OBJECTIVES We aimed to investigate whether patients after tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) repair with right bundle branch block have left ventricular (LV) asynchrony and to assess the influence of ventricular asynchrony on regional and global LV function. BACKGROUND Patients after TOF repair usually have right bundle branch block. However, no data regarding LV asynchrony in this group are available...

Chronic heart disease contributes to the mortality of patients with AIDS. Although studies of left ventricular function in patients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) have been conducted, studies of right ventricular function are rare. The present study aimed to characterize the tricuspid annulus movement and evaluate the right ventricular function of patients with AIDS by tissue D...

BACKGROUND Cycle-dependent variation of myocardial integrated backscatter (CV-IB) is an objective measurement that may detect myocardial abnormalities. However, no data exist about the prognostic value of CV-IB in primary cardiac amyloidosis. METHODS AND RESULTS We prospectively examined 208 consecutive biopsy-proven patients with primary amyloidosis. The magnitude of CV-IB was analyzed at th...

Long-term follow-up of left ventricular (LV) function using echocardiography has not been reported and, in this study, was carried out in normotensive (WKY) rats and spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR). In 10 WKY rats and SHR, LV diastolic and systolic diameter (LVEDD and LVSD), shortening fraction (SF), and weight (LVW) were determined at 8, 15, 20, 35, and 80 wk of age. The ratio of early t...

The objective of our study was to compare Doppler echocardiography imaging with pulmonary artery thermodilution measurement during mechanical ventilation. Total 78 piglets (6 weeks old, average weight 24 kg, under general anesthesia) were divided into 4 groups under different cardiac loading conditions (at rest, with increased left ventricular afterload, with increased right ventricular preload...

Texts encoded using the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines (TEI) are ideally suited to close examination using a variety of digital methodologies and tools. However, because the TEI is a broad set of guidelines rather than a single schema, and because encoding practices and standards vary widely between collections, programmatic interchange among projects can be difficult. Software that operat...

This paper poses the question, how linguistic corpus-based research may be enriched by the exploitation of conceptual text structures and layout as provided via TEI annotation. Examples for possible areas of research and usage scenarios are provided based on the German historical corpus of the Deutsches Textarchiv (DTA) project, which has been consistently tagged accordant to the TEI Guidelines...

The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)Guidelines for the Encoding and Interchange of Machine-Readable Texts provide standardized encoding conventions for a large range of text types and features relevant for a broad range of applications. Given the potential challenges of encoding texts in the African languages, it will be important to establish collaboration between the TEI and projects encoding l...