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  2. Pulmonary hypertension is defined as a mean arterial pressure of ≥25 mmHg as confirmed on right heart catheterisation. Traditionally, the pulmonary arterial systolic pressure has been estimated on echo by util...

    Authors: Daniel X. Augustine, Lindsay D. Coates-Bradshaw, James Willis, Allan Harkness, Liam Ring, Julia Grapsa, Gerry Coghlan, Nikki Kaye, David Oxborough, Shaun Robinson, Julie Sandoval, Bushra S. Rana, Anjana Siva, Petros Nihoyannopoulos, Luke S. Howard, Kevin Fox…
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2018 5:503006
    Content type: Guidelines and Recommendations Published on:

    The Erratum to this article has been published in Echo Research & Practice 2019 6:Art1

  3. Background:Dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE) services have traditionally been medically led. In some UK institutions, DSE lists are led by physiologists with medical support. In our tertiary cardiac cen...

    Authors: Theodoros Ntoskas, Farhanda Ahmad and Paul Woodmansey
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2018 5:503004
    Content type: Research Published on:

  4. Heart failure (HF) is a threat to public health. Heterogeneities in aetiology and phenotype complicate the diagnosis and management of HF. This is especially true when considering HF with preserved ejection fr...

    Authors: Daniel Modin, Ditte Madsen Andersen and Tor Biering-Sørensen
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2018 5:5020014
    Content type: Review Published on:

  5. Echocardiography is the imaging modality of choice to diagnose different types of atrial septal defect and to determine which defects are suitable for catheter occlusion. In addition to assessment of defect si...

    Authors: Alexandra Savis and John Simpson
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2018 5:5020013
    Content type: Review Published on:

  8. Normal values provide the background for interpretation of quantitative imaging data and thus are essential information for daily routine. Nevertheless, the ways how normal values are obtained, presented and i...

    Authors: Frank A. Flachskampf and Petros Nihoyannopoulos
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2018 5:5020010
    Content type: Review Published on:

  10. Our patient presented with known mechanical mitral valve endocarditis documented by 2D transesophageal echocardiogram (TOE) from a recent hospitalization at an outside facility. On admission to our center, the...

    Authors: Merrill Thomas, Anna Grodzinsky and Martin Zink III
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2018 5:502008
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  11. This case describes an unusual presentation of prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE): an acute coronary syndrome. A 67-year-old male presented with cardiac sounding chest pain on a background of a short history ...

    Authors: Baskar Sekar, Richard Wheeler, Navroz Masani and Sean Gallagher
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2018 5:502007
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  12. The 2012 World Heart Federation (WHF) criteria for echocardiographic diagnosis of rheumatic heart disease (RHD) identify that the finding of ‘pathological’ mitral regurgitation (MR) in a screened individual in...

    Authors: L. D. Hunter, M. Monaghan, G. Lloyd, A. J. K. Pecoraro, A. F. Doubell and P. G. Herbst
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2018 5:502006
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  14. The optimal periprocedural imaging strategy during transcathether aortic valve replacement (TAVR) performed under moderate sedation is debated. Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) provides suboptimal views du...

    Authors: Ines Sherifi, Alaa Mabrouk Salem Omar, Mithun Varghese, Menachem Weiner, Ani Anyanwu, Jason C. Kovacic, Samin Sharma, Annapoorna Kini and Partho P. Sengupta
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2018 5:502004
    Content type: Research Published on:

  15. Background: There are limited data on what is the minimum change that can be detected in cancer patients undergoing treatment with cardiotoxic drugs and are referred for monitoring left ventricular (LV) function.

    Authors: Tan Suwatanaviroj, Weimin He, Edith Pituskin, Ian Paterson, Jonathan Choy and Harald Becher
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2018 5:502003
    Content type: Research Published on:

  16. Background: Simpson biplane method and 3D by transthoracic echocardiography (TTE), radionuclide angiography (RNA) and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) are the most accepted techniques for left ventricular...

