| | Other Issues: previous | next | latest | archiveCase Reports Interventricular septum hematoma during cineventriculography Andrea Grohmann, Thomas Elgeti, Stephan Eddicks, Fabian Knebel, Wolfgang Rutsch, Christoph Melzer, Gert Baumann, and Adrian C Borges PMCID: PMC2257924 Acute severe mitral regurgitation: consideration of papillary muscle architecture Andrew Czarnecki, Amar Thakrar, Tielan Fang, Matthew Lytwyn, Roien Ahmadie, Edward Pascoe, and Davinder S Jassal PMCID: PMC2248568 The role of Intravascular Ultrasound in the management of spontaneous coronary artery dissection Jayanth R Arnold, Nick EJ West, William J van Gaal, Theodoros D Karamitsos, and Adrian P Banning PMCID: PMC2429898 Hyperthyroidism as a reversible cause of right ventricular overload and congestive heart failure Raniero Di Giovambattista PMCID: PMC2440368 Transient left ventricular apical ballooning and exercise induced hypertension during treadmill exercise testing: is there a common hypersympathetic mechanism? Abhijeet Dhoble, Sahar S Abdelmoneim, Mathieu Bernier, Jae K Oh, and Sharon L Mulvagh PMCID: PMC2490681 Echocardiographic manifestation of hiatus hernia simulating a left atrial mass: Case report Konstantinos C Koskinas, Kostas Oikonomou, Eleni Karapatsoudi, and Pantelis Makridis PMCID: PMC2553061 Effort angina in a patient with advanced coronary artery disease. Role played by coronary angiography, Ivus and cardiac CT: case report Domenico M Zardi, Enrico M Zardi, Andrea Berni, Cristiana Nannini, Biagio Andrea Pace, Stefano Santucci, and Massimo Volpe PMCID: PMC2561006 Persistent left superior vena cava: a case report and review of literature Sandeep K Goyal, Sujeeth R Punnam, Gita Verma, and Frederick L Ruberg PMCID: PMC2576163 Primary lung tumour visualised by transthoracic echocardiography Magnus Dencker, Carin Cronberg, Sabine Damm, Sven Valind, and Monica Wadbo PMCID: PMC2614958 Hypothesis A simplified study of trans-mitral Doppler patterns George Thomas PMCID: PMC2607254 Reviews Usefulness and limitations of transthoracic echocardiography in heart transplantation recipients Sergio Mondillo, Massimo Maccherini, and Maurizio Galderisi PMCID: PMC2249582 Role of carotid duplex imaging in carotid screening programmes – an overview Muhammad A Saleem, Umar Sadat, Stewart R Walsh, Victoria E Young, Jonathan H Gillard, David G Cooper, and Michael E Gaunt PMCID: PMC2474588 Echocardiography practice, training and accreditation in the intensive care: document for the World Interactive Network Focused on Critical Ultrasound (WINFOCUS) Susanna Price, Gabriele Via, Erik Sloth, Fabio Guarracino, Raoul Breitkreutz, Emanuele Catena, Daniel Talmor, and World Interactive Network Focused On Critical UltraSound ECHO-ICU Group PMCID: PMC2586628 Tissue Doppler and strain imaging: anything left in the echo-lab? Rodolfo Citro, Eduardo Bossone, Bettina Kuersten, Giovanni Gregorio, and Alessandro Salustri PMCID: PMC2583989 Left atrioventricular remodeling in the assessment of the left ventricle diastolic function in patients with heart failure: a review of the currently studied echocardiographic variables Luiz C Danzmann, Luiz Carlos Bodanese, Ilmar Köhler, and Marco R Torres PMCID: PMC2615425 Technical Notes Transthoracic echocardiographic imaging of coronary arteries: tips, traps, and pitfalls Fausto Rigo, Bruno Murer, Giovanni Ossena, and Enrico Favaretto PMCID: PMC2268663 Flow-volume loops derived from three-dimensional echocardiography: a novel approach to the assessment of left ventricular hemodynamics Kambiz Shahgaldi, Emil Söderqvist, Petri Gudmundsson, Reidar Winter, Jacek Nowak, and Lars-Åke Brodin PMCID: PMC2322957 Research Fusion beat in patients with heart failure treated with left ventricular pacing: may ECG morphology relate to mechanical synchrony? A pilot study Lorella Gianfranchi, Katia Bettiol, Biagio Sassone, Roberto