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TL;DR: Coronary angiography is the gold standard for imaging the coronary tree, but the relation of coronary artery fistulas to other structures, and their origin and course, may not be apparent.

TL;DR: The TDI assessment of aortic wall mechanics is complementary to standard M-mode measurements in discriminating normal subjects from patients with Marfan's syndrome and is accurate in predicting aorti dilation and dissection.

TL;DR: In chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients, strain rate imaging parameters can determine right ventricular dysfunction that is complementary to conventional echocardiographic indices and is correlated with pulmonary hypertension and respiratory function tests.

TL;DR: Myocardial velocities recorded after the Fontan operation give insight into systolic and diastolic ventricular functions as well as the ratio between the early and late diastsolic mitral annular velocity are reduced and reflect diastolics dysfunction even in the presence of normal syStolic ejection fraction.

TL;DR: 2DSTE and 3DSTE show LV longitudinal strain and GAS changes in dyslipidemic children and adolescents free from other cardiovascular risk factors or structural cardiac abnormalities, and obesity causes an additive adverse effect on LV strain parameters and RV strain impairment.