BACKGROUND: Primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is the reperfusion strategy of choice in ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). Transfer for early angioplasty after thrombolytic therapy should be done without delay and has been directly related to improved patients’ outcome compared with thrombolysis alone. TIMI perfusion (TMP) grade provides important prognostic information e...

AIM To evaluate the changes in ocular blood flow with color Doppler ultrasonography (CDU) after intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide (IVTA) injection. METHODS A total of 46 patients who underwent IVTA (4 mg/0.1 mL) injection for diabetic macular edema (DME) (n=22), central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO) (n=12) and choroidal neovascular membrane (CNVM) (n=12) were included in the study. Peak sy...

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is associated with characteristic structural and functional changes of the myocardium, termed diabetic cardiomyopathy. As a distinct entity independent of coronary atherosclerosis, diabetic cardiomyopathy is an increasingly recognized cause of heart failure. A detailed understanding of diabetic cardiac dysfunction, using relevant animal models, is required for the effecti...

UNLABELLED This prospective study evaluated the accuracy of electrocardiogram-gated blood-pool SPECT (GBPS) for the assessment of left ventricular (LV) and right ventricular (RV) ejection fraction (EF), end-diastolic volume (EDV), and end-systolic volume (ESV) in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), using cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging as the reference standard. METHODS Thirt...

PURPOSE the aim was to investigate the effect of intermittent pneumatic foot compression (IPC(foot)) on popliteal artery haemodynamics in normal individuals and in patients with intermittent claudication due to peripheral vascular disease (PVD) (Fontaine stage II). MATERIAL AND METHODS popliteal artery volume flow [vFl], pulsatility index [PI], mean velocity [mV], peak systolic [PSV] and end ...

conclusions gated spect mpi has a good correlation with echocardiography for the measurement of left ventricular ef, edv, and esv in patients with severe heart failure. however, the absolute values of these functional parameters from echocardiography and gated spect mpi measured with different software packages should not be used interchangeably. results a good correlation was found between ech...

BACKGROUND Boxer dogs are predisposed to congenital and adult onset cardiac diseases. Breed-specific reference values for M-mode and Doppler echocardiographic measurements previously have been established. Left ventricular (LV) end-systolic (ESV) and end-diastolic volumes (EDV) can be measured by M-mode or two-dimensional methods, such as Simpson's method of discs (SMOD). Reference ranges for S...

In this article, functional structures on the ovaries of bitches before and after ovulation are evaluated with Doppler ultrasonography information concerning interpretations findings transferred. effect is first step imaging. This shift in frequency transmitted ultrasound. Spectral and/or color easiest most important diagnostic technique assessing ovarian hemodynamic. The angle used by instrume...

BACKGROUND Left ventricular (LV) remodeling following acute myocardial infarction (MI) is difficult to predict at an individual level although a possible interfering role of vascular function has yet to be considered to date. This study aimed to determine the extent to which this LV remodeling is influenced by the concomitant evolution of vascular function and LV loading conditions, as assessed...