Issue 1/2021
Content (40 Articles)
Left atrial functional assessment and mortality in patients with severe aortic stenosis with sinus rhythm
João Ferreira, Valdirene Gonçalves, Patrícia Marques-Alves, Rui Martins, Sílvia Monteiro, Rogério Teixeira, Lino Gonçalves
Preoperative false-negative transthoracic echocardiographic results in native valve infective endocarditis patients: a retrospective study from 2001 to 2018
Zuning Ren, Jian Zhang, Hongjie Chen, Xichao Mo, Shaohang Cai, Jie Peng
Safety and effects of volume loading during transesophageal echocardiography in the pre-procedural work-up for left atrial appendage closure
Afonso B. Freitas-Ferraz, Mathieu Bernier, Kim O’Connor, Jonathan Beaudoin, Jean Champagne, Jean-Michel Paradis, Gilles O’Hara, Guillem Muntané- Carol, Alberto Alperi, Laurent Faroux, Lucia Junquera, Josep Rodés-Cabau
Contribution of sarcomere gene mutations to left atrial function in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Hyemoon Chung, Yoonjung Kim, Chul Hwan Park, In-Soo Kim, Jong-Youn Kim, Pil-Ki Min, Young Won Yoon, Tae Hoon Kim, Byoung Kwon Lee, Bum-Kee Hong, Se-Joong Rim, Hyuck Moon Kwon, Kyung-A Lee, Eui-Young Choi
Prognostic effect of increased left ventricular wall thickness in severe aortic stenosis
Kyungil Park, Tae-Ho Park, Yoon-Seong Jo, Young-Rak Cho, Jong-Sung Park, Moo-Hyun Kim, Young-Dae Kim
Usefulness of speckle tracking echocardiography and biomarkers for detecting acute cellular rejection after heart transplantation
Cecilia Beatriz Bittencourt Viana Cruz, Ludhmila A. Hajjar, Fernando Bacal, Marco S. Lofrano-Alves, Márcio S. M. Lima, Maria C. Abduch, Marcelo L. C. Vieira, Hsu P. Chiang, Juliana B. C. Salviano, Isabela Bispo Santos da Silva Costa, Julia Tizue Fukushima, Joao C. N. Sbano, Wilson Mathias Jr, Jeane M. Tsutsui
Comparison of left atrial and left atrial appendage mechanics in the risk stratification of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation
Yankai Mao, Chan Yu, Yuan Yang, Mingming Ma, Yunhe Wang, Ruhong Jiang, Ran Chen, Bowen Zhao, Chenyang Jiang
Study on the views and methods of ultrasonic screening and diagnosis for abnormal aortic arch in infants
Xinjian He, Jiaoyang Chen, Gaoyang Li
A multicentric quality-control study of exercise Doppler echocardiography of the right heart and the pulmonary circulation. The RIGHT Heart International NETwork (RIGHT-NET)
Francesco Ferrara, Luna Gargani, Carla Contaldi, Gergely Agoston, Paola Argiento, William F. Armstrong, Francesco Bandera, Filippo Cademartiri, Rodolfo Citro, Antonio Cittadini, Rosangela Cocchia, Michele D’Alto, Antonello D’Andrea, Philipp Douschan, Stefano Ghio, Ekkehard Grünig, Marco Guazzi, Stefania Guida, Jaroslaw D. Kasprzak, Theodore John Kolias, Giuseppe Limongelli, Alberto Maria Marra, Matteo Mazzola, Ciro Mauro, Antonella Moreo, Francesco Pieri, Lorenza Pratali, Nicola Riccardo Pugliese, Mauro Raciti, Brigida Ranieri, Lawrence Rudski, Rajan Saggar, Andrea Salzano, Walter Serra, Anna Agnese Stanziola, Mani Vannan, Damien Voilliot, Olga Vriz, Karina Wierzbowska-Drabik, Robert Naeije, Eduardo Bossone
Aborted sudden cardiac death due to ventricular fibrillation in a female patient with mitral valve prolapse
Sofien Ayed, Rainer Hoffmann
Prenatal evaluation of fetal atrioventricular valves by real-time 4D volume imaging with electronic matrix probe
Huiyu Tang, Wei Sun, Xue Sun, Yu Wang, Yu Qi, Dong Wang, Ying Zhang
Correction to: Usefulness of speckle tracking echocardiography and biomarkers for detecting acute cellular rejection after heart transplantation
