this paper presents the case of a 35 year-old woman with symptoms of heart failure from the last month. a physical examination at admission showed paleness, dyspnea, peripheral edema and fatigue. in a two-dimensional echocardiography and transesophageal echocardiography, normal thickness but severe left and right ventricular dysfunction with severe pericardial effusion and thickened pericardium...

an elevated pulmonary artery pressure (pap) from any cause is associated with increased mortality, especially in cases of primary pulmonary arterial hypertension (pah). one of the many reasons behind a bad prognosis is the inherent difficulty in assessing right ventricular (rv) function with reproducible methods. intensive research involving the left heart has made it relatively easy to assess ...

introduction: the correlation between right and left ventricular ejection fractions (rvef and lvef, respectively) has been studied in only a small number of patients with a marked decrease in rvef and lvef. the aim of the present study was to compare lvef and rvef in patients with ischemic heart disease. rvef and lvef were measured by cardiovascular magnetic resonance (cmr) imaging. materials a...

conclusions there is a significant increased incidence of mortality, prolonged hospitalization, and rehospitalization in symptomatic patients with severe tr. therefore, we recommend more aggressive approach toward tv repair or replacement in these patients regardless of pap and systolic function. results heart failure (50%) was the most cause of death. mean years of survival from diagnosis of s...

background pulmonary artery hypertension is the presentation of various types of cardiovascular and systematic diseases. there are different kinds of noninvasive methods to determine right ventricular function, pulmonary artery pressure, and effect of pulmonary hypertension on right ventricular function. these methods include the tissue doppler imaging (tdi) of the tricuspid annulus and the lon...

background: diabetes mellitus is capable of impairing the myocardial function. several studies have documented the influential impact of diabetes mellitus on the left ventricular function. the right ventricular function plays a significant role in the overall myocardial contractility; hence, this study was undertaken to evaluate the effect of diabetes mellitus type ii on the right ventricular f...

assessment of cardiac right‑ventricle functions plays an essential role in diagnosis of arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia (arvd). among clinical tests, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (mri) is now becoming the most valid imaging technique to diagnose arvd. fatty infiltration of the right ventricular free wall can be visible on cardiac mri. finding right‑ventricle functional paramete...