Background Changes in mitral valve geometry in patients with significant aortic regurgitation (AR) have not been evaluated. The aim of the present study was to assess the prevalence of significant…
Background Cellular rejection after cardiac transplantation is treