BACKGROUND Improvements in ultrasound technology has enabled direct, transthoracic visualization of long portions of coronary arteries : the left anterior descending (LAD), circumflex (Cx) and right coronary artery (RCA). Transthoracic measurements of coronary flow velocity were proved to be highly reproducible and correlated with invasive measurements. While clinical applications of transthora...

AIM To evaluate the survival of patients after surgery of the esophagus/cardia using the transthoracic and transhiatal methods. MATERIAL AND METHODS In the years 2007-2011, 102 patients were radically treated for cancer of the esophagus/cardia: 24 women and 78 men at the average age of 59.5. There were 38 transthoracic procedures and 64 transhiatal procedures. All patients had a conduit made ...

Mediastinal masses are usually assessed by computer tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Transthoracic ultrasonography (TUS) can also provide useful information concerning prevascular and posterior mediastinal masses abutting the thoracic wall, but is underused for mediastinal pathology. Moreover, it provides a valuable and safe method for guiding interventional procedures in t...

OBJECTIVES To assess patient outcome following transthoracic (Ivor-Lewis) oesophagectomy and the effects of epidural analgesia and early extubation compared with overnight sedation and ventilation. DESIGN Retrospective study. SETTING University teaching hospital, Hong Kong. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A retrospective review of patients undergoing oesophagectomy during two periods, 1990 to 1994 (...

The late results after surgical treatment of hiatus hernia are scarcely commented upon in the literature, and most re-examinations do not state if radiological examinations have been performed on all the patients during the period of follow-up. We find this to be indispensable. The purpose of this investigation has been to assess the late results in a group of patients suffering from hiatus her...

The purpose of this study was to compare patient populations, safety, feasibility, complications, and total costs of the transcatheter and transthoracic device closure treatments for secundum atrial septal defect.From January 2014 to December 2014, we enrolled 155 patients with secundum atrial septal defects in our hospital. The patients were divided into 2 groups: the 70 patients in group A un...

OBJECTIVES To characterize the association of hospital discharge survival with left ventricular systolic function evaluated by transthoracic echocardiography and vasoactive infusion support following return of spontaneous circulation after pediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. DESIGN Retrospective case series. SETTING Single-center tertiary care pediatric cardiac arrest and critical car...

Address for correspondence: Dr. Jayaprasad Narayanapillai, Department of Cardiology, Government Medical College, Kottayam ‐ 686 008, Kerala, India. E‐mail: [email protected] Figure 2: Transthoracic echocardiographic parasternal long axis view showing severe eccentric aortic regurgitation jet Figure 1: Transthoracic echocardiographic parasternal long axis view showing dilated aortic root inv...

Two cases of infective endocarditis with vegetations attached to the mitral and tricuspid annuli are described. In both cases, the vegetations could not be identified by transthoracic echocardiography. These cases illustrate the advantage of TEE over the transthoracic approach in recognizing vegetations in extravalvular locations.

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