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  1. This study sought to examine layer-specific longitudinal and circumferential systolic and diastolic strain, strain rate (SR) and diastolic time intervals in hypertensive patients with and without diastolic dys...

    Authors: Hisham Sharif, Stephen Ting, Lynsey Forsythe, Gordon McGregor, Prithwish Banerjee, Deborah O’Leary, David Ditor, Keith George, Daniel Zehnder and David Oxborough
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2018 5:5010011
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  2. Background: Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) and global longitudinal strain (GLS) play important roles in diagnosis and management of cardiac diseases. However, the issue of the accuracy and reliability ...

    Authors: Yasufumi Nagata, Kado Yuichiro, Onoue Takeshi, Otani Kyoko, Nakazono Akemi, Otsuji Yutaka and Takeuchi Masaaki
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2018 5:501004
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  3. This focused review presents a critical appraisal of the World Heart Federation criteria for the echocardiographic diagnosis of rheumatic heart disease (RHD) and its performance in African RHD screening progra...

    Authors: L. D. Hunter, M. Monaghan, G. Lloyd, A. J. K. Pecoraro, A. F. Doubell and P. G. Herbst
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2017 4:4040010
    Content type: Review Published on:

  4. We present a rare complication of deep venous thrombosis with pulmonary embolism that threatened the patient with systemic embolization. A 36-year-old female was referred to the hospital after five days of pro...

    Authors: V. S. Ellensen, S. Saeed, T. Geisner and R. Haaverstad
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2017 4:404009
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  5. 76-year-old female presented following an episode of collapse. She was hypotensive with the paramedics and remained refractory despite fluid resuscitation. Her initial baseline tests revealed an elevated tropo...

    Authors: Ying X. Gue, Sanjay S. Bhandari and Mubarak Ahamed
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2017 4:404008
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  6. A 54-year-old male developed a left ventricular pseudoaneurysm (Ps) along the lateral wall of the left ventricle (LV), which was diagnosed incidentally by two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography (2DTTE)...

    Authors: Rienzi Díaz-Navarro and Petros Nihoyannopoulos
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2017 4:404007
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  7. We present the case of a previously fit 84-year-old female with long-standing systemic hypertension and the echo phenotype of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM)–asymmetrical septal hypertrophy, significant rest...

    Authors: Camelia Demetrescu, Shelley Rahman Haley and Aigul Baltabaeva
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2017 4:404006
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  8. Echocardiography is valuable for urgent assessment of the haemodynamic significance of pericardial effusions and thus assisting in the clinical diagnosis of cardiac tamponade. Classical echocardiographic findi...

    Authors: Benoy N. Shah and Dhrubo J. Rakhit
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2017 4:404005
    Content type: Images and Videos Published on:

  9. A 62-year-old male with pulmonary fibrosis and aortic valve stenosis underwent TAVI (Corevalve Evolut XL 34 mm) in the build-up for lung transplantation (LuTx). Following post-dilation for a large annular peri...

    Authors: Corstiaan A. den Uil, Mihai Strachinaru, Ben van der Hoven and J. Han J. Meeder
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2017 4:404004
    Content type: Images and Videos Published on:

  11. Background: Several studies have reported the accuracy and reproducibility of HeartModel for automated determination of three-dimensional echocardiography (3DE)-derived left heart volumes and left ventricular (LV...

    Authors: Xiu-Xia Luo, Fang Fang, Hung-Kwan So, Chao Liu, Man-Ching Yam and Alex Pui-Wai Lee
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2017 4:404002
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  12. Transoesophageal echocardiography (TOE) is frequently performed prior to atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation to exclude left atrial appendage (LAA) thrombus. However, patients undergoing AF ablation are usually ...

    Authors: Charlotte Atkinson, Jonathan Hinton, Edmund B. Gaisie, Arthur M. Yue, Paul R. Roberts, Dhrubo J. Rakhit and Benoy N. Shah
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2017 4:404001
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  13. Three-dimensional (3D) printing is a rapidly evolving technology with several potential applications in the diagnosis and management of cardiac disease. Recently, 3D printing (i.e. rapid prototyping) derived f...

    Authors: Azad Mashari, Mario Montealegre-Gallegos, Ziyad Knio, Lu Yeh, Jelliffe Jeganathan, Robina Matyal, Kamal R. Khabbaz and Feroze Mahmood
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2017 3:304004
    Content type: Review Published on:

  14. Authors: Richard P. Steeds, Martin R. Cowie, Bushra S. Rana, John B. Chambers, Simon Ray, Janaki Srinivasan, Konstantin Schwarz, Christopher J. Neil, Caroline Scally, John D. Horowitz, Michael P. Frenneaux, Cristina Pislaru, Dana K. Dawson, Oliver J. Rothwell, Keith George, John D. Somauroo…
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2017 4:4030010
    Content type: Meeting Report Published on:

  15. Isolated myocardial involvement in tuberculosis is exceedingly rare but there are reports it can present with sudden cardiac death, atrioventricular block, ventricular arrhythmias or congestive cardiac failure...

