BACKGROUND This article provides an overview of the application of intraoperative echocardiography during repair of congenital heart defects based on our experience with 1,000 patients. METHODS The patients in this study all underwent repair of a congenital heart defect between 1987 and 1994 at Duke University Medical Center. Echocardiography was performed on all patients in the operating roo...

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Advances in the imaging techniques of the heart have fueled the interest in understanding of right heart pathology. Recently, speckle tracking echocardiography has shown to aid in understanding various right heart diseases and better management. Its role is well established in diagnosing right heart failure, pulmonary artery hypertension, arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia and congenita...

conclusions the cardiac grafts at 5 months' post-htx follow-up were characterized by normal lv dimensions and ef. also, rv dysfunction and tricuspid regurgitation were frequent findings, but they were not associated with the clinical signs of congestive heart failure, morbidity, and mortality in the majority of our patients. background in patients with advanced heart failure, significant improv...

patients and methods forty five young female volunteer athletes were included and received different training regimens (endurance-training, strength training and concurrent groups) for a 10 week period as study intervention. standard color doppler echocardiography was performed for assessment of the left ventricular activity. results as a result, 45 athletes ended the study training regimens. m...

Background and Aims: Fetal echocardiography is helpful in early detection of Congenital Heart Disease.Our study was conducted to evaluate the most common indications of referral and outcome in a tertiary-care fetal echocardiography practice. Methods: A Cross-sectional analysis of all pregnant women referred by obstetricians to cardiology unit for fetal echocardiography over a 1-year period (Jul...

Objective: Patients with single functional ventricles have a bad prognostic; most result in heart failure even after operation. The right heart bypass operations, except for right atrium and right ventricle connections, lack pulsatile flow and the volume returning to the common ventricle is low. To solve this problem, we tried to experimentally create a pulmonary ventricle which produces pulsat...

OBJECTIVE Chronic heart failure is associated with neurohormonal activation that is not only related to outcome but is also a therapeutic target. We have attempted to demonstrate whether a similar pattern of neurohormonal activation exists in adult congenital heart disease (ACHD) and, if so, whether it relates to disease severity determined by cardiopulmonary exercise testing. METHODS AND RES...

OBJECTIVES This study sought to assess both the feasibility and potential role of transthoracic three-dimensional echocardiography for the evaluation of adult patients with congenital heart disease. BACKGROUND The unrestricted views with depth perception provided by three-dimensional echocardiography with dynamic volume-rendered display may enhance visualization of cardiac structures and dete...