Verlato, Giorgio Corbucci, and Paolo Alboni PMCID: PMC2243262 Exercise-induced intra-ventricular gradients as a frequent potential cause of myocardial ischemia in cardiac syndrome X patients Carlos Cotrim, Ana G Almeida, and Manuel Carrageta PMCID: PMC2253520 Ultrasound settings significantly alter arterial lumen and wall thickness measurements Kathleen Potter, Christopher J Reed, Daniel J Green, Graeme J Hankey, and Leonard F Arnolda PMCID: PMC2254584 The cardiovascular profile of soccer referees: an echocardiographic study G Galanti, A Pizzi, M Lucarelli, L Stefani, M Gianassi, V Di Tante, L Toncelli, A Moretti, and F Del Furia PMCID: PMC2259300 Acute effects of caffeine and cigarette smoking on ventricular long-axis function in healthy subjects Elisa Giacomin, Elisabetta Palmerini, Piercarlo Ballo, Valerio Zacà, Giovanni Bova, and Sergio Mondillo PMCID: PMC2288591 B-mode ultrasound common carotid artery intima-media thickness and external diameter: cross-sectional and longitudinal associations with carotid atherosclerosis in a large population sample Marsha L Eigenbrodt, Zoran Bursac, Richard E Tracy, Jawahar L Mehta, Kathryn M Rose, and David J Couper PMCID: PMC2277382 Clinical utility of tissue Doppler imaging in patients with acute myocardial infarction complicated by cardiogenic shock Adnan K Hameed, Tirath Gosal, Tielan Fang, Roien Ahmadie, Matthew Lytwyn, Ivan Barac, Shelley Zieroth, Farrukh Hussain, and Davinder S Jassal PMCID: PMC2311277 Feasibility and diagnostic power of transthoracic coronary Doppler for coronary flow velocity reserve in patients referred for myocardial perfusion imaging Eva Maret, Jan Engvall, Eva Nylander, and Jan Ohlsson PMCID: PMC2292686 Supernormal functional reserve of apical segments in elite soccer players: an ultrasound speckle tracking handgrip stress study Laura Stefani, Loira Toncelli, Valentina Di Tante, Maria Concetta Roberta Vono, Brunello Cappelli, Gianni Pedrizzetti, and Giorgio Galanti PMCID: PMC2329600 Diastolic time – frequency relation in the stress echo lab: filling timing and flow at different heart rates Tonino Bombardini, Vincenzo Gemignani, Elisabetta Bianchini, Lucia Venneri, Christina Petersen, Emilio Pasanisi, Lorenza Pratali, David Alonso-Rodriguez, Mascia Pianelli, Francesco Faita, Massimo Giannoni, Giorgio Arpesella, and Eugenio Picano PMCID: PMC2365937 Chest sonography: a useful tool to differentiate acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema from acute respiratory distress syndrome Roberto Copetti, Gino Soldati, and Paolo Copetti PMCID: PMC2386861 Myocardial dysfunction in the periinfarct and remote regions following anterior infarction in rats quantified by 2D radial strain echocardiography: An observational cohort study Raymond Q Migrino, Xiaoguang Zhu, Mineshkumar Morker, Tejas Brahmbhatt, Megan Bright, and Ming Zhao PMCID: PMC2397379 Distribution of ultrasonic radiofrequency signal amplitude detects lipids in atherosclerotic plaque of coronary arteries: an ex-vivo study Hisao Hara, Taro Tsunoda, Naohiko Nemoto, Itaru Yokouchi, Masaya Yamamoto, Tsuyoshi Ono, Masao Moroi, Makoto Suzuki, Kaoru Sugi, and Masato Nakamura PMCID: PMC2391144 Evaluation of left ventricular outflow tract gradient during treadmill exercise and in recovery period in orthostatic position, in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy Rita Miranda, Carlos Cotrim, Nuno Cardim, Sofia Almeida, Luís Lopes, Maria José Loureiro, Otília Simões, Pedro Cordeiro, Paula Fazendas, Isabel João, and Manuel Carrageta PMCID: PMC2413212 Prognostic implications of negative dobutamine stress echocardiography in African Americans compared to Caucasians Ajay V Srivastava, Karthik Ananthasubramaniam, Salil J Patel, Natesh Lingam, and Gordon Jacobsen PMCID: PMC2408564 Economic analysis including long-term risks and costs of alternative diagnostic