    Authors: Real Lebeau, Karim Serri, Maria Di Lorenzo, Claude Sauvé, Hoai Viet Van Le, Vicky Soulières, Malak El-Rayes, Maude Pagé, Chimène Zaïani, Jérôme Garot and Frédéric Poulin
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2018 5:502002
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  17. Purpose: The study compares the feasibility of the quantitative volumetric and semi-quantitative approach for quantification of chronic aortic regurgitation (AR) using different imaging modalities.

    Authors: Stephan Stoebe, Michael Metze, Daniel Jurisch, Bhupendar Tayal, Kilian Solty BoA, Ulrich Laufs, Dietrich Pfeiffer and Andreas Hagendorff
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2018 5:502001
    Content type: Research Published on:

  18. Sudden cardiac death (SCD) in an athlete is a rare but tragic event. In view of this, pre-participation cardiac screening is mandatory across many sporting disciplines to identify those athletes at risk. Echoc...

    Authors: David Oxborough, Daniel Augustine, Sabiha Gati, Keith George, Allan Harkness, Thomas Mathew, Michael Papadakis, Liam Ring, Shaun Robinson, Julie Sandoval, Rizwan Sarwar, Sanjay Sharma, Vishal Sharma, Nabeel Sheikh, John Somauroo, Martin Stout…
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2018 5:5010013
    Content type: Guidelines and recommendations Published on:

  19. This is a case report of intracardiac foreign bodies that gained access to the heart by migration from a peripheral vein. The case report describes the diagnostic findings on cardiac imaging and summarizes dif...

    Authors: Islam Fathi Hussein Ali Elsisi and Ananth Kidambi
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2018 5:5010012
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  20. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  22. Background Left ventricular (LV) function is dependent on load, intrinsic contractility and relaxation with a variable impact on specific mechanics. Strain (ε) imaging allows the assessment of cardiac function; h...

    Authors: Caroline Schneider, Lynsey Forsythe, John Somauroo, Keith George and David Oxborough
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2018 5:501009
    Content type: Research Published on:

  24. This review article will guide the reader through the basics of echocardiographic assessment of congenital left to right shunts in both paediatric and adult age groups. After reading this article, the reader w...

    Authors: Antigoni Deri and Kate English
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2018 5:501007
    Content type: Review Published on:

  25. A 63-year-old female presented to hospital with progressive exertional dyspnoea over a 6-month period. In the year preceding her admission, she reported an intercurrent history of abdominal pain, diarrhoea and...

    Authors: Daniel Hammersley, Aamir Shamsi, Mohammad Murtaza Zaman, Philip Berry and Lydia Sturridge
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2018 5:501006
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  26. Objective: Patients with non-ischaemic systolic heart failure (HF) and idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) are a heterogenous group with varied morbidity and mortality. Prognostication in this group is challe...

    Authors: Peter H. Waddingham, Sanjeev Bhattacharyya, Jet Van Zalen and Guy Lloyd
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2018 5:501005
    Content type: Research Published on:

  27. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  28. Our case highlights the finding of an abnormal pulmonary valve on 2D echocardiography, confirmed to be of bicuspid morphology with 3D imaging. The use of biplane imaging both in transthoracic and transoesophag...

    Authors: Ramasamy Manivarmane, Rebecca Taylor and Rajdeep Khattar
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2018 5:501003
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  30. Stress echocardiography is a widely utilised test in patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease (CAD), valvular heart disease and cardiomyopathies. Its advantages include the ubiquitous availabil...

    Authors: Benoy N. Shah, Anita MacNab, Jane Lynch, Reinette Hampson, Roxy Senior and Richard P. Steeds
    Citation: Echo Research & Practice 2018 5:501001
    Content type: Editorial Published on:

  31. 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:

  32. 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:

  33. 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:

  34. 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:

  35. 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:

  36. 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:

  37. 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:

  39. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  40. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  41. 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:

  42. 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:

  43. 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:

  44. 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:

  45. 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:

  46. 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:

  47. 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:

  50. 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:
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