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  1. Assessment of global longitudinal systolic strain (GLS) and longitudinal systolic strain of the basal segments (BLS) has shown prognostic value in cardiac disorders. However, strain is reduced with increased a...

    Authors: Isaac B. Rhea, Shuja Rehman, Upasana Jarori, Muhammad W. Choudhry, Harvey Feigenbaum and Stephen G. Sawada
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2017 3:301003
    Content type: Research Published on:

  3. The incidence of significant obesity is rising across the globe. These patients often have a clustering of cardiovascular risk factors and are frequently referred for noninvasive cardiac imaging tests. Stress ...

    Authors: Benoy N. Shah and Roxy Senior
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2016 3:302008
    Content type: Review Published on:

  4. We present a very rare example of chronic right heart failure caused by torrent tricuspid regurgitation. Massive right heart dilatation and severe tricuspid regurgitation due to avulsion of the tricuspid valve...

    Authors: Francesca Tedoldi, Maximilian Krisper, Clemens Köhncke and Burkert Pieske
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2016 3:302007
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  5. Echocardiography is ideally suited to guide fluid resuscitation in critically ill patients. It can be used to assess fluid responsiveness by looking at the left ventricle, aortic outflow, inferior vena cava an...

    Authors: Miller Ashley and Mandeville Justin
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2016 3:302006
    Content type: Guidelines and Recommendations Published on:

  6. Aim: It is not well known if advancing age influences normal rest or exercise pulmonary artery pressures. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the association of increasing age with measurements of pulmona...

    Authors: Garvan C. Kane, Arun Sachdev, Hector R. Villarraga, Naser M. Ammash, Jae K. Oh, Michael D. McGoon, Patricia A. Pellikka and Robert B. McCully
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2016 3:302005
    Content type: Research Published on:

  7. Background: Pulmonary transit time (PTT) is an indirect measure of preload and left ventricular function, which can be estimated using the indicator dilution theory by contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS). In t...

    Authors: Ingeborg H. F. Herold, Salvatore Saporito, Massimo Mischi, Hans C. van Assen, R. Arthur Bouwman, Anouk G. W. de Lepper, Harrie C. M. van den Bosch, Hendrikus H. M. Korsten and Patrick Houthuizen
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2016 3:302003
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  8. Cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT) can profoundly improve outcome in selected patients with heart failure; however, response is difficult to predict and can be absent in up to one in three patients. There...

    Authors: Sitara GKhan, Dimitris Klettas, Stam Kapetanakis and Mark J. Monaghan
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2016 3:301009
    Content type: Review Published on:

  9. We present the case of a 26-year-old male with acute tonsillitis who was referred for coronary angiography because of chest pain, elevated cardiac biomarkers, and biphasic T waves. The patient had no cardiovas...

    Authors: Thomas Sturmberger, Johannes Niel, Josef Aichinger and Christian Ebner
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2016 3:301008
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  10. In intravenous drug abusers, infective endocarditis usually involves right-sided valves, with Staphylococcus aureus being the most common etiologic agent. We present a patient who is an intravenous drug abuser wi...

    Authors: Rajesh Janardhanan, Muhammad Umar Kamal, Irbaz Bin Riaz and M. Cristy Smith
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2016 3:301007
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  13. The aetiology of sudden cardiac arrest can often be identified to underlying cardiac pathology. Mitral valve prolapse is a relatively common valvular pathology with symptoms manifesting with increasing severit...

    Authors: Mohamed Ahmed, Ashraf Roshdy, Rajan Sharma and Nick Fletcher
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2016 3:301005
    Content type: Echo Education Published on:

  14. Purpose: Pericardial adipose tissue had been shown to exert local effects on adjacent cardiac structures. Data regarding the mechanistic link between such measures and left atrial (LA) structural/functional re...

    Authors: Yau-Huei Lai, Chun-Ho Yun, Cheng-Huang Su, Fei-Shih Yang, Hung-I Yeh, Charles Jia-Yin Hou, Tung-Hsin Wu, Ricardo C. Cury, Hiram G. Bezerra and Chung-Lieh Hung
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2016 3:301002
    Content type: Research Published on:

  15. Transoesophageal echocardiography (TOE) can be used to expedite DC cardioversion (DCCV) in the absence of adequate anticoagulation. There are no guidelines for the management of sedation or general anaesthetic...

    Authors: Nikhil Ahluwalia, Sanjeev Bhattacharyya, Christopher Munns and John Chambers
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2016 3:301001
    Content type: Research Published on:

  18. We present a case of mitral valve (MV) replacement that resulted in multiple complications, as diagnosed by transesophageal echocardiography (TEE), including left ventricular outflow tract obstruction, aortic ...

    Authors: Charles L. Brassard, Claudia Viens, André Denault and Pierre Couture
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2015 2:204006
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  19. Aim: Assessment of right ventricular (RV) function is a challenge, especially in patients with congenital heart disease (CHD). The aim of the present study is to assess whether knowledge-based RV reconstructio...

    Authors: Aleksandra Trzebiatowska-Krzynska, Mieke Driessen, Gertjan Tj Sieswerda, Lars Wallby, Eva Swahn and Folkert Meijboom
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2015 2:204003
    Content type: Research Published on:

  20. Various Doppler-derived parameters of left atrial electrical remodeling have been demonstrated to predict recurrence of atrial fibrillation (AF) after AF ablation. The aim of this study was to compare three Do...

    Authors: Miriam Shanks, Lucas Valtuille, Jonathan B. Choy and Harald Becher
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2015 2:204002
    Content type: Research Published on:

  21. The number of potentially preventable medical errors that occur has been steadily increasing. These are a significant cause of patient morbidity, can lead to life-threatening complications and may result in a ...

