Authors: Asbjørn Støylen, Gunnar Skjelvan and Terje Skjaerpe
    Citation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2003 1:3
    Content type: Research Published on:
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