Ausgabe 1/2015
Inhalt (49 Artikel)
Echogenic perfluorohexane-loaded macrophages adhere in vivo to activated vascular endothelium in mice, an explorative study
Liselotte M Kornmann, Alma Zernecke, Daniëlle MJ Curfs, Ben JA Janssen, Christian Weber, Menno PJ de Winther, Robert S Reneman, Arnold PG Hoeks, Koen D Reesink
Does treatment assignment influence the prognosis of patients with symptomatic severe aortic stenosis?
Giovanni Cioffi, Cesare Tomasi, Andrea Rossi, Stefano Nistri, Luigi Tarantini, Giacomo Faden, Carmine Mazzone, Andrea Di Lenarda, Federica Ettori, Carlo Stefenelli, Pompilio Faggiano
A novel software program for detection of potential air emboli during cardiac surgery
Frank Secretain, Andrew Pollard, Mesbah Uddin, Christopher G Ball, Andrew Hamilton, Robert C Tanzola, Joelle B Thorpe, Brian Milne
Comparison of left ventricular mechanics in runners versus bodybuilders using speckle tracking echocardiography
Ipoly Szauder, Attila Kovács, Gábor Pavlik
Myocardial function in aortic stenosis – insights from radial multilayer Doppler strain
Dana Cramariuc, Eva Gerdts, Johannes Just Hjertaas, Alexandru Cramariuc, Einar Skulstad Davidsen, Knut Matre
The utility of pocket-sized echocardiography to assess left ventricular systolic function prior to permanent pacemaker implantation
Lawrence Lau, Robin Ducas, Jacques Rizkallah, Davinder S Jassal, Colette M Seifer
The use of strain, strain rate, and displacement by 2D speckle tracking for assessment of systolic left ventricular function in goats: applicability and influence of general anesthesia
Ann-Sabin J Berli, Rahel Jud Schefer, Kathrin Steininger, Colin C Schwarzwald
Ultrasound entropy may be a new non-invasive measure of pre-clinical vascular damage in young hypertensive patients
Caroline Bleakley, Aaron McCann, Vivienne McClenaghan, Paul Kevin Hamilton, Auleen Millar, Richard Pumb, Mark Harbinson, Gary Eugene McVeigh
Cardiac and renal function in a large cohort of amateur marathon runners
Bernd Hewing, Sebastian Schattke, Sebastian Spethmann, Wasiem Sanad, Sabrina Schroeckh, Ingolf Schimke, Fabian Halleck, Harm Peters, Lars Brechtel, Jürgen Lock, Gert Baumann, Henryk Dreger, Adrian C Borges, Fabian Knebel
Prediction of left ventricular reverse remodeling after therapy with angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors or angiotensin II receptor blockers and β blockers in patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy
Yoshihisa Matsumura, Eri Hoshikawa-Nagai, Toru Kubo, Naohito Yamasaki, Hiroaki Kitaoka, Jun Takata, Yoshinori Doi, Tetsuro Sugiura
Feasibility and accuracy of bedside transthoracic echocardiography in diagnosis of acute proximal aortic dissection
Dorota Sobczyk, Krzysztof Nycz
Validity of a 5-minute focused echocardiography with A-F mnemonic performed by non-echocardiographers in the management of patients with acute chest pain
Dorota Sobczyk, Krzysztof Nycz, Pawel Andruszkiewicz
Anti-inflammatory and morphologic effects of pitavastatin on carotid arteries and thoracic aorta evaluated by integrated backscatter trans-esophageal ultrasound and PET/CT: a prospective randomized comparative study with pravastatin (EPICENTRE study)
Takatomo Watanabe, Masanori Kawasaki, Ryuhei Tanaka, Koji Ono, Nobuo Kako, Maki Saeki, Noriyuki Onishi, Maki Nagaya, Noriaki Sato, Hirotaka Miwa, Masazumi Arai, Toshiyuki Noda, Sachiro Watanabe, Shinya Minatoguchi
The role of renin angiotensin system antagonists in the prevention of doxorubicin and trastuzumab induced cardiotoxicity
