Acute myocardial infarction (MI) remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide [1]. It affects both systolic and diastolic functions [2]. In hospital complications of myocardial infarction include arrhythmia, heart failure, post infarction angina and death [2]. Conventional echocardiographic indices that are routinely applied for the estimation of cardiac function face a number o...

Hemodynamicg, myocardial function, and regional myocardial blood flow (MBF) were measured during acute right ventricular (RV) pressure overload created by inflation of a previously implanted cuff to constrict the pulmonary artery trunk (PAC) in seven closed-chest, anesthetized calves during normoxia (Pad: 90-110 mm Hg) and hypoxia (PaOj ~ 40 mm Hg). MBF was determined by the microsphere method....

global myocardial ischemia and ischemia-reperfusion injury are potential adverse events related with cardioplegic arrest. beating heart surgery has avoided such complications and adapted to valve surgery following successful results published on myocardial revascularization. difficulty in weaning from cardiopulmonary bypass may be lessened by using on-pump beating heart surgery for mitral valve...

An improved method of noninvasive assessment of pulmonary arterial pressure is presented. The already existing radionuclide method for assessment of pulmonary arterial pressure based on right ventricular ejection fraction, although having a relatively good positive predictive accuracy (75 percent), lacks in specificity and correlates only weakly with pulmonary arterial pressure, r = .66. In the...

OBJECTIVE The diagnosis of right ventricular myocardial infarction (RVMI) accompanied by acute inferior myocardial infarction (MI) is still a problem that we encounter. This study was designed to find out the usefulness both of peak myocardial systolic velocity (Sm) and of the myocardial performance index (MPI) of the right ventricle measured by pulsed-wave tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) in asses...

BACKGROUND Obstructive sleep apnea is highly prevalent in patients with cardiovascular disease and has detrimental effects on systolic and diastolic function of the ventricles. In this research, the changes in strain (S) and strain rate (SR) during the performance of the Mueller maneuver (MM) in an effort to better understand how negative intrathoracic pressures affect ventricular mechanics. ...

AIM The aim of the study was to determine if the tissue Doppler imaging (TDI)-derived myocardial acceleration during isovolumic contraction (IVA) of tricuspid lateral annulus could be used in early detection of RV systolic dysfunction in patients with mitral stenosis (MS), before the clinical signs of systemic venous congestion occur. METHODS One hundred and twelve patients with rheumatic MS ...

The first aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between Doppler ultrasonographic parameters and biochemical markers of human fetal cardiac dysfunction and myocardial cell damage in pregnancies complicated by placental insufficiency and/or fetal growth restriction. Our second aim was to examine fetal central and peripheral hemodynamic characteristics associated with retrograde ao...