Background Abnormal cardiac stress imaging findings are not always associated with angiographically significant coronary artery disease. The outcomes of patients with such false-positive findings have not been extensively examined. The…
Background The aim of this study was to validate a novel real-time three-dimensional echocardiographic (RT3DE) analysis tool for the determination of right ventricular volumes and function in unselected adult patients….
In recent years, the importance of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction has been increasingly recognized, and the demand for a simple, noninvasive, bedside test for validating this diagnosis has…
Background The objective of this study was to test the feasibility, accuracy, and reproducibility of the assessment of right ventricular (RV) volumes and ejection fraction (EF) using real-time three-dimensional echocardiographic…
Background There are few data on adding left atrial volume index (LAVi) or pulmonary artery systolic pressure (PAP) to the ratio of early mitral inflow to mitral annular velocity (E/e′)…
Over the past decade, cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) has changed the treatment of patients with end-stage heart failure. Currently, on the basis of the guidelines of the American Heart Association,…
This article reviews the main clinical aspects of patent foramen ovale (PFO), such as its prevalence in the population, the diagnostic techniques to detect its presence, its role as a…
Background The quantification of right ventricular (RV) size and function is of diagnostic and prognostic importance. Recently, new software for the analysis of RV geometry using three-dimensional (3D) echocardiographic images…
It is well known that the evaluation of right ventricular (RV) volume and function by two-dimensional echocardiography has long been hampered by the complex three-dimensional (3D) shape of this chamber,…
Background The aim of this study was to assess speckle tracking–derived fetal cardiac function in a normal population and in recipient fetuses of twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS). Methods A case-control…
