background: pulmonary arterial hypertension is a complication of most congenital heart diseases. we sought to assess the effect of sildenafil on patients suffering from pulmonary arterial hypertension in association with congenital heart disease on the basis of clinical and echocardiographic parameters and compare the catheterization and treatment results so as to evaluate the predictive value ...

conclusions in this study there is no correlation between the main lv diastolic indices derived by spect and echocardiography, may be due to the main changes in the last version of guidline for assessment of lv diastolic function by echocardiography. results the population study consisted of 19 male and 30 female with the average age of 58.2 years.there is a mild negative correlation between pf...

right atrial dilation due to left heart disease is a common complication among adults. the present review aimed to describe a case of massively dilated right atrium in a female patient presenting with valvular heart disease and no atrial fibrillation. the results of chest x-ray revealed a large opacity filling the lower right hemithorax, falsely interpreted as a mediastinal mass. during the tra...

OBJECTIVE Changing patterns of immigration to North America, along with improved treatment, have altered the clinical spectrum of thalassemia, one of the world's most common genetic diseases. The new demography of the disease, with its widely variable phenotypes, has implications for its diagnosis, counseling, and management. Characterization of the new spectrum of this ancient disease, now pre...

Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is an important cause of the heart failure. Timely diagnosis and optimal management decrease morbidity and mortality in heart failure patients. Although transthoracic echocardiography is used as the diagnostic test of choice in these patients, new modalities like speckle tracking echocardiography (STE) have promising results in diagnosing these patients in the earli...

Systolic and diastolic dysfunction of the left ventricle (LV) is a hallmark of most cardiac diseases. In vivo assessment of heart function in animal models, particularly mice, is essential to refining our understanding of cardiovascular disease processes. Ultrasound echocardiography has emerged as a powerful, noninvasive tool to serially monitor cardiac performance and map the progression of he...

Background: Heart murmurs are extra and abnormal sounds made by turbulent flow of blood through heart. The most common cardiac abnormality found on auscultation is murmur. Edler regarded as father echocardiography. This based reflection sound waves heart structures similar to the radio detection ranging (RADAR) navigation (SONAR).Methods: Our study was done in PICU Kempegowda Institute Medical ...

Echocardiography remains the most frequently performed cardiac imaging investigation and is an invaluable tool for detailed and accurate evaluation of cardiac structure and function. Echocardiography, nuclear cardiology, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, and cardiovascular-computed tomography comprise the subspeciality of cardiovascular imaging, and these techniques are often used together fo...

This review covers the role of three-dimensional (3D) echocardiography in the diagnosis of heart valve disease. Several factors have contributed to the evolution of this technique, which is currently a simple and routine method: rapid evolution in probe and computer technologies, demonstration that 3D data sets allowed more complete and accurate evaluation of cardiac structures, emerging clinic...

Some hematological diseases can benefit from splenectomy for either diagnosis or treatment. When dealing with patients with thalassemia, splenectomy is a common therapeutic option, particularly indicated when the patient has increased transfusion demand, symptomatic splenomegaly or any signs of poor health, leucopenia, and thrombocytopenia.1 However, splenectomy can lead to thromboembolic event...