Recurrent Thrombus Formation in Left Ventricle with Preserved Systolic Function

systolic longitudinal function of the left ventricle assessed by speckle tracking in heart failure patients with preserved ejection fraction

background: echocardiographic evaluations of the longitudinal axis of the left ventricular (lv) function have been used in the diagnosis and assessment of heart failure with normal ejection fraction (hfnef). the evaluation of the global and segmental peak systolic longitudinal strains (pslss) by two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography (ste) may correlate with conventional echocardiogr...

Preserved Left Ventricular, Systolic Function in Clinical Congestive Heart Failure

Systolic Longitudinal Function of the Left Ventricle Assessed by Speckle Tracking in Heart Failure Patients with Preserved Ejection Fraction

BACKGROUND Echocardiographic evaluations of the longitudinal axis of the left ventricular (LV) function have been used in the diagnosis and assessment of heart failure with normal ejection fraction (HFNEF). The evaluation of the global and segmental peak systolic longitudinal strains (PSLSs) by two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography (STE) may correlate with conventional echocardiogra...

LEFT VENTRICULAR DIASTOLIC ABNORMALITIES IN β-THALASSEMIA MAJOR WITH NORMAL SYSTOLIC FUNCTION

In order to identify left ventricular diastolic function in patients with betathalassemia major and normal systolic function by noninvasive M-mode and Doppler echocardiography, an analytic study was designed in a university hospital in Sari. We have studied 44 patients (23 men and 21 women), mean age 15.48±2.16 (range 12 to 20) and 43 age and sex matched control subjects. Peak flow velocit...

Evaluation of Systolic Function of the Left Ventricle

2 Introduction The assessment of left ventricular function is one of the most clinically important and frequently requested tasks in echocardiography. We are witnessing a progressive development in echocardiographic methods and techniques including the use of higher frequency transducers, tissue Doppler, harmonic imaging and trans-pulmonary or left sided contrast agents.