Echocardiography is the most common diagnostic tool for patients with heart disease, providing detailed information about cardiovascular morphology and hemodynamics previously available only by angiography and catheterization. It is noninvasive, widely available and inexpensive. With its huge evidence base, echocardiography has a central position in modern cardiac diagnosis and management. Rece...

AIMS The aims of this study were (1) to evaluate the relationship between novel two-dimensional transthoracic indices of left atrial (LA) mechanical function (speckle-tracking- and tissue Doppler-derived parameters), conventional indices (A-wave peak velocity and velocity-time integral, and A' velocity), and transoesophageal echocardiographic parameters (LA appendage emptying velocity and spont...

Background Diabetes mellitus type I (DMTI) is one of the most common endocrine and metabolic conditions in childhood. We aimed to assess the tissue Doppler imagining changes in children with DMTI compared to healthy children. Materials and Methods This case-control study was performed on 96 DMTI and 96 healthy children. The d...

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was the evaluation of the effects of glycemic control in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes on cardiac functions. METHODS Diabetic patients were divided into two groups as well-controlled and poorly controlled patients. All patients underwent M-mode, two-dimensions (2D), pulsed wave (PW) Doppler, and tissue Doppler (TDI) echocardiography to evaluate ...

objectives in this study, besides studying the rv function in ssc patients, attempts have been made to find a new possible noninvasive echocardiographic test for early diagnosis of systolic failure as a pah complication. methods 30 patients with at least a 2-year history of diffuse ssc confirmed by an expert rheumatologist were enrolled in this study. all the patients underwent transthoracic ec...

BACKGROUND Availability of normative reference values for cardiac chamber dimensions, volumes, mass, and function is a prerequisite for the accurate application of echocardiography for both clinical and research purposes. However, due to the lack of consistency in current echocardiographic 'reference values', their use for clinical decision-making remains questionable. AIMS The aim of the 'No...

background: ischemic mitral regurgitation (imr) is a common complication after acute myocardial infarction (ami). we aimed to investigate the frequency of imr following first-time ami and its association with infarct location, in-hospital mortality, and complications. methods: from september 2011 to november 2012, all patients with a diagnosis of first-time acute st-elevation mi were enrolled i...

conclusions large-scale studies on the healthy black african population could assess the relationship between diastolic dyssynchrony and changes in myocardial performance related to racial differences. results the frequency of some dyssynchrony markers was similar to that of other studies. the difference between maximal time-to-peak systolic velocity and minimal time-to-peak systolic velocity w...

Background: Tissue Doppler Echocardiography (TDE) assesses diastolic function more accurately than routine pulse Doppler echo. Assessment of the effects of dynamic and static exercises on the heart by using TDE can provides new information about the athlete’s heart syndrome. Methods: This study was conducted on 20 elite wrestlers, 14 endurance runners at national level and 21 non-athletes as th...