Showing papers in "Journal of Cardiovascular Echography in 2016"

TL;DR: The physical principles underlying TCD, flow indices most frequently used in clinical practice and critical care applications in Neurocritical Unit care are described.

TL;DR: The importance of identifying this subset of preeclamptic patients with echo changes who are at higher risk of developing cardiovascular complications later in life by undergoing echocardiography is emphasized.

TL;DR: The incremental diagnostic role in cryptogenic stroke for TCD is described, which allows to classify the grade of severity of such shunts using the so-called "Microembolic Signals grading score."

TL;DR: Some unique variations of azygos system of veins observed during dissection classes for undergraduate medical students are reported.

TL;DR: The combined evaluation of miRNA-21, a marker of MF, and hypertrophy, together with advanced echocardiographic imaging (two-dimensional speckle tracking), could fulfill many existing gaps, renewing older guidelines paradigms, also allowing a better risk prognostic and diagnostic strategies.

TL;DR: The present study found that the mean CAIMT of all carotid arteries in HTN was more than that of the controls, suggesting that the duration of the HTN can accelerate the atherosclerosis process in hypertensive patients.

TL;DR: Behçet's disease is a chronic multisystem disease that presents with recurrent oral and genital ulceration and recurrent uveitis and is associated with the poor prognosis.

TL;DR: Patients with dilated cardiomyopathy had lower Vitamin D levels than controls, and Vitamin D deficiency had a significant correlation with cardiac function, so screening foritamin D deficiency along with prompt treatment is recommended in patients with DCMP.

TL;DR: High BP, increased waist circumference, dyslipidemia, and hyperglycemia separately and additively contributes to LVH suggesting that optimal BP control along with weight loss, lipid lowering agents, and euglycemic state may contribute to regression of LVH and LVM.

TL;DR: The capability of dabigatran and not of warfarin in reducing the intense spontaneous echocontrast in atrial appendage and the ability of 3D TEE in analyzing accurately the appendage, excluding thrombi to safely perform cardioversion are demonstrated.

TL;DR: A 13-year-old male who presented to us with an isolated DCRV successfully underwent a resection of the RV cavity anomalous muscle bundles, and stress on the utility of transesophageal echocardiography intraoperatively which accurately delineates the location of the muscle bundles and helps in evaluating the adequacy of resection postsurgery.

TL;DR: A rare case of familial RCM with pregnancy which was successfully managed and characterized by impaired filling of the ventricles in the presence of normal wall thickness and systolic function is presented.

TL;DR: The case of a 39-year-old asymptomatic, healthy man with no previous medical history who was affected by isolated complete bridge type DOMV, incidentally detected by two-dimensional echocardiographic examination in the parasternal short-axis view.

TL;DR: A case of an incidental finding of diverticulum in a patient presented to the Emergency Department for atypical chest pain is described and the challenging differential diagnosis with aneurysm, pseudoaneurysms, and ventricular cleft is analyzed.

TL;DR: The gastric branch of the IPA, which has not been reported yet, is the most important among the variations reported here, which is of tremendous surgical application.

TL;DR: In patients with ischemic heart disease and impaired LV systolic function, LA wall contractility is reduced, however, LAASVI and LAAEF are enhanced.

TL;DR: Knowledge of numerical and positional variations of hepatic veins could be useful in normal Doppler ultrasound hepatic vein flow velocities and their variation with respiration in healthy adults as comparable with the similar approach of superior vena cava.

TL;DR: A 67-year-old patient, without previous cardiovascular events, with a new onset of atrial fibrillation is presented, who developed dyspnea and fatigue and a large interatrial defect localized in the basal portion of the septum, associated with anterior mitral valve cleft and moderate regurgitation is presented.

TL;DR: The occurrence, during DSE, of worsening ischemic abnormalities after atropine and aminophylline administration may be a particular diagnostic feature of MB.

TL;DR: The usage of transesophageal echocardiography as a valuable intraoperative tool which not only confirms the preoperative diagnosis but also helps in assessing the surgical repair of an APW is emphasized.

TL;DR: A 39-year-old man with delayed presentation of severe pulmonary valve stenosis, clinical evidence of congestive right heart failure in the form of enlarged liver, raised jugular venous pressure, and anasarca without cyanosis is illustrated.

TL;DR: A rare case of a 74-year-old man with essential thrombocythemia who presented an early nonobstructiveThrombosis of aortic porcine bioprosthesis complicated by multiple ischemic strokes 14 days after the primary operation.

TL;DR: A 7-year-old female child presented with pyrexia of unknown origin and ongoing fever more than 2 weeks, oscillating vegetation in the echo and histopathological evidence of healing vegetation suggested definite diagnosis of infective endocarditis.

TL;DR: Male patients with dilated cardiomyopathy at sinus rhythm with lower body weight tend to have larger LA and consequently might be at higher risk of developing atrial thrombus and its subsequent consequences.