It is usually concluded that postmenopausal women have an increased incidence of coronarny artery disease. In this study, it was investigated whether there alteration in cardiac function natural women. The subjects were 41 who had no history about disease, 21 whom women(the experimental group), and 20 premenopausal (control group). Physical examination Electrocardiogram these normal. Left ventr...

Ultrasound and MRI are useful in assessing wall motion and systolic thickening with 2D images. Volumetric data of the helical CT provide frozen 3D images. We sought to determine whether helical CT could assess left ventricular wall motion with 3D animation. We have developed a new cardiac application, ventriculography by 4D enhanced helical CT (4D-CT-VG), which can assess wall motion with 3D an...

OBJECTIVES We assessed the abilities of two methods to measure ejection fraction (EF)-radionuclide ventriculography (RVG) and contrast left ventriculography (Cath-EFa) to predict cardiovascular events. BACKGROUND Both RVG and Cath-EFa are commonly used methods to measure left ventricular performance and assess prognosis. Their comparative abilities to predict clinical events have not been rep...

AIMS To prospectively compare the agreement of left ventricular volumes and ejection fraction by M-mode echocardiography (echo), 2D echo, radionuclide ventriculography and cardiovascular magnetic resonance performed in patients with chronic stable heart failure. It is important to know whether the results of each technique are interchangable, and thereby how the results of large studies in hear...

The clinical significance of the abnormalities seen at left ventriculography in ischaemic heart disease is discussed. Aneurysms may be recognized when left ventriculography is combined with coronary arteriography to show the characteristic obliteration of the supplying artery. Localized areas of abnormal contraction seen at rest are almost certainly indicative of infarcts. Similar areas provoke...

The value of nitroglycerin in determining the potential reversibility of asynergy was examined in 35 patients with coronary heart disease. Ventriculograms performed at rest and after sublingual nitroglycerin were analyzed for (1) location of asynergy relative to distribution of the 3 major coronary arteries and (2) severity of asynergy. Of the 41 hypokinetic zones, 30 (73%) improved following n...