Left ventricular systolic function of cardiac allografts.

LEFT VENTRICULAR DIASTOLIC ABNORMALITIES IN β-THALASSEMIA MAJOR WITH NORMAL SYSTOLIC FUNCTION

In order to identify left ventricular diastolic function in patients with betathalassemia major and normal systolic function by noninvasive M-mode and Doppler echocardiography, an analytic study was designed in a university hospital in Sari. We have studied 44 patients (23 men and 21 women), mean age 15.48±2.16 (range 12 to 20) and 43 age and sex matched control subjects. Peak flow velocit...

Normal Value of Left Ventricular End-Systolic Elastance in Infants and Children

Background: In certain conditions, there is a need for a specific and improved measure of cardiac performance.  Routine methods for assessing left ventricular (LV) function are based on image-analysis or right heart monitoring which do not allow evaluation of ventriculo-arterial interaction. Chen et al presented a noninvasive method allowing measurement of end-systolic pressure–volume relation ...

evaluation of the effect of cardiac rehabilitation on left ventricular diastolic and systolic function and cardiac chamber size in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention

background: exercise and rehabilitation are important methods for decreasing the risk factors of coronary artery disease (cad). we aimed to evaluate the effect of the cardiac rehabilitation (cr) exercise program on the cardiac structure and physiology in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (pci). methods: in this randomized controlled study, 146 patients with cad were divided...

Procedure guideline for planar radionuclide cardiac ventriculogram for the assessment of left ventricular systolic function.

Assessment of the left ventricular systolic function in cardiac syndrome X using speckle tracking echocardiography

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate left ventricular (LV) systolic strain by speckle tracking echocardiography (STE) and real-time three-dimensional echocardiography (3-DE) for the early detection of myocardial dysfunction in patients with cardiac syndrome X (CSX). METHODS We compared 34 patients with CSX (18 females, mean age 47.9±10.0 years) with 41 healthy persons as a control ...