AIMS To determine the feasibility of strain rate imaging (SRI) in the objective detection of exercise-induced ischaemia. METHODS AND RESULTS Sixteen patients undergoing elective percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) underwent treadmill exercise stress echocardiography (ESE) pre- and post-PCI. Measurement of systolic SRI parameters was attempted in all myocardial segments at baseline, peak ...

OBJECTIVES TO COMPARE TWO MEASURES OF SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS (SLE) RESPONSE: the British Isles Lupus Assessment Group (BILAG)-based Composite Lupus Assessment (BICLA) and the Systemic Lupus Responder Index (SRI) against a clinician's assessment of improvement. METHODS Ninety-one lupus patients were identified with two visits at which Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Disease Activity Index (...

BACKGROUND Strain rate (SR) imaging (SRI) is a tissue Doppler-based method of regional myocardial deformation imaging. The aim of this study was to see whether SRI could quantify changes in myocardial mechanical function after an acute myocardial infarction, and to follow the time course of these changes. METHODS In all, 26 consecutive patients with first-time acute myocardial infarctions wer...

Supun D Wijesinghe 1* and Dulitha N Fernando 2 1 Consultant Community Physician, Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka 2 Emeritus Professor of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Corresponding author : Supun D Wijesinghe Abstract Maternal perception of antenatal care quality is an important attribute in understanding the relationship between quality and utilizatio...

the aim of this study was to explore the associations between occupational stress measured through job demand control (jdc), and burnout among lawyers in sri lanka. the job demand-control model and the burnout model are among the most used theoretical frameworks that relate job characteristics to health and well-being of individuals. this study included 290 respondent lawyers practicing in the ...

BACKGROUND Interpretation of dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE) is subjective and strongly dependent on the skills of the reader. Strain-rate imaging (SRI) by tissue Doppler may objectively analyze regional myocardial function. This study investigated SRI markers of stress-induced ischemia and analyzed their applicability in a clinical setting. METHODS AND RESULTS DSE was performed in 4...

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