Weiss, Roy E., Claudia Korcarz, Olivier Chassande, Kevin Cua, Peter M. Sadow, Eugene Koo, Jacques Samarut, and Roberto Lang. Thyroid hormone and cardiac function in mice deficient in thyroid hormone receptoror : an echocardiograph study. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 283: E428–E435, 2002; 10.1152/ajpendo.00019. 2002.—We investigated the effect of thyroid hormone (TH) receptor (TR) and isoforms ...

OBJECTIVES To describe pulmonary venous flow patterns using transthoracic echocardiograms on children suffering from different congenital heart defects with increased pulmonary flow. METHODS Prospective study and consecutive selection of children suffering from congenital heart defects with increased pulmonary flow. The transthoracic, apical view, Doppler echocardiogram was used, positioning ...

Cardiac disease in adult female carriers of the X-linked dystrophinopathies, Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies, is a well-recognised entity. A single study has reported a 15% incidence of cardiac abnormalities in female carriers under 16 years. Our study aims, clinically and with electrocardiograph and echocardiograph, to determine the incidence of cardiac abnormality in young girls who ...

Myxomas are rarely associated with congenital cardiac anomalies. We report a case of a young female presenting with symptoms of atrial myxoma but having co-existing ASD visualized on 64 slice multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) prior to cardiac surgery. Patient had a successful resection of biatrial myxoma and ASD repair. This case is unique as the myxoma originated from the inferior margi...

We report a case of a 21 year old married woman diagnosed to have severe hypertrophic cardiomyopathy at 12 weeks of gestation by echocardiograph at Lata Mangeshkar Hospital, Nagpur on 12th June, 2012. Her mother's and maternal uncle's sudden death at young age along with severe form of disease brought a lot of apprehension in the beginning considering the possible catastrophic effect of hemodyn...

In complex, data-based prediction problems, such as medical diagnosis, the Elman Neural Net (ENN) has been applied for the automated detection of various diseases, such as mitral valve stenosis. This paper discusses the design and implementation of an automated classification system for heart diseases, based on ultrasonic devices. M-mode class images are applied to classify the degree of stenos...

BACKGROUND Signs and symptoms of infectious endocarditis are protean. They result from destruction of cardiac endothelium, metastatic embolization, hematogenous seeding, and immune complex deposition. Embolic manifestations of infectious endocarditis can mimic several other pathologic conditions and make the diagnosis of infectious endocarditis difficult. METHODS We describe a case of cutaneo...

This study assessed physiological and cardiac factors associated with 10-km running performance in a group of highly trained endurance runners age 21–63 years. Participants (N = 37) underwent a resting echocardiograph and incremental treadmill running test. They also provided information on their recent 10-km races. Data were analyzed using “best subsets” multiple regression. Declines with age ...

BACKGROUND Low-dose dobutamine stress echocardiography is specific for predicting reversible contractility dysfunction, but its sensitivity is lower than ideal. OBJECTIVE We sought to explore the predictors of myocardial contractile recovery following revascularization, in patients with no viability by low-dose dobutamine stress echocardiography. METHODS We prospectively enrolled 30 consecu...

BACKGROUND Contrast transcranial Doppler (c-TCD) has a high sensitivity for detecting right-to-left shunt (RLS), and is probably higher than transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) and comparable with transesophageal echocardiography (TEE). OBJECTIVE To evaluate the accuracy of echocardiography (TTE and TEE) to detect RLS compared to c-TCD. MATERIAL AND METHODS Observational study of patients ...