As the effects of anabolic steroids on left ventricular structure and function are unknown, we carried out clinical examination, 12 lead electrocardiography and echocardiography on a 23 year old male bodybuilder using these drugs. In this subject we found values of ECG voltage criteria, left ventricular-mass, posterior wall and interventricular septal thickness which exceeded those found in nor...

Various kinds of abnormal, asynchronous electric activation of the left ventricle (LV) decrease mechanical load in early versus late activated regions of the ventricular wall. Because myocardium usually adapts its mass to changes in workload, we investigated by echocardiography whether regional differences in wall thickness are present in two kinds of asynchronous electric activation of differe...

Electrocardiograms and M-mode echocardiograms were obtained prospectively from 72 patients with hemoglobin SS (n = 55) or SC (n = 17) disease to assess the prevalence of abnormal Q waves in sickle cell disease and to determine if such Q waves could be explained by, or related to, echocardiographically determined anatomic or functional abnormalities. The mean age (+/- SD) of the population under...

A6-month-old girl (3.5 months corrected, born at 28 weeks gestational age) presented with a history of increasing tachypnea, diaphoresis, difficulty feeding, and poor weight gain. A 15-lead ECG done on day 41 of life had revealed normal sinus rhythm with a nonspecific intraventricular conduction delay. At that time, clinically there was a soft systolic murmur and no evidence of congestive heart...

Twenty preterm infants were studied serially with Doppler echocardiography to document changes in pulmonary artery pressure, myocardial thickness, and patent ductus arteriosus associated with dexamethasone treatment for chronic lung disease. Pulmonary artery pressure was assessed with Doppler, by its inverse correlation with the ratio of the pulmonary artery time to peak velocity (TPV) and righ...

The aim of this study was to verify the accuracy of echocardiography by dual-source computed tomography (DSCT). Seven normal beagles underwent DSCT and echocardiography. Echocardiographic measurements were obtained according to the American Society of Echocardiography guidelines. The DSCT images were reconstructed onto the same echocardiographic image plane by using a reconstruction program, an...

We read the article entitled “Importance of epicardial adipose tissue thickness measurement in obese adolescents, its relationship with carotid intima-media thickness, and echocardiographic findings” by Boyraz et al with interest1. They found a close relationship between epicardial adipose tissue thickness and some echocardiograhic parameters in obese adolescents to early detection of cardiac d...

BACKGROUND Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a heterogeneous endocrine disorder among reproductive-aged women. It is known to be associated with cardiovascular diseases. The aim of this study was to determine and compare the echocardiographic data of patients according to the phenotypes of PCOS. METHODS This study included 113 patients with PCOS and 52 controls. Patients were classified int...

OBJECTIVE To examine left ventricular function after surgical resection of subaortic stenosis during childhood. DESIGN Left ventricular performance was measured non-invasively in all patients who responded to an invitation for formal assessment. SETTING Outpatient study, tertiary referral centre. PATIENTS Twenty three (12 male and 11 female) patients (age range 3 to 31 years) of 43 consec...

To assess the adaptation of the left ventricle to a chronic pressure overload we used echocardiography to study 18 patients with left ventricular hypertrophy caused by systemic arterial hypertension. Increased values for either posterior wall or interventricular septal thickness or both confirmed the presence of left ventricular hypertrophy in all patients and an increase in the average wall th...