Ausgabe 1/2008
Inhalt (65 Artikel)
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, Paolo Alboni
Usefulness and limitations of transthoracic echocardiography in heart transplantation recipients
Sergio Mondillo, Massimo Maccherini, Maurizio Galderisi
Exercise-induced intra-ventricular gradients as a frequent potential cause of myocardial ischemia in cardiac syndrome X patients
Carlos Cotrim, Ana G Almeida, Manuel Carrageta
Interventricular septum hematoma during cineventriculography
Andrea Grohmann, Thomas Elgeti, Stephan Eddicks, Fabian Knebel, Wolfgang Rutsch, Christoph Melzer, Gert Baumann, Adrian C Borges
Acute severe mitral regurgitation: consideration of papillary muscle architecture
Andrew Czarnecki, Amar Thakrar, Tielan Fang, Matthew Lytwyn, Roien Ahmadie, Edward Pascoe, Davinder S Jassal
Ultrasound settings significantly alter arterial lumen and wall thickness measurements
Kathleen Potter, Christopher J Reed, Daniel J Green, Graeme J Hankey, Leonard F Arnolda
Transthoracic echocardiographic imaging of coronary arteries: tips, traps, and pitfalls
Fausto Rigo, Bruno Murer, Giovanni Ossena, Enrico Favaretto
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, F Del Furia
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, Sergio Mondillo
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, David J Couper
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, Davinder S Jassal
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, Jan Ohlsson
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, Lars-Åke Brodin
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, Giorgio Galanti
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, Eugenio Picano
Chest sonography: a useful tool to differentiate acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema from acute respiratory distress syndrome
Roberto Copetti, Gino Soldati, Paolo Copetti
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, Ming Zhao
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, Masato Nakamura
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, Manuel Carrageta
Prognostic implications of negative dobutamine stress echocardiography in African Americans compared to Caucasians
Ajay V Srivastava, Karthik Ananthasubramaniam, Salil J Patel, Natesh Lingam, Gordon Jacobsen
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, Cosimo Loré
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, Frits W Prinzen
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, Reza Javad Rashid
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, Adrian P Banning
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, Juha W Koskenvuo
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, Lars-Åke Brodin
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, Valeria Manicardi
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, Adrian C Borges
Hyperthyroidism as a reversible cause of right ventricular overload and congestive heart failure
Raniero Di Giovambattista
The diagnostic accuracy of pharmacological stress echocardiography for the assessment of coronary artery disease: a meta-analysis
Eugenio Picano, Sabrina Molinaro, Emilio Pasanisi
Head to head comparison of 2D vs real time 3D dipyridamole stress echocardiography
Silvia Varnero, Patricia Santagata, Lorenza Pratali, Massimiliano Basso, Alfredo Gandolfo, Paolo Bellotti
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, A Schmidt-Trucksaess
Understanding atrioventricular septal defect: Anatomoechocardiographic correlation
Nilda Espinola-Zavaleta, Luís Muñoz-Castellanos, Magdalena Kuri-Nivón, Candace Keirns
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, Michael E Gaunt
Atrial natriuretic peptide and three-dimensional echocardiography after transcatheter closure of atrial septal defect
Jingdong Ding, Genshan Ma, Yaoyao Huang, Xiaoli Zhang, Biao Liu, Fengxiang Lu
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, Thomas H Marwick
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, Sharon L Mulvagh
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, Marco-Antonio Martínez-Ríos
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, Vicente Bertomeu
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, Parameswaran Hari
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, Eugenio Picano
Reproducibility of 3-dimensional ultrasound readings of volume of carotid atherosclerotic plaque
Malte Ludwig, Tomasz Zielinski, Dieter Schremmer, Klaus O Stumpe
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, Harrihar A Pershadsingh
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, Janet P Wallace
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, Adrian C Borges
Echocardiographic manifestation of hiatus hernia simulating a left atrial mass: Case report
Konstantinos C Koskinas, Kostas Oikonomou, Eleni Karapatsoudi, Pantelis Makridis
Correlation between Progetto Cuore risk score and early cardiovascular damage in never treated subjects
Aldo Pende, Caterina Grondona, Stefano Bertolini
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, Massimo Volpe
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
Persistent left superior vena cava: a case report and review of literature
Sandeep K Goyal, Sujeeth R Punnam, Gita Verma, Frederick L Ruberg
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, Manuel Carrageta
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, Dalton Bertolim Précoma
Duplex scan in patients with clinical suspicion of deep venous thrombosis
Aguinaldo de Oliveira, Graciliano J França, Enrique A Vidal, Paulo SDB Stalke, Liz AV Baroncini
Tissue Doppler and strain imaging: anything left in the echo-lab?
Rodolfo Citro, Eduardo Bossone, Bettina Kuersten, Giovanni Gregorio, Alessandro Salustri
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, Jan E Engvall
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, Marco R Torres
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, Donald A Conetta
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, Adrian C Borges
Primary lung tumour visualised by transthoracic echocardiography
Magnus Dencker, Carin Cronberg, Sabine Damm, Sven Valind, Monica Wadbo
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, Akira Kurita
Clinical utility of genetic tests for inherited hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathies
Maria Giovanna Colombo, Nicoletta Botto, Simona Vittorini, Umberto Paradossi, Maria Grazia Andreassi
A combination of right ventricular hypertrabeculation/noncompaction and arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy: a syndrome?
Ze-Zhou Song
Impact of contractile reserve on acute response to cardiac resynchronization therapy
Marie Moonen, Mario Senechal, Bernard Cosyns, Pierre Melon, Eric Nellessen, Luc Pierard, Patrizio Lancellotti