    Authors: Clare Quarterman, Nick Fletcher and Vishal Sharma
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2015 2:204001
    Content type: Editorial Published on:

  22. Quantitative analysis is an important part of the morphological assessment of the diseased mitral valve. It can be used to describe valve anatomy, pathology, function and the mechanisms of disease. Echocardiog...

    Authors: Madalina Garbi and Mark J. Monaghan
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2015 2:203007
    Content type: Review Published on:

  23. Spontaneous echo contrast (SEC) is frequently observed in patients with structural and functional cardiovascular abnormalities. Literature describes cases of SEC either from agglutination of red blood cells an...

    Authors: Hena Patel, Stephen Boateng, Gurpreet Singh and Steven Feinstein
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2015 2:203006
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  24. A 77-year-old woman with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis (aortic valve areaZ0.6 cm2 and mean gradientZ 53 mmHg) was deemed inoperable for surgical aortic valve replacement due to a porcelain aorta, and was ...

    Authors: Darwish I. Naji, Adnan Chhatriwalla, David J. Cohen and Michael L. Main
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2015 2:203005
    Content type: Images and Videos Published on:

  25. A 66-year-old woman with a remote history of mitral valve replacement (mechanical bileaflet valve) due to rheumatic heart disease presented with symptoms consistent with infectious endocarditis. Subsequent blo...

    Authors: Darwish I. Naji, Alexander Pak, Jamie Lawless and Michael L. Main
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2015 2:203004
    Content type: Images and Videos Published on:

  26. Stress echocardiography is recommended for the assessment of asymptomatic patients with severe valvular heart disease (VHD) when there is discrepancy between symptoms and resting markers of severity. The aim o...

    Authors: Vishal Sharma, David E. Newby, Ralph A. H. Stewart, Mildred Lee, Ruvin Gabriel, Niels Van Pelt and Andrew J. Kerr
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2015 2:203003
    Content type: Research Published on:

  27. The aim of the present study was to find out whether early cardiac changes in patients receiving chemotherapy can be detected by the conventional and deformation parameters of 2D and 3D echocardiography. Twent...

    Authors: Adrienn Tarr, Stephan Stoebe, Jan Tuennemann, Zsuzsanna Baka, Dietrich Pfeiffer, Albert Varga and Andreas Hagendorff
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2015 2:203002
    Content type: Research Published on:

  28. The present study was carried out to test the feasibility of proximal right coronary artery (RCA) imaging and to detect proximal RCA narrowing and occlusion by 2D and 3D transthoracic echocardiography in compa...

    Authors: Stephan Stoebe, Katharina Lange, Dietrich Pfeiffer and Andreas Hagendorff
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2015 2:203001
    Content type: Research Published on:

  31. This report presents the case of a 42-year-old man with liver cirrhosis who presents with breathlessness. Initial investigations are unable to explain his persistent hypoxia and a diagnosis of hepatopulmonary ...

    Authors: James Offer, Lawrence Green, Andrew R. Houghton and Jim Campbell
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2015 2:202006
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  32. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is an advanced form of organ support indicated in selected cases of severe cardiovascular and respiratory failure. Echocardiography is an invaluable diagnostic and mo...

    Authors: Kelly Victor, Nicholas A. Barrett, Stuart Gillon, Abigail Gowland, Christopher I. S. Meadows and Nicholas Ioannou
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2015 2:202005
    Content type: Echo Education Published on:

  33. Dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE) is widely used during follow-up after cardiac transplant for the diagnosis of allograft vasculopathy. We investigated the effect of donor–recipient age difference on th...

    Authors: Patrick H. Gibson, Fernando Riesgo, Jonathan B. Choy, Daniel H. Kim and Harald Becher
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2015 2:202004
    Content type: Research Published on:

  35. We evaluated the feasibility and costs of utilising hand-held cardiac ultrasound (HHCU) as part of a community-based pre-participation cardiovascular screening programme. Ninety-seven school children were scre...

    Authors: A. R. J. Mitchell, R. Hurry, P. Le Page and H. MacLachlan
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2015 2:202002
    Content type: Research Published on:

  36. In 2010, the National Institute for Heath and Clinical Excellence published guidelines for the management of stable chest pain of recent onset. Implementation has occurred to various degrees throughout the NHS...

    Authors: Arzu Cubukcu, Ian Murray and Simon Anderson
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2015 2:202001
    Content type: Research Published on:

  48. There have been significant advances in the field of echocardiography with the introduction of a number of new techniques into standard clinical practice. Consequently, a ‘standard’ echocardiographic examinati...

    Authors: Gill Wharton, Richard Steeds, Jane Allen, Hollie Phillips, Richard Jones, Prathap Kanagala, Guy Lloyd, Navroz Masani, Thomas Mathew, David Oxborough, Bushra Rana, Julie Sandoval, Richard Wheeler, Kevin O’Gallagher and Vishal Sharma
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2015 2:201007
    Content type: Guidelines and Recommendations Published on:

  49. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a relatively common inherited cardiac condition with a prevalence of approximately one in 500. It results in otherwise unexplained hypertrophy of the myocardium and predisp...

    Authors: Nicola Smith, Richard Steeds, Navroz Masani, Julie Sandoval, Gill Wharton, Jane Allen, John Chambers, Richard Jones, Guy Lloyd, Bushra Rana, Kevin O’Gallagher, Richard Wheeler and Vishal Sharma
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2015 2:201006
    Content type: Guidelines and Recommendations Published on:
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