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The diagnosis of infective endocarditis has been notoriously difficult. Over the last decade, the modified Duke criteria have assumed an increasingly important role in the early detection of this often occult disease. Echocardiography has assumed increasing importance. Transesophageal echocardiography is recognized as more sensitive and specific than transthoracic echocardiography at detecting ...

BACKGROUND Spatial orientation of left ventricular (LV) apical segments is a potential limitation to assessment by tissue Doppler echocardiography (TDE). Speckle tracking echocardiography (STE) is a recently developed quantification technique and has the advantage of being angle-independent as compared to TDE. AIM To assess matching apical segments' longitudinal strain data from TDE and STE. ...

Hypercapnia has been shown in animal experiments to induce pulmonary hypertension. This study measured the sensitivity and time course of the human pulmonary vascular response to sustained (4 h) hypercapnia and hypocapnia. Twelve volunteers undertook three protocols: 1) 4-h euoxic (end-tidal Po(2) = 100 Torr) hypercapnia (end-tidal Pco(2) was 10 Torr above normal), followed by 2 h of recovery w...

A case report where the diagnosis of pacemaker syndrome was made using simply suprahepatic vein, pulsed Doppler echocardiography. To the knowledge of the authors, this method is currently unpublished.

Methods A total of 43 consecutive patients (age 44 10 years) with moderate to severe PVS referred to Royal Brompton Hospital from 2002 to 2005 were retrospectively studied. Patient New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional class was recorded. The RV (lateral tricuspid annulus motion) long-axis movement was measured by M-mode and pulsed-wave (PW) tissue Doppler imaging (TDI). Restrictive RV p...

Background Quantification of right ventricular (RV) volumes is challenging, particularly in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) who often have dilated and dysfunctional RVs. Several studies have shown that cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) and 3-dimensional echocardiography (3DE) provide very reliable measurements of RV volumes when performed by experienced observers; however, li...

During the last few decades, the continued growth and expansion of stress echocardiography in daily clinical practice has led to the search and development of new and more quantitative technologies in an attempt to reduce the subjectivity of wall motion analysis by conventional visual method. (1) The evaluation of coronary flow reserve by Doppler echocardiography and myocardial deformation para...

BACKGROUND Multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) has been demonstrated as a feasible imaging modality for noninvasive assessment of coronary artery disease and left ventricular (LV) function. Recently, 320-row systems have become available with 16 cm anatomical coverage allowing image acquisition of the entire heart within a single heartbeat. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the acc...