OBJECTIVES The study was done to evaluate reliability of echocardiographic left ventricular (LV) mass. BACKGROUND Echocardiographic estimation of LV mass is affected by several sources of variability. METHODS We assessed intrapatient reliability of LV mass measurements in 183 hypertensive patients (68% men, 65 +/- 9 years) enrolled in the Prospective Randomized Enalapril Study Evaluating Re...

We performed a prospective anatomic validation study to determine the accuracy of left ventricular (LV) mass estimates from clinical two-dimensional echocardiographic (2-D echo) studies. In 21 subjects, antemortem 2-D echo LV mass determinations were compared with anatomic LV weight by postmortem chamber dissection. Major cardiac diagnoses included anatomic LV aneurysm in four, status post aneu...

BACKGROUND Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) typically manifests during or after adolescence in sarcomere mutation carriers at risk for developing hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Guidelines recommend serial imaging of mutation carriers without LVH (G+/LVH-) to monitor for phenotypic evolution, but the optimal strategy is undefined. Compared with echocardiography (echo), cardiac MRI (CMR) offers i...

Nowadays, in the field of communications, AEC (acoustic echo cancellation) is truly essential with respect to the quality of multimedia transmission. In this paper, we designed and developed an efficient AEC based on adaptive filters to improve quality of service in telecommunications against the phenomena of acoustic echo, which is indeed a problem in hands-free communications. The main advant...

This paper describes an implementation of a long distance echo canceller which copes with double talking situations and exceeds the CCITT G.165 recommendation. The proposed solution is based on short length adaptive filters centered on the positions of the most significant echoes, which are tracked by time-delay estimators. To deal with double talking situations a speech detector is employed. T...

background: ovarian immature teratoma is a very rare type of tumor associated with a high relapse rate and mortality. correspondingly, early diagnosis is important for effective treatment. the goal of this study was to retrospectively analyze the ultrasound characteristics of 11 cases of immature teratomas. materials and methods: between january 2002 and december 2010, 11 patients were diagnose...