Using echocardiography flexible Transthoracic Echocardiography reported data set detecting heart disease by using mining techniques designed prediction model the data set can develop the reliability of analysis of cardiac diseases by echocardiography, using eight iterative and interactive steps consisting Knowledge Discovery in Database (KDD) methodology including from 209 patients with echocar...

Background: Thalassemia is one of the common inherited blood disorders and Beta Major a homozygous form deficiency beta globin chain synthesis causing severe transfusion-dependent anemia, manifesting between 6 24 months life. Objectives: The objective study to pattern cardiac function in children adolescents with beta-thalassemia major by 2D Echocardiography its correlation serum ferritin level...

The increased experience in interpretation of fetal echocardiographic images may change the accuracy of fetal echocardiography in diagnosing fetal heart defects. We thus decided to evaluate the specificity and the sensitivity of our fetal echocardiographic examinations in diagnosing congenital heart disease, focusing especially on the outcome of complex cardiac pathologies. Between October 1999...

The term 'athlete's heart' refers to a clinical picture characterized by a slow heart rate and enlargement of the heart. A multi-modality imaging approach to the athlete's heart aims to differentiate physiological changes due to intensive training in the athlete's heart from serious cardiac diseases with similar morphological features. Imaging assessment of the athlete's heart should begin with...

Epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) is a component of the visceral adiposity located between the heart and pericardium. It is associated with certain diseases, such as metabolic syndrome, coronary artery disease, and hypertension. Therefore, measurement of EAT thickness has recently gained importance. Examination by transthoracic echocardiography for measuring EAT thickness is preferable because of...

conclusions moderate ppm has no negative effect on echocardiographic trans-aortic pressure gradients or the patients’ nyha functional status after avr with a carbomedics prosthesis in the mid-term follow up. results of the 66 studied patients, 39 were male and 27 were female. the mean age of the patients was 43 ± 17 with a range of 6 - 76 years. implanted sizes of the carbomedics av prosthesis ...

Received May 2007 Accepted September 2007 INTRODUCTION Priapism (painful erection longer than 6 hours) is an uncommon disease that is almost always due to thromboembolic problems. It may occur at any age. The predisposing factors for priapism include thromboembolic disorders such as sickle cell anemia (SCA, the most common cause), sicklebeta-thalassemia, diseases of the central nervous system a...

INTRODUCTION In patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc), associated pulmonary arterial hypertension (SSc-APAH) is the leading cause of death. The objective of this prospective screening study was to analyse sensitivity and specificity of stress Doppler echocardiography (SDE) in detecting pulmonary hypertension (PH). METHODS Pulmonary artery pressures and further parameters of PH were assessed ...

OBJECTIVES (1) To investigate heart morphology and function using echocardiography and tissue Doppler imaging (TDI), (2) to determine heart disease prevalence and characteristics, and (3) to assess potential genetic features in a population of Sphynx cats presented for cardiovascular screening. ANIMALS A total of 147 echocardiographic examinations, including 33 follow-ups, were performed by t...

The ultrasound examination is a diagnostic tool of choice for ante mortem evaluation of heart diseases. Specific anatomical features of the ophidian heart such as mobility in the coelomic cavity, a single ventricular cavity, a tubular sinus venosus opening into the right atrium, and the presence of three arterial trunks, have direct consequences on the echocardiographic examination. We propose ...