    Authors: Alice Cowley, Laura Dobson, John Kurian and Christopher Saunderson
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2017 4:403009
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  16. A rare isolated double orifice mitral valve (DOMV) was diagnosed in a 77-year-old male patient, being assessed for surgical repair of the ascending aorta. This is a rare congenital abnormality, usually discove...

    Authors: Nuno Pires, Wei Li, Roxy Senior and Rajdeep S. Khattar
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2017 4:403008
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  17. This is a case of a precarious thrombotic mass straddling a patent foramen ovale which had already embolised to the pulmonary circulation. The diagnosis was initially deceptive and management challenging.

    Authors: H. Z. R. McConkey, M. Ghosh-Dastidar, S. R. Redwood and V. Bapat
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2017 4:403007
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  18. Cardiac amyloidosis (CA) is relatively rare and frequently misdiagnosed. Other disorders presenting with increased left ventricular (LV) mass can mimic its diagnosis. This case illustrates unique findings of p...

    Authors: Sergio Barros-Gomes, Niyada Naksuk, Dragan Jevremovic and Hector R. Villarraga
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2017 4:403006
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  19. A 73-year-old male was brought into hospital with chest pain and inferior ST elevation on ECG. The patient immediately proceeded to the catheter lab for primary percutaneous coronary intervention. Angiography ...

    Authors: Ying X. Gue, Sanjay S. Bhandari and Damian J. Kelly
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2017 4:403005
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  20. Pulmonary valve endocarditis is a rare type of infective endocarditis (IE). Streptococcus pneumoniae is a pathogen that is uncommonly associated with IE. A 50 year-old male was referred to us after an incidental ...

    Authors: Vrettos Apostolos, Paula Mota, James Nash, Iain Thorp, Max Baghai and Adam Marzetti
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2017 4:403004
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  23. Background The rate of progression of aortic regurgitation (AR) is not well described. Current guidelines state that asymptomatic patients with mild AR should be followed up every 3–5 years and 1–2 yearly for mod...

    Authors: Sveeta Badiani, Jet Zalen, Saad Saheecha, Lesley Hart, Ann Topham, Nikhil Patel, Lydia Sturridge, Andrew Marshall, Neil Sulke, Stephen Furniss and Lloyd Guy
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2017 4:403001
    Content type: Research Published on:

  24. A 69-year-old male, an ex-smoker, was admitted with ongoing chest pain of 11 h duration. Past medical history included treated hypertension and gastro-oesophageal reflux disease. He delayed seeking medical att...

    Authors: Baskar Sekar, Joe Martins and Sanjiv Petkar
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2017 4:402007
    Content type: Images and Videos Published on:

  25. A 68-year-old man with a severe ischemic cardiomyopathy underwent left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation (Heart Mate II device) for destination therapy. He presented 49 months after LVAD implantati...

    Authors: Preetham R. Muskala, Taiyeb M. Khumri and Michael L. Main
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2017 4:402006
    Content type: Images and Videos Published on:

  26. A 72-year-old woman presented with sepsis and lower limb ischaemia. Transoesophageal echocardiography (TOE) for suspected endocarditis revealed no cardiac pathology or source of emboli but a large thrombuslike...

    Authors: Sarah R. Blake, Jamal Khan and Adrian Chenzbraun
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2017 4:402005
    Content type: Images and Videos Published on:

  27. Heart failure (HF) is a debilitating and life-threatening condition, with 5-year survival rate lower than breast or prostate cancer. It is the leading cause of hospital admission in over 65s, and these admissi...

    Authors: Thomas Mathew, Lynne Williams, Govardhan Navaratnam, Bushra Rana, Richard Wheeler, Katherine Collins, Allan Harkness, Richard Jones, Dan Knight, Kevin O’Gallagher, David Oxborough, Liam Ring, Julie Sandoval, Martin Stout, Vishal Sharma and Richard P. Steeds
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2017 4:402004
    Content type: Guidelines and Recommendations Published on:

  28. Background Physiologist-led stress echocardiography (PLSE) services provide potential for expansion of SE services and increased productivity for cardiologists. There are however no published data on the feasibil...

    Authors: Jamal N. Khan, Timothy Griffiths, Tamseel Fatima, Andreea Mihai, Zeeshan Mustafa, Kully Sandhu, Robert Butler, Simon Duckett and Grant Heatlie
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2017 4:402003
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  30. Aims Lupus myocarditis occurs in 5–10% of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). No single feature is diagnostic of lupus myocarditis. Speckle tracking echocardiography (STE) can detect subclinical lef...

    Authors: Riëtte Du Toit, Phillip G. Herbst, Annari van Rensburg, Hendrik W. Snyman, Helmuth Reuter and Anton F. Doubell
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2017 4:402001
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  34. Heart failure is appropriately described as an epidemic, with 1–2% of health care expenditure being directed at its management. In England, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has issu...

    Authors: Martin R. Cowie
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2017 4:401004
    Content type: Review Published on:

  36. Aim The role of transoesophageal echocardiography in cardiac interventional structural procedures is well established and appreciated. However, the need for general anaesthesia (GA) throughout the procedure remai...

