A 71-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with new onset of typical symptoms of angina on exertion corresponding to a Canadian Cardiovascular Society functional class III. The patient had undergone mitral valve replacement with a mechanical bileaflet valve (ATS medical prosthesis, ATS Medical Inc., Minneapolis, Minn.) in December 1997 and transvenous pacemaker implantation for intermittent...

A 71-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with new onset of typical symptoms of angina on exertion corresponding to a Canadian Cardiovascular Society functional class III. The patient had undergone mitral valve replacement with a mechanical bileaflet valve (ATS medical prosthesis, ATS Medical Inc., Minneapolis, Minn.) in December 1997 and transvenous pacemaker implantation for intermittent...

BACKGROUND Tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) detects left ventricular dysfunction in patients with heart failure and normal ejection fraction, but the prognostic significance of left ventricular dysfunction by TDI in the general population is unknown. METHODS AND RESULTS Within the Copenhagen City Heart Study, a large community-based population study, cardiac function was evaluated in 1036 partici...

BACKGROUND The diabetic heart exhibits increased left ventricular (LV) mass and reduced ventricular function. However, this relationship has not been studied in patients with aortic stenosis (AS), a disease process that causes LV hypertrophy and dysfunction through a distinct mechanism of pressure overload. The aim of this study was to determine how diabetes mellitus (DM) affects LV remodeling ...

conclusions despite the widespread use of 2d lvef and its good agreement with ventriculography, strain analysis seems to be more reliable as a quantitative tool for ventricular assessment. results the lvef values obtained by the two methods of ventriculography and echocardiography were not significantly different. the highest correlation regarding the echocardiographic lvef was obtained in the ...

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...

There are many studies documenting that diabetes mellitus is associated with cardiovascular diseases. Diabetes mellitus has a significant role and is an important risk factor in cardiovascular manifestations in patients with diabetes mellitus. Cardiovascular diseases are one of the main causes of morbidity and mortality in diabetic patients. Diabetes mellitus can affect performance, constructio...