Introduction .– The evaluation of the prognosis of patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is an essential step in their care. Doppler echocardiography is a noninvasive, reliable and available method for…
Background .– A well-known side effect of anthracycline’s chemotherapy is cardiotoxicity. It consists in developing a dose-dependent cardiomyopathy with an incidence ranging from 2 to 20%. Assessment of biohumoral markers…
Introduction .– The prevalence of heart failure and diabetes are both increasing: 25 to 30% of patients with heart failure suffer from diabetes. Diabetics have more diastolic dysfunction because accumulation…
Purpose .– Epidemiological studies show a strong correlation between diabetes mellitus (DM) and heart failure. DM may result in cardiac and structural abnormalities (diabetic cardiomyopathy) before symptoms onset. The diagnosis…
Objective .– Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) has been associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. The aim of this study is to assess left ventricular (LV) function in asymptomatic…
Hypocalcemia is a very rare cause of dilated cardiomyopathy with alteration more or less of the contractile function of left ventricle (LV). It is complicated rarely with heart failure. We…
Introduction .– Real-time transesophageal echocardiography (RT3D TEE) is a recent imaging modality which has been validated against magnetic resonance imaging for the measurement of left ventricular (LV) volumes. If feasibility…
Background .– Acute increase in right ventricular overload secondary to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) may result in acute cor pulmonale (ACP). Hypoxemia could be worsened by the increased right-to-left…
Objective .– To test the hypothesis that bedside assessment of LVEF in ICU patients is accurate when performed using a new generation ultrasound stethoscope, thereby improving the clinical judgement of…
Background .– Speckle analysis of 3D echocardiography improves information on LV segmental and global deformation by avoiding loss of speckles as it is the case in monoplane 2D speckle analysis….
