Background Assessment of left ventricular rotational mechanics and myocardial deformation may provide new insight into both systolic and diastolic function. However, the effects of increasing afterload on these measures of…
Background The Pediatric Heart Network is conducting a large international randomized trial to compare aortic root growth and other cardiovascular outcomes in 608 subjects with Marfan syndrome randomized to receive…
Background The measurement of carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) is a valid method to quantify levels of atherosclerosis. The present study was conducted to compare the strengths of associations between CIMT…
Background Parameters describing intraventricular time differences are increasingly assessed in both adults and children. However, to appreciate the implications of these parameters in children, knowledge of the applicability of adult…
Background Recent European Association of Echocardiography and American Society of Echocardiography guidelines on three-dimensional echocardiography state that normal values of left ventricular (LV) parameters for age and body size remain…
Background The aortic and mitral valves are anatomically linked through a fibrous continuity. The investigators hypothesized that severe aortic stenosis (AS) would alter this fibrous continuity, affecting both the mitral…
Background Pocket-sized echocardiography may serve as an initial tool to screen for aortic stenosis (AS). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of a novel and simple method…
Background Bicuspid aortic valves (BAVs) are associated with aortopathy. Recent studies suggest that aortic dilatation is more likely to be seen with left-right coronary cusp fusion (type I) compared with…
The interaction of the aortic and mitral valves has been of particular interest to cardiologists and cardiac surgeons for decades, not only because of the impact that the pathophysiologic condition…
Left ventricular (LV) false tendons are chordlike structures that traverse the LV cavity. They attach to the septum, to the papillary muscles, or to the free wall of the ventricle…
