Introduction Echocardiography is the most important and most commonly used noninvasive imaging modality in patients with coronary artery disease. However, suspected stenoses of the coronary arteries are routinely detected owing to ischemia
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Stephan Stoebe, Katharina Lange, Dietrich Pfeiffer, and Andreas Hagendorff
Jamal N Khan, Timothy Griffiths, Tamseel Fatima, Leah Michael, Andreea Mihai, Zeeshan Mustafa, Kully Sandhu, Robert Butler, Simon Duckett, and Grant Heatlie
Introduction The expanding responsibilities and skillset of the Highly Specialised Cardiac Echocardiography Physiologist include performance and analysis of exercise and dobutamine stress echocardiography studies ( 1 , 2 ). Physiologist
Hannah R Bellsham-Revell, Antigoni Deri, Silvia Caroli, Andrew Durward, Owen I Miller, Sujeev Mathur, Jelena Saundankar, David R Anderson, B Conal Austin, Caner Salih, Kuberan Pushparajah, and John M Simpson
better to apply such a scoring system intraoperatively to inform adequacy of surgery at a time when the surgeon can immediately revise the repair. We report our initial experience of introducing the TPS during intraoperative echocardiography at a
Rienzi Díaz-Navarro and Petros Nihoyannopoulos
patients with a cardiac Ps will display symptoms of heart failure, dyspnea or chest pain; however, 10% of such patients can be asymptomatic ( 2 ). Two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography (2DTTE) is a suitable initial method for diagnosing Ps of the
Allan Harkness, Liam Ring, Daniel X Augustine, David Oxborough, Shaun Robinson, Vishal Sharma, and the Education Committee of the British Society of Echocardiography
recommending measuring (and reporting) the LVEF as accurately as possible. The American Society of Echocardiography and European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging have also remained consistent in their definition of severe LVEF as <30% in their 2015
Jalal Asadi, Sanjay S Bhandari, and Nauman Ahmed
cardiac enzymes (troponin and creatinine kinase) ( 4 ). Echocardiography allows general morphological and functional assessment of the heart and can be used to assess myocardial contraction, ejection fraction and to exclude other valvular lesions; however
Stephan Stoebe, Dietrich Pfeiffer, and Andreas Hagendorff
Introduction The visualisation of specific parts of coronary artery branches with 2D echocardiography is generally possible, but not very common in the clinical scenario. The left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) is located in the anterior
Thomas Sturmberger, Johannes Niel, Josef Aichinger, and Christian Ebner
patient was referred to our hospital for coronary angiography. Investigation In our institution, a comprehensive transthoracic echocardiography was performed, showing normal regional wall motion with preserved left ventricle ejection fraction
Jet van Zalen, Nikhil R Patel, Steven J Podd, Prashanth Raju, Rob McIntosh, Gary Brickley, Louisa Beale, Lydia P Sturridge, and Guy W L Lloyd
with compatible findings on a resting echocardiogram (2) . Patients with systolic dysfunction respond to a range of physical and medical therapies, but nonetheless have a poor prognosis (3) . Resting echocardiography and particularly left ventricular
John M Simpson and Annemien van den Bosch
Introduction Three-dimensional echocardiography (3DE) has become a complementary echocardiographic modality in the management of patients with congenital heart disease. 3DE is used frequently in children, but also its role in the long