Cecilia Beatriz Bittencourt Viana Cruz, Ludhmila A. Hajjar, Fernando Bacal, Marco S. Lofrano-Alves, Márcio S. M. Lima, Maria C. Abduch, Marcelo Luiz Campos Vieira, Hsu P. Chiang, Juliana B. C. Salviano, Isabela Bispo Santos da Silva Costa, Julia Tizue Fukushima, Joao C. N. Sbano, Wilson Mathias Jr, Jeane M. Tsutsui
Evaluation of right myocardial performance index of in vitro fertilization fetuses and spontaneous pregnancy fetuses: a cross-sectional study
Shaoqi Chen, Zemin Zhuang, Qingzi Chen, Xiya Du, Weiping Li, Xuerui Tan
Pre- and postoperative left atrial and ventricular volumetric and deformation analyses in severe aortic regurgitation
Jonas Jenner, Ali Ilami, Johan Petrini, Per Eriksson, Anders Franco-Cereceda, Maria J. Eriksson, Kenneth Caidahl
Layer‐specific strain echocardiography may reflect regional myocardial impairment in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Zhongxiu Chen, Chunmei Li, Yajiao Li, Li Rao, Xiaoling Zhang, Dan Long, Chen Li
Impact of concomitant tricuspid annuloplasty on right ventricular remodeling in patients with rheumatic mitral valve disease
Yue Zhong, Wenjuan Bai, Hui Wang, Hong Qian, Li Rao
Mitral early-diastolic inflow peak velocity (E)-to-left atrial strain ratio as a novel index for predicting elevated left ventricular filling pressures in patients with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction
You Zhou, Cai-Ming Zhao, Zhen-Ya Shen, Xin Zhao, Bing-Yuan Zhou
Evaluation of fetal foramen ovale blood flow by pulsed Doppler ultrasonography combined with spatiotemporal image correlation
Wenjuan Tang, Yuanchen Luo, Shi Zeng, Jiawei Zhou, Ganqiong Xu, Jianwen Yang
Feasibility of focused cardiac ultrasound during cardiac arrest in the emergency department
Jessica R. Balderston, Alan X. You, David P. Evans, Lindsay A. Taylor, Zachary M. Gertz
Characteristics and prognosis of patients with cryptogenic stroke and suggestive of patent foramen ovale
Jaehuk Choi, Min-Kyung Kang, Jin-Sun Jun, Dong Geum Shin, Donghoon Han, Seonghoon Choi, Jung Rae Cho, Namho Lee
Left ventricular global longitudinal strain predicts elevated cardiac pressures and poor clinical outcomes in patients with non-ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy
Ieva Kažukauskienė, Giedrė Balčiūnaitė, Vaida Baltrūnienė, Jelena Čelutkienė, Vytė Valerija Maneikienė, Sigitas Čibiras, Kęstutis Ručinskas, Virginija Grabauskienė
Post Procedural Peak Left Atrial Contraction Strain Predicts Recurrence of Arrhythmia after Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation
Songnan Wen, Manasawee Indrabhinduwat, Peter A. Brady, Cristina Pislaru, Fletcher A. Miller, Naser M. Ammash, Vuyisile T. Nkomo, Ratnasari Padang, Sorin V. Pislaru, Grace Lin
The impact of native Fallot anatomy on future therapeutic requirements and outcomes at follow-up
Antonio Ravaglioli, Lamia Ait-Ali, Duccio Federici, Stefano Salvadori, Arketa Pllumi, Vitali Pak, Chiara Marrone, Alessandra Pizzuto, Philipp Bonhoeffer, Pierluigi Festa
Afterload-related reference values for myocardial work indices
Qiancheng Li, Hui Wang, Haiyan Feng, Tingfan Wu, Ying Yang, Dongmei Gao, Lina Sun
Evaluation of prenatal changes in fetal cardiac morphology and function in maternal diabetes mellitus using a novel fetal speckle-tracking analysis: a prospective cohort study
Dong Wang, Caixia Liu, Xinyu Liu, Ying Zhang, Yu Wang
Ultrasonography to detect cardiovascular damage in children with essential hypertension
Wei Liu, Cui Hou, Miao Hou, Qiu-Qin Xu, Hui Wang, Pei-Pei Gu, Ling Sun, Hai-Tao Lv, Yue-Yue Ding
The feasibility, reliability, and incremental value of two-dimensional speckle-tracking for the detection of significant coronary stenosis after treadmill stress echocardiography
Marc-André d’Entremont, Gabriel Fortin, Thao Huynh, Étienne Croteau, Paul Farand, Samuel Lemaire-Paquette, Marie-Claude Brochu, Doan Hoa Do, Serge Lepage, Warner Mbuila Mampuya, Étienne L. Couture, Michel Nguyen, Btissama Essadiqi