Gauri Akolkar, Navdeep Bhullar, Hilary Bews, Bilal Shaikh, Sheena Premecz, Kimberly-Ann Bordun, David YC Cheung, Vineet Goyal, Anita K Sharma, Philip Garber, Pawan K Singal, Davinder S Jassal
Variability in echocardiographic measurements of left ventricular function in septic shock patients
Lina De Geer, Anna Oscarsson, Jan Engvall
Left carotid adventitial vasa vasorum signal correlates directly with age and with left carotid intima-media thickness in individuals without atheromatous risk factors
Maria Vittoria Arcidiacono, Esther Rubinat, Mercè Borras, Angels Betriu, Javier Trujillano, Teresa Vidal, Didac Mauricio, Elvira Fernández
Dual imaging stress echocardiography versus computed tomography coronary angiography for risk stratification of patients with chest pain of unknown origin
Quirino Ciampi, Fausto Rigo, Elisabetta Grolla, Eugenio Picano, Lauro Cortigiani
The left ventricle in aortic stenosis – imaging assessment and clinical implications
Andreea Călin, Monica Roşca, Carmen Cristiana Beladan, Roxana Enache, Anca Doina Mateescu, Carmen Ginghină, Bogdan Alexandru Popescu
Evaluation of cardiac masses by real-time perfusion imaging echocardiography
Eliza K Uenishi, Márcia A Caldas, Jeane M Tsutsui, Maria C D Abduch, João C N Sbano, Roberto Kalil Filho, Wilson Mathias Jr
Severity of aortic regurgitation assessed by area of vena contracta: a clinical two-dimensional and three-dimensional color Doppler imaging study
Hirotomo Sato, Tetsuro Ohta, Kimiko Hiroe, Seiji Okada, Koji Shimizu, Rinji Murakami, Kazuaki Tanabe
Mitral valve analysis adding a virtual semi-transparent annulus plane for detection of prolapsing segments
Karl-Andreas Dumont, Jørn Skaarud Karlsen, Thomas Helle-Valle, Arnt Eltvedt Fiane, Runar Lundblad, Stig Urheim
The effects of nicorandil on microvascular function in patients with ST segment elevation myocardial infarction undergoing primary PCI
Jelena Kostic, Ana Djordjevic-Dikic, Milan Dobric, Dejan Milasinovic, Milan Nedeljkovic, Sinisa Stojkovic, Jelena Stepanovic, Milorad Tesic, Zoran Trifunovic, Danijela Zamaklar-Tifunovic, Mina Radosavljevic-Radovanovic, Miodrag Ostojic, Branko Beleslin
Echocardiographic characteristics of patients with acute heart failure requiring tolvaptan: a retrospective study
Yasuki Nakada, Satoshi Okayama, Tomoya Nakano, Tomoya Ueda, Kenji Onoue, Yukiji Takeda, Rika Kawakami, Manabu Horii, Shiro Uemura, Shinichi Fujimoto, Yoshihiko Saito
Grading diastolic function by echocardiography: hemodynamic validation of existing guidelines
Andrew D. M. Grant, Kazuaki Negishi, Tomoko Negishi, Patrick Collier, Samir R. Kapadia, James D. Thomas, Thomas H. Marwick, Brian P. Griffin, Zoran B. Popović
Relation between E/e’ ratio and NT-proBNP levels in elderly patients with symptomatic severe aortic stenosis
Mihai Strachinaru, Bas M. van Dalen, Nicolas Van Mieghem, Peter P. T. De Jaegere, Tjebbe W. Galema, Marielle Morissens, Marcel L. Geleijnse
Strain echocardiography identifies impaired longitudinal systolic function in patients with septic shock and preserved ejection fraction
Keti Dalla, Caroline Hallman, Odd Bech-Hanssen, Michael Haney, Sven-Erik Ricksten
New diastolic cardiomyopathy in patients with severe accidental hypothermia after ECMO rewarming: a case-series observational study
Tomasz Darocha, Dorota Sobczyk, Sylweriusz Kosiński, Anna Jarosz, Robert Gałązkowski, Krzysztof Nycz, Rafał Drwiła
A case report of ventricular dysfunction post pericardiocentesis: stress cardiomyopathy or pericardial decompression syndrome?
