Cardiac resynchronization therapy tailored by echocardiographic evaluation of ventricular asynchrony. JACC 2002;40:1615–22. 5. Cazeau S, Bordacher P, Jauvert A et al. Echocardiographic modeling of cardiac dyssynchrony before and during multisite stimulation. PACE 2003;26:1–7. 6. Yu CM, Fung WH, Lin H et al. Predictors of left ventricular reverse remodeling after ischemic cardiomyopathy. Am J Ca...

BACKGROUND Assessment of right ventricular (RV) volumes and function is important in patients after tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) repair. Currently, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is considered the clinical reference method for RV volume and function measurements. Three-dimensional (3D) knowledge-based reconstruction derived from two-dimensional echocardiographic imaging with magnetic tra...

OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency of occurrence and long term evolution of subclinical carditis in patients with acute rheumatic fever. DESIGN Valvar incompetence was detected by clinical examination and Doppler echocardiographic imaging during the acute and quiescent phases of rheumatic fever. Patients were followed prospectively and submitted to repeat examinations at one and five years ...

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BACKGROUND Clinical or echocardiographic mid-term responses to cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) may have a different influence on a long-term prognosis of heart failure patients treated with CRT. The aim of the evaluation was to establish which definition of response to CRT, clinical or echocardiographic, best predicts long-term prognosis. METHODS AND RESULTS A total of 679 heart failu...

BACKGROUND Ventricular arrhythmias are common in patients with mitral valve prolapse (MVP). Previous studies have provided evidence that a higher degree of systolic mitral valve displacement and the presence of a thickened anterior mitral leaflet are related to an increased incidence of complex ventricular arrhythmias and risk of sudden death in these patients. The aim of our study was to inves...

Physiologic changes in the circulatory system caused by performing the Valsalva maneuver are blunted or absent in patients with congestive heart failure. Previously there has been no noninvasive method for examining cardiac chamber size during this maneuver. M-mode echocardiography was used to evaluate possible changes in cardiac chamber dimensions in 12 normal subjects (group I) and 15 patient...

In this paper we present a method to quantify the cardiac blood irrigation through echographic images for heart disease diagnosis. This method relies on the registration of acquired images with a heart model in order to provide a robust segmentation of the cardiac walls, giving the doctor precise and non subjective anatomical information, as well as to advance towards future works oriented to a...

AMA Bugała K, Drabik L, Niekurzak A, Tyfel-Paluszek J, Płazak W. Echocardiographic correlates of dyspnoea during acute decompensated heart failure treatment. Medical Studies/Studia Medyczne. 2023;39(2):140-147. doi:10.5114/ms.2023.129042. APA Bugała, K., Drabik, L., Niekurzak, A., Tyfel-Paluszek, J., & Płazak, (2023). Medyczne, 39(2), 140-147. https://doi.org/10.5114/ms.2023.129042 Chicago Kami...

conclusion the cv value correlated more closely with low lvef and more accurately indicated an enlarged heart than ca or ctr. this may be due to the fact that an anteroposterior measurement of heart size is included in the former but not the latter two measurements. these study results may help quantify left heart enlargement with greater accuracy than may be obtained from standard cxr. backgro...