strategies to evaluate patients with chest pain Gigliola Bedetti, Emilio Maria Pasanisi, Carmine Pizzi, Giuseppe Turchetti, and Cosimo Loré PMCID: PMC2435520 Three-dimensional mapping of mechanical activation patterns, contractile dyssynchrony and dyscoordination by two-dimensional strain echocardiography: Rationale and design of a novel software toolbox Bart WL De Boeck, Borut Kirn, Arco J Teske, Ralph W Hummeling, Pieter A Doevendans, Maarten J Cramer, and Frits W Prinzen PMCID: PMC2429897 The elusive link between high sensitivity C-reactive protein and carotid subclinical atherosclerosis in coronary artery bypass grafting candidates: A cross-sectional study Parvin Shakouri, Nariman Nezami, Mohammad Kazem Tarzamni, and Reza Javad Rashid PMCID: PMC2440732 Effects of cognac on coronary flow reserve and plasma antioxidant status in healthy young men Tuomas O Kiviniemi, Antti Saraste, Jyri O Toikka, Markku Saraste, Olli T Raitakari, Jussi P Pärkkä, Terho Lehtimäki, Jaakko J Hartiala, Jorma Viikari, and Juha W Koskenvuo PMCID: PMC2427009 Assessment of left ventricular volumes using simplified 3-D echocardiography and computed tomography – a phantom and clinical study Mattias Mårtensson, Reidar Winter, Kerstin Cederlund, Jonaz Ripsweden, Habib Mir-Akbari, Jacek Nowak, and Lars-Åke Brodin PMCID: PMC2426675 Myocardial involvement during the early course of type 2 diabetes mellitus: usefulness of Myocardial Performance Index Paolo Pattoneri, Fabiola B Sozzi, Elisabetta Catellani, Antonella Piazza, Roberto Iotti, Massimo Michelini, Matteo Goldoni, Alberico Borghetti, Maria Domenica Cappellini, and Valeria Manicardi PMCID: PMC2430540 Circumferential 2D-strain imaging for the prediction of long term response to cardiac resynchronization therapy Fabian Knebel, Sebastian Schattke, Hansjürgen Bondke, Stephan Eddicks, Andrea Grohmann, Gert Baumann, and Adrian C Borges PMCID: PMC2435102 The diagnostic accuracy of pharmacological stress echocardiography for the assessment of coronary artery disease: a meta-analysis Eugenio Picano, Sabrina Molinaro, and Emilio Pasanisi PMCID: PMC2443362 Head to head comparison of 2D vs real time 3D dipyridamole stress echocardiography Silvia Varnero, Patricia Santagata, Lorenza Pratali, Massimiliano Basso, Alfredo Gandolfo, and Paolo Bellotti PMCID: PMC2474587 Sequentially based analysis versus image based analysis of Intima Media Thickness in common carotid arteries studies - Do major IMT studies underestimate the true relations for cardio- and cerebrovascular risk? M Sandrock, J Hansel, J Schulze, D Schmitz, A Niess, H Burkhardt, and A Schmidt-Trucksaess PMCID: PMC2443112 Understanding atrioventricular septal defect: Anatomoechocardiographic correlation Nilda Espinola-Zavaleta, Luís Muñoz-Castellanos, Magdalena Kuri-Nivón, and Candace Keirns PMCID: PMC2453104 Atrial natriuretic peptide and three-dimensional echocardiography after transcatheter closure of atrial septal defect Jingdong Ding, Genshan Ma, Yaoyao Huang, Xiaoli Zhang, Biao Liu, and Fengxiang Lu PMCID: PMC2467405 Correlates of preclinical cardiovascular disease in Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians: a case control study Brian A Haluska, Lionel Chan, Leanne Jeffriess, A Andrew Shaw, Joanne Shaw, and Thomas H Marwick PMCID: PMC2500007 Three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography of the atrial septal defects Francisco-Javier Roldán, Jesús Vargas-Barrón, Clara Vázquez-Antona, Luis Muñoz Castellanos, Julio Erdmenger-Orellana, Ángel Romero-Cárdenas, and Marco-Antonio Martínez-Ríos PMCID: PMC2526079 Cardiac incoordination induced by left bundle branch block: its relation with left ventricular systolic function in patients with and without cardiomyopathy Miguel Quintana, Samir Saha, Satish Govind, Lars Åke Brodin, Francesca del Furia, and Vicente Bertomeu PMCID: PMC2525630 