INTRODUCTION Last year the European Society of Echocardiography published recommendations for the use of echocardiography in identifying potential sources of embolism as a cause of ischemic stroke in the absence of other cerebrovascular diseases. Both transthoracic echocardiography and transesophageal echocardiography play a fundamental role in the assessment, diagnosis and management of the em...

Patients and methods: The study group included 40 patients, selected consecutively from patients presented to Ain Shams university Hospitals with coronary artery disease as proved by diagnostic coronary angiography and recommended for potential coronary revascularization. Each patient underwent baseline transthoracic echocardiography, in addition to low dose dobutamine echocardiography using TD...

Cardiac echinococcosis is an infrequent disease and is seen in 0.2–3% of patients with echinococcal disease. Transthoracic echocardiography has been used to diagnose and evaluate intracardiac echinococcosis. 2 Septal involvement of the hydatid cyst is observed quite rarely and is always associated with various conduction disturbances, as well as sudden death from arrhythmias. Cardiac involvemen...

OBJECTIVE Atrial septal defect (ASD) device closure is routinely done under the guide of transesophageal or intracardiac echocardiography which are expensive techniques and not easily affordable in developing countries. METHODS Using metallic devices, we attempted 32 ASD device closures under transthoracic echocardiography. FINDINGS Of those, 30 procedures were successful (94 %). In two pat...

OBJECTIVE To determine the importance of contrast echocardiography in the diagnosis of intrapulmonary vascular dilations in patients with severe liver disease, who are candidates for liver transplantation. METHODS The study comprised 76 patients with chronic liver disease and no evidence of intrinsic pulmonary disease, heart failure, or congenital heart disease with intracardiac communication...

PURPOSE We sought to determine the appropriate use of echocardiography for patients with suspected endocarditis. PATIENTS AND METHODS We constructed a decision tree and Markov model using published data to simulate the outcomes and costs of care for patients with suspected endocarditis. RESULTS Transesophageal imaging was optimal for patients who had a prior probability of endocarditis that...

OBJECTIVE To assess and compare the roles of transthoracic and transoesophageal echocardiography in the diagnosis and management of an aortic root abscess. DESIGN To select patients with echocardiographic diagnosis of aortic valve endocarditis with and without an aortic root abscess and correlate this with a retrospective review of surgical and necropsy data. SETTING Tertiary referral centr...

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A patient suspected of Covid-19 pneumonia, in whom pneumonia lesions were first detected by chest computed tomography, was further evaluated transthoracic echocardiography due to cardiomegaly. Transthoracic revealed a large right atrial-related ruptured pseudoaneurysm. Contrast-enhanced tomography ruled out bilateral multiple lung nodules and pulmonary embolism associated with mural thrombus th...

t akotsubo cardiomyopathy (tcm), also known as stress-induced cardiomyopathy, is a clinical syndrome of transient left ventricular (lv) apical wall motion abnormality with relative preservation of the basal heart segments in the absence of any significant atherosclerosis. recurrence of this condition is rare. we report a postmenopausal woman, who experienced two episodes of tcm within 4 months ...