BACKGROUND Smaller echocardiography machines, when used in hospitals, are accurate for detecting left ventricular dysfunction and valvular disease. This paper assessed the detection of left ventricular dysfunction and of valvular disease in the community setting by a smaller machine. AIMS To measure the agreement in patients with suspected heart failure between community echocardiography and ...

Dermatomyositis is an idiopathic inflammatory myopathy with involvement of muscle, skin and other organs. Valvular heart disease increases the risk of perioperative adverse cardiac events. Only a little information is available about the anaesthetic management of a patient with dermatomyositis and valvular heart disease. Here we considered combined spinal-epidural technique for total abdominal ...

Purpose Aortic regurgitation by CMR has been assessed in various locations, including sinus of valsalva (SOV), sinotubular junction (STJ), and ascending aorta (ASC). Variability in obtained measurements and interchangeability of these locations and methods in patients with varying valvular disease severity is unknown. We sought to determine the most appropriate aortic level for accurate phase c...

BACKGROUND Among the vascular involvements of Takayasu arteritis, a supra-valvular aortic stenosis has been reported very rarely. We report a case of surgically corrected, supra-valvular aortic stenosis caused by Takayasu arteritis. CASE PRESENTATION A 32-year-old female was diagnosed with supra-valvular aortic stenosis by transthoracic echocardiography for the evaluation of cardiac murmur wi...

A comparison of several reported methods for detection and quantitation of left-to-right shunts by radionuclides was performed in 50 children. Count ratio (C2/C1) techniques were compared with the exponential extrapolation and gamma function area ratio techniques. C2/C1 ratios accurately detected shunts and could reliably separate shunts from normals, but there was a high rate of false positive...

The purpose of this European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) Survey was to assess the perceptions of 'valvular' atrial fibrillation (AF) and management of AF patients with various heart valve abnormalities in daily clinical practice in European electrophysiology (EP) centres. Questionnaire survey was sent via the Internet to the EHRA-EP Research Network Centres. Of the 52 responding centres, 42...