Chadi Ayoub, Michael Chang, Leonard Kritharides
Early markers of right heart involvement in regular smokers by Pocket Size Imaging Device
Vincenzo Schiano-Lomoriello, Roberta Esposito, Ciro Santoro, Giovanni de Simone, Maurizio Galderisi
Comparison of carotid plaque tissue characteristics in patients with acute coronary syndrome or stable angina pectoris: assessment by iPlaque, transcutaneous carotid ultrasonography with integrated backscatter analysis
Mika Bando, Hirotsugu Yamada, Kenya Kusunose, Daiju Fukuda, Rie Amano, Rina Tamai, Yuta Torii, Yukina Hirata, Susumu Nishio, Koji Yamaguchi, Takeshi Soeki, Tetsuzo Wakatsuki, Masataka Sata
Assessment of dipyridamole stress echocardiography for risk stratification of diabetic patients
Liz Andréa Villela Baroncini, Rafael Borsoi, Maria Eugênia Bégué Vidal, Nathália Julim Valente, Juliana Veloso, Roberto Pecoits Filho
The prognostic value of dobutamine stress echocardiography amongst British Indian Asian and Afro-Caribbean patients: a comparison with European white patients
Jamie M. O’Driscoll, Claire Rossato, Paula Gargallo-Fernandez, Marco Araco, Dimitrios Giannoglou, Sanjay Sharma, Rajan Sharma
Normal ranges of left ventricular strain in children: a meta-analysis
Haki Jashari, Annika Rydberg, Pranvera Ibrahimi, Gani Bajraktari, Lindita Kryeziu, Fisnik Jashari, Michael Y. Henein
Automated quantification of left atrial size using three-beat averaging real-time three dimensional Echocardiography in patients with atrial fibrillation
Ran Heo, Geu-Ru Hong, Young-Jin Kim, Joel Mancina, In-Jeong Cho, Chi Young Shim, Hyuk-Jae Chang, Jong-Won Ha, Namsik Chung
Automated analysis of color tissue Doppler velocity recordings of the fetal myocardium using a new algorithm
Lotta Herling, Jonas Johnson, Kjerstin Ferm-Widlund, Peter Lindgren, Ganesh Acharya, Magnus Westgren
Persistent pulmonary congestion before discharge predicts rehospitalization in heart failure: a lung ultrasound study
Luna Gargani, P. S. Pang, F. Frassi, M.H. Miglioranza, F. L. Dini, P. Landi, E. Picano
Prognostic value of calcium score and coronary flow velocity reserve in asymptomatic diabetic patients
Miodrag Dikic, Milorad Tesic, Zeljko Markovic, Vojislav Giga, Ana Djordjevic-Dikic, Jelena Stepanovic, Branko Beleslin, Ivana Jovanovic, Ana Mladenovic, Jelena Seferovic, Miodrag Ostojic, Aleksandra Arandjelovic
Brachial artery endothelial function is stable across the morning in young men
Saurabh S. Thosar, Chad C. Wiggins, Steven A. Shea, Janet P. Wallace
Two-dimensional speckle tracking for the assessment of coronary artery disease during dobutamine stress echo: clinical tool or merely research method
Constantina Aggeli, Stauroula Lagoudakou, Ioannis Felekos, Vasiliki Panagopoulou, Stellios Kastellanos, Konstantinos Toutouzas, George Roussakis, Dimitris Tousoulis
Assessment of inpatient multimodal cardiac imaging appropriateness at large academic medical centers
Andrew Remfry, Howard Abrams, David M. Dudzinski, Rory B. Weiner, R. Sacha Bhatia
Reliability of focused cardiac ultrasound by novice sonographer in preoperative anaesthetic assessment: an observational study
Pawel Andruszkiewicz, Dorota Sobczyk, Izabela Gorkiewicz-Kot, Ilona Kowalik, Remigiusz Gelo, Orest Stach
Causes of changes in carotid intima-media thickness: a literature review
Baoge Qu, Tao Qu
The value of core lab stress echocardiography interpretations: observations from the ISCHEMIA Trial
Akihisa Kataoka, Marielle Scherrer-Crosbie, Roxy Senior, Gilbert Gosselin, Denis Phaneuf, Gabriela Guzman, Gian Perna, Alfonso Lara, Sasko Kedev, Andrea Mortara, Mohammad El-Hajjar, Leslee J. Shaw, Harmony R. Reynolds, Michael H. Picard
Shigeo Satomura: 60 years of Doppler ultrasound in medicine
Ioan M. Coman, Bogdan A. Popescu
The beneficial effects of TAVI in mitral insufficiency
Marco Fabio Costantino, Ernesta Dores, Pasquale Innelli, Antonella Matera, Vincenza Santillo, Roberto Violini, Rosario Fiorilli, GianGiuseppe Cappabianca, Nicola Marraudino, Eugenio Picano, Giandomenico Tarsia
Limitations of free-form-text diagnostic requisitions as a tool for evaluating adherence to appropriate use criteria for transthoracic echocardiography
Behnam Banihashemi, Kasra Maftoon, Benjamin J W Chow, Jordan Bernick, George A Wells, Ian G Burwash
Measurements of carotid intima media thickness in non-invasive high-frequency ultrasound images: the effect of dynamic range setting
Mario Gaarder, Therese Seierstad
Structural and functional changes in maternal left ventricle during pregnancy: a three-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography study
Juan Cong, Tingpan Fan, Xiaoqian Yang, Jared Wynn Squires, Guomei Cheng, Linlin Zhang, Zhan Zhang