    Authors: Dimitris Klettas, Emma Alcock, Rafal Dworakowski, Philip MacCarthy and Mark Monaghan
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2017 4:401001
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  37. Cardiac tumors are exceedingly rare (0.001-0.03% in most autopsy series). They can be present anywhere within the heart and can be attached to any surface or be embedded in the myocardium or pericardial space....

    Authors: Rekha Mankad and Joerg Herrmann
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2016 3:304005
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  38. Mitral regurgitation (MR) is the second most common form of valvular disease requiring surgery. Correct identification of surgical candidates and optimising the timing of surgery are key in management. For pri...

    Authors: Boyang Liu, Nicola C. Edwards, Simon Ray and Richard P. Steeds
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2016 3:304003
    Content type: Review Published on:

  39. Objective: Normal cut-off values for left atrial (LA) size and function may be altered by aging and ethnic differences. No age-related reference values for LA volumetric measurements or LA strain exist in African...

    Authors: Ruchika Meel, Bijoy K. Khandheria, Ferande Peters, Elena Libhaber, Samantha Nel and Mohammed R. Essop
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2016 3:304002
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  40. Introduction: In this study, we aim to reassess the prognostic value of stress echocardiography (SE) in a contemporary population and to evaluate the clinical significance of limited apical ischaemia, which has n...

    Authors: Alexandros Papachristidis, Damian Roper, Daniela Cassar Demarco, Ioannis Tsironis, Michael Papitsas, Jonathan Byrne, Khaled Alfakih and Mark J. Monaghan
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2016 3:304001
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  41. This is a practical description of how replacement valves are assessed using echocardiography. Normal transthoracic appearances including normal variants are described. The problem of differentiating normal fu...

    Authors: John B. Chambers
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2016 3:303007
    Content type: Review Published on:

  42. Introduction: Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) is an inherited pathology that can increase the risk of sudden death. Current task force criteria for echocardiographic diagnosis do not inc...

    Authors: Mohammad Qasem, Victor Utomi, Keith George, John Somauroo, Abbas Zaidi, Lynsey Forsythe, Sanjeev Bhattacharrya, Guy Lloyd, Bushra Rana, Liam Ring, Shaun Robinson, Roxy Senior, Nabeel Sheikh, Mushemi Sitali, Julie Sandoval, Richard Steeds…
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2016 3:303005
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  43. Herceptin (Trastuzumab) is a widely used and effective drug for the treatment of Her2+ breast cancer but its cardiotoxic side effects require regular monitoring by echocardiography. A 10% reduction in left ven...

    Authors: A. King, J. Thambyrajah, E. Leng and M. J. Stewart
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2016 3:303004
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  44. A 28-year-old asymptomatic woman was referred to our clinic for evaluation of a heart murmur. Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) demonstrated ventricular hypertrophy with septal thickness of 26 mm, consisten...

    Authors: Umut Kocabas, Esra Kaya and Cahide Soydas Cinar
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2016 3:303006
    Content type: Images and Videos Published on:

  45. Background: Cardiotoxicity from anthracycline-based chemotherapy is an important cause of early and late morbidity and mortality in breast cancer patients. Left ventricular (LV) function is assessed for patien...

    Authors: Kevin Emery Boczar, Olexiy Aseyev, Jeffrey Sulpher, Christopher Johnson, Ian G. Burwash, Michele Turek, Susan Dent and Girish Dwivedi
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2016 3:303003
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  46. Objective: To assess the impact of mitral geometry, left ventricular (LV) remodelling and global LV afterload on mitral regurgitation (MR) after trans-catheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI).

    Authors: Y. Tayyareci, R. Dworakowski, P. Kogoj, J. Reiken, C. Kenny, P. MacCarthy, O. Wendler and M. J. Monaghan
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2016 3:303002
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  47. Background: Ultrasound-assisted examination of the cardiovascular system with focused cardiac ultrasound by the treating physician is non-invasive and changes diagnosis and management of patient’s with suspect...

    Authors: James Yates, Colin Forbes Royse, Carolyn Royse, Alistair George Royse and David Jeffrey Canty
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2016 3:303001
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  48. Background: Left atrial deformation (LAD) parameters are new markers of atrial structural remodelling that seem to be affected in atrial fibrillation (AF) and atrial flutter (AFL). This study aimed to determin...

    Authors: Cátia Costa, Teresa González-Alujas, Filipa Valente, Carlos Aranda, José Rodríguez-Palomares, Laura Gutierrez, Giuliana Maldonado, Laura Galian, Gisela Teixidó and Artur Evangelista
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2016 3:302004
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  49. Background In this study, we investigate the correlation between reduced global longitudinal peak systolic strain (GLPSS) and the SYNTAX score (SS) in patients undergoing coronary angiography.

    Authors: Apostolos Vrettos, David Dawson, Chrysanthos Grigoratos and Petros Nihoyannopoulos
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2016 3:302002
    Content type: Research Published on:
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