Intraventricular dyssynchrony in light chain amyloidosis: a new mechanism of systolic dysfunction assessed by 3-dimensional echocardiography Raymond Q Migrino, Leanne Harmann, Timothy Woods, Megan Bright, Seth Truran, and Parameswaran Hari PMCID: PMC2525629 Arterial pressure changes monitoring with a new precordial noninvasive sensor Tonino Bombardini, Vincenzo Gemignani, Elisabetta Bianchini, Lucia Venneri, Christina Petersen, Emilio Pasanisi, Lorenza Pratali, Mascia Pianelli, Francesco Faita, Massimo Giannoni, Giorgio Arpesella, and Eugenio Picano PMCID: PMC2531180 Reproducibility of 3-dimensional ultrasound readings of volume of carotid atherosclerotic plaque Malte Ludwig, Tomasz Zielinski, Dieter Schremmer, and Klaus O Stumpe PMCID: PMC2531085 Endothelial function and urine albumin levels among asymptomatic Mexican-Americans and non-Hispanic whites Julius M Gardin, Zuhair Allebban, Nathan D Wong, Sharon K Sklar, Renee L Bess, M Anne Spence, and Harrihar A Pershadsingh PMCID: PMC2542998 Normalization of flow-mediated dilation to shear stress area under the curve eliminates the impact of variable hyperemic stimulus Jaume Padilla, Blair D Johnson, Sean C Newcomer, Daniel P Wilhite, Timothy D Mickleborough, Alyce D Fly, Kieren J Mather, and Janet P Wallace PMCID: PMC2542351 Myocardial tissue Doppler echocardiography and N-terminal B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) in diastolic and systolic heart failure Fabian Knebel, Stephan Eddicks, Ingolf Schimke, Michael Bierbaum, Sebastian Schattke, Mark Beling, Vanessa Raab, Gert Baumann, and Adrian C Borges PMCID: PMC2542999 Correlation between Progetto Cuore risk score and early cardiovascular damage in never treated subjects Aldo Pende, Caterina Grondona, and Stefano Bertolini PMCID: PMC2556661 The usefulness of contrast during exercise echocardiography for the assessment of systolic pulmonary pressure Luis R Lopes, Maria J Loureiro, Rita Miranda, Sofia Almeida, Ana R Almeida, Ana Cordeiro, Carlos Cotrim, and Manuel Carrageta PMCID: PMC2570360 Appropriateness of carotid plaque and intima-media thickness assessment in routine clinical practice Liz Andréa Villela Baroncini, Aguinaldo de Oliveira, Enrique Antonio Vidal, Graciliano José França, Paulo Sérgio Dalla Bona Stahlke, Alexandre Alessi, and Dalton Bertolim Précoma PMCID: PMC2576162 Duplex scan in patients with clinical suspicion of deep venous thrombosis Aguinaldo de Oliveira, Graciliano J França, Enrique A Vidal, Paulo SDB Stalke, and Liz AV Baroncini PMCID: PMC2576164 Computer-assisted determination of left ventricular endocardial borders reduces variability in the echocardiographic assessment of ejection fraction Eva Maret, Lars Brudin, Lena Lindstrom, Eva Nylander, Jan L Ohlsson, and Jan E Engvall PMCID: PMC2596088 Comparison of the effect of pressure loading on left ventricular size, systolic and diastolic function in canines with left ventricular dysfunction with preserved and reduced ejection fraction Steven J Lavine and Donald A Conetta PMCID: PMC2626582 Implementation of seven echocardiographic parameters of myocardial asynchrony to improve the long-term response rate of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) Fabian Knebel, Sebastian Schattke, Hansjürgen Bondke, Christoph Richter, Christoph Melzer, Henryk Dreger, Andrea Grohmann, Gert Baumann, and Adrian C Borges PMCID: PMC2613384 Endothelial dysfunction, carotid artery plaque burden, and conventional exercise-induced myocardial ischemia as predictors of coronary artery disease prognosis Bonpei Takase, Yoshihiro Matsushima, Akimi Uehata, Masayuki Ishihara, and Akira Kurita PMCID: PMC2621141 Impact of contractile reserve on acute response to cardiac resynchronization therapy Marie Moonen, Mario Senechal, Bernard Cosyns, Pierre Melon, Eric Nellessen, Luc Pierard, and Patrizio Lancellotti PMCID: PMC2615753 |