Global and regional right ventricular mechanics in repaired tetralogy of Fallot with chronic severe pulmonary regurgitation: a three-dimensional echocardiography study
Jurate Bidviene, Denisa Muraru, Attila Kovacs, Bálint Lakatos, Egle Ereminiene, Csilla Liptai, Jolanta-Justina Vaskelyte, Remigijus Zaliunas, Elena Surkova, Luigi P. Badano
Artificial intelligence in echocardiography: detection, functional evaluation, and disease diagnosis
Jia Zhou, Meng Du, Shuai Chang, Zhiyi Chen
Cardiac amyloidosis screening using a relative apical sparing pattern in patients with left ventricular hypertrophy
Yasuhisa Nakao, Makoto Saito, Katsuji Inoue, Rieko Higaki, Yuki Yokomoto, Akiyoshi Ogimoto, Moeko Suzuki, Hideo Kawakami, Go Hiasa, Hideki Okayama, Shuntaro Ikeda, Osamu Yamaguchi
Emergency cardiac imaging for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in practice: a case of takotsubo stress cardiomyopathy
Oriana Belli, Maddalena Ardissino, Maurizio Bottiroli, Francesco Soriano, Calogero Blanda, Jacopo Oreglia, Michele Mondino, Antonella Moreo
Echocardiographic assessment of diastolic dysfunction in elderly patients with severe aortic stenosis before and after aortic valve replacement
Hatice Akay Caglayan, Didrik Kjønås, Siri Malm, Henrik Schirmer, Assami Rösner
The role of left atrial strain in patients with functional tricuspid regurgitation before and after annuloplasty: a long-term follow-up study
Qing-long Meng, Hong Meng, Jia Tao, Shu Yang, Hao Wang
In-hospital COVID-19 infection echocardiographic analysis: a Brazilian, tertiary single-centre experience
Marcelo Luiz Campos Vieira, Tania Regina Afonso, Alessandra Joslin Oliveira, Carolina Stangenhaus, Juliana Cardoso Dória Dantas, Lucas Arraes de França, Edgar Daminelo, Adriana Cordovil, Lara A. S. Martins, Rodrigo A. C. Meirelles, Rafael B. Piveta, Sérgio Barros-Gomes, Miguel O. D. Aguiar, Patrícia O. Roveri, Wércules A. Oliveira, Alessandro C. Lianza, Andrea P. L. Ponchirolli, Líria M. L. Silva, Rodrigo C. P. L. Costa, Cláudio H. Fischer, Samira Saady Morhy
2D-echocardiography vs cardiac MRI strain: a prospective cohort study in patients with HER2-positive breast cancer undergoing trastuzumab
Nathalie I. Bouwer, Crista Liesting, Marcel J. M. Kofflard, Jasper J. Brugts, Marc C. J. Kock, Jos J. E. M. Kitzen, Mark-David Levin, Eric Boersma
Moderately trained male football players, compared to sedentary male adults, exhibit anatomical but not functional cardiac remodelling, a cross-sectional study
Jan E. Engvall, Meriam Åström Aneq, Eva Nylander, Lars Brudin, Eva Maret
Predictors of worsening TR severity after right ventricular lead placement: any added value by post-procedural fluoroscopy versus three –dimensional echocardiography?
Hoorak Poorzand, Mohammad Tayyebi, Sara Hosseini, Alireza Heidari Bakavoli, Faeze Keihanian, Lida Jarahi, Ali Hamadanchi
Evaluation of intraventricular flow by multimodality imaging: a review and meta-analysis
Ferit Onur Mutluer, Nikki van der Velde, Jason Voorneveld, Johan G. Bosch, Jolien W. Roos-Hesselink, Rob J. van der Geest, Alexander Hirsch, Annemien van den Bosch
The effectiveness of a blended POCUS curriculum on achieving basic focused bedside transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) proficiency. A formalized pilot study
Jonathan Kline, Mary Golinski, Brian Selai, Jeremy Horsch, Katie Hornbaker
Myocardial strain measured via two-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography in a family diagnosed with arrhythmogenic left ventricular cardiomyopathy
Changsheng Ma, Jiali Fan, Bingyuan Zhou, Caiming Zhao, Xin Zhao, Bo Su, Yuzhu Miao, Yuping Liao, Li Wang