AIMS To test the diagnostic potential of a hand-held ultrasound device for screening for left ventricular hypertrophy in a hypertensive population using a standard echocardiographic system as a reference. METHODS One hundred consecutive hypertensive patients were enrolled. An experienced investigator performed measurements of the thickness of the anterior septum and posterior wall using the p...

This paper describes the partial results of an echocardiographic study in sixty outbreed Wistar rats. Animals of parity sex ratio were chosen for the experiment. The animals were grown up during the observation period (the minimum weight was 220 g; the maximum weight was 909 g) and were then sequentially anaesthetised (2–2.5% of isoflurane, 3 l/min O2). The second, fourth and fifth examinations...

Patellar ligament inflammation has been reported to follow tibial plateau leveling osteotomy (TPLO) procedures. While self-limiting, severe cases can result in marked lameness and prolonged recovery. Based on favorable results for shock wave therapy (SWT) of tendon and ligament injuries in other species, a clinical trial was conducted in dogs to determine if SWT would have a beneficial effect o...

Echocardiographic septal and posterior wall thicknesses and the percent change with systole were measured in 146 patients with the following diagnoses: acute myocardial infarction (40), chronic coronary artery disease (49), congestive cardiomyopathy (8), atrial septal defect (20), and no cardiac disease (29). Mean diastolic thicknesses for the groups of patients with coronary artery disease and...

Open sinus lift surgery is a form of pre-prosthetic surgery for increasing the quality and quantity of bone in the posterior region of the maxilla. Pre-operative assessment of the maxillary sinus is essential for the success of this surgery. PubMed search was carried out in English language literature for open sinus lift surgery and cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT). The results focused on a...

Myxomas are the most common type of cardiac tumours in all age groups accounting for one-third to one-half of cases at postmortum and for about three quarter of tumours treated surgically. Most atrial myxomas, whether left or right, arise from the atrial septum. About 10% have other sites of origin, particularly posterior wall, anterior wall and the appendages (in order of frequency). Myxomas a...

Background—To assess the reliability of pediatric echocardiographic measurements, we compared local measurements with those made at a central facility. Methods and Results—The comparison was based on the first echocardiographic recording obtained on 735 children of HIV-infected mothers at 10 clinical sites focusing on measurements of left ventricular (LV) dimension, wall thicknesses, and fracti...

Background—To assess the reliability of pediatric echocardiographic measurements, we compared local measurements with those made at a central facility. Methods and Results—The comparison was based on the first echocardiographic recording obtained on 735 children of HIV-infected mothers at 10 clinical sites focusing on measurements of left ventricular (LV) dimension, wall thicknesses, and fracti...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to compare the diagnostic performances of Tl-201 single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and dobutamine stress cine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for predicting functional recovery of regional myocardial contraction in patients after myocardial infarction. METHODS Twenty patients underwent Tl-201 SPECT and MRI 3-4 weeks after onset of myo...

BACKGROUND To assess the reliability of pediatric echocardiographic measurements, we compared local measurements with those made at a central facility. METHODS AND RESULTS The comparison was based on the first echocardiographic recording obtained on 735 children of HIV-infected mothers at 10 clinical sites focusing on measurements of left ventricular (LV) dimension, wall thicknesses, and frac...