background: considering suggested formula in the references and pcwp measured by catheterism, in the present study the relation between pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (pcwp) measured the flow velocity of mitral valve and mitral annulus motion through tissue doppler imaging is evaluated methods: 52 cases of severe ms were admitted for balloon mitral valvolotomy (bmv) are included in this stu...

Objective: Ankylosing spondylitis is a part of diseases called “seronegative spondyloarthropathy”. Affects the vertebral column, sacroiliac joint and peripheral joints. This chronic rheumatic disorder involved extra -articular parts like Heart, lungs, central nervous system eyes. lead to multiple cardiac complication such as systolic diastolic dysfunction left ventricle, valvular involvement , ...

Accessory mitral valve tissue, a rare cause of left ventricular outflow tract obstruction, can be difficult to diagnose preoperatively and confusing even at surgery. The reported case illustrates how preoperative evaluation can be made using two-dimensional echocardiography combined with Doppler flow analysis. The intraoperative technique for removing the accessory tissue without causing damage...

BACKGROUND Previous research has demonstrated the prognostic value of echocardiography with tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) in the heart failure (HF) population. Heart rate recovery (HRR) has also recently shown promise as a prognostic marker. HYPOTHESIS We hypothesize echocardiography with TDI and HRR will be significantly correlated and both will provide prognostic information. METHODS A tot...

We read with the great interest the recently published article by Kovacs et al 1 (August 2010) indicating that exercise Doppler echocardiography (EDE) can be a useful, noninvasive screening tool to detect an increase in systolic pulmonary artery pressure (PAP) during exercise in patients with connective tissue disease. However, in our opinion, there are some interesting issues to be discussed. ...

results the mean age of patients was 60 ± 9.9 years. statistically significant relationship between the occurrence of af with mitral valve annulus, la volume index (lavi) , right ventricle function, and type of surgery (off pump or on pump) were detected in our study (p < 0.05) . there was no statistically significant relationship between the occurrence of af and time interval of p wave to a wa...

BACKGROUND Non-invasive survey of left ventricular end-diastolic pressure (LVEDP) by transmitral Doppler echocardiography and tissue Doppler imaging carries important information about left ventricular diastolic function in chosen subsets of patients. This study is planned to assess whether mitral annular velocities (lateral annulus) as assessed by tissue Doppler imaging and transmitral Doppler...

BACKGROUND Endomyocardial biopsy (EMB) is the gold standard method for the diagnosis of cellular rejection (CR) after heart transplantation (HT). OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) could detect CR > 3A and add diagnostic information compared to conventional Doppler. METHODS Fifty-four HT patients underwent 129 EMB and a TDI echocardiographic study within 24 h...