background: cardiac dysfunction due to chronic anemia and hemosiderosis are the major causes of death among patients with thalassemia intermedia. this study was performed to compare the cardiac function in thalassemia intermedia patients with normal subjects by means of echocardiography. materials and methods: this was a case-control study performed on 22 patients affected by thalassemia interm...

UNLABELLED In 38 consecutive patients the pulmonary autograft was used in aortic root replacement. Investigations were performed with transthoracic echocardiography, transoesophageal echocardiography and magnetic resonance imaging in 31, 27 and 27 patients respectively. The mean age at operation was 28.7 years (range 19.0-52.0) and the follow-up period was 2.8 years (range 0.8-6.7). The pulmona...

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Echocardiography remains the most frequently performed cardiac imaging investigation and is an invaluable tool for detailed and accurate evaluation of cardiac structure and function. Echocardiography, nuclear cardiology, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, and cardiovascular-computed tomography comprise the subspeciality of cardiovascular imaging, and these techniques are often used together fo...

conclusions in this study there is no correlation between the main lv diastolic indices derived by spect and echocardiography, may be due to the main changes in the last version of guidline for assessment of lv diastolic function by echocardiography. results the population study consisted of 19 male and 30 female with the average age of 58.2 years.there is a mild negative correlation between pf...

introduction the eustachian valve (ev) remnant, when present in adults, is usually rudimentary. however, in echocardiographic examinations, it may appear as a mobile long structure in the right atrium, and it rarely protrudes into the right ventricle. when it is quite large, the ev remnant could be misdiagnosed as a right atrial tumor, thrombus, or vegetation. case presentation an 83-year-old p...

Thirty three consecutive patients with clinically suspected endocarditis were studied by both precordial cross sectional echocardiography and transoesophageal echocardiography. The diagnostic value of both techniques was assessed. The data were compared with findings at operation in 25 patients. In 21 patients with native valve endocarditis precordial echocardiography showed evidence of vegetat...

A Report From the American Society of Echocardiography’s Guidelines and Standards Committee and the Task Force on Prosthetic Valves, Developed in Conjunction With the American College of Cardiology Cardiovascular Imaging Committee, Cardiac Imaging Committee of the American Heart Association, the European Association of Echocardiography, a registered branch of the European Society of Cardiology,...

Background Transesophageal echocardiography is superior to transthoracic echocardiography in detecting left-sided valvular vegetations. There are no data on the value of transesophageal echocardiography in the diagnosis of infected transvenous permanent pacemakers. Methods and Results Transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography was performed in 10 patients for whom there was clinical sus...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this report is to assess the ability of microbubble contrast agents to enhance the visualization of cardiac structures in patients with suboptimal echocardiography results. CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY: The most common use of contrast echocardiography is the enhancement of the endocardial border. Left ventricular (LV) opacification with contrast echocardiography has the...