BACKGROUND We describe a method for 3-/4D reconstruction of tissue Doppler data from three standard apical planes, post processing to derived data of strain rate/strain and parametric colour imaging of the data. The data can be displayed as M-mode arrays from all six walls, Bull's eye projection and a 3D surface figure that can be scrolled and rotated. Numerical data and waveforms can be re-ext...

G ALIO)1P rhythmi rel)esellts one of the minost important but still veryconfused aspeets of elinical auscultation of the heart. Most gallop rhythms are uinre(ogniized or misillterprete(l. This is unfortunate because a gallop, depending on the type, often represents the earliest elinieal evideiiee of (ongI.tive heart failure. After anialyzing the varloiis (lassifieatiolns of gallops1-21 we hve u...

Normal auscultatory findings were studied during a heart survey in which 12 050 Black schoolchildren, aged 2 to 18 years, were examined by cardiologists. Physiological third heart sounds were detected in 96 per cent of children, innocent systolic murmurs in 72 per cent, and innocent mid-diastolic murmurs in 0.27 per cent. The term 'innocent systolic murmur" was used for vibratory systolic murmu...

AIMS Off-line post-processing of colour tissue Doppler from digital loops may allow objective quantification of dobutamine stress echocardiography. We assessed the reproducibility of off-line measurements of regional myocardial velocities. METHODS AND RESULTS Nine observers analysed 10 studies, each making 2400 observations. Coefficients of variation in basal segments from apical windows, at ...

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Results RV function measured by CMR was negatively correlated with peak systolic strain of mid RV free wall (P=0.038, Pearson r=-0.357) and also negatively correlated to both mean of strain (P=0.028, Pearson r=-0.376) and SR (P=0.035, Spearman’s rho=-0.362) of basal , mid and apical segments of RV. Conclusions Overall, in the assessment of RV function , echocardiographic measurement of strain a...

The 12-year-old patient stated that she had been completely well until five months before her visit to this Clinic on January 29, 1963. At that time her ankle and elbow joints had become painful and swollen. A few days later she developed sudden severe precordial pain which lasted about 12 hours and was associated with sweating and breathlessness. She was admitted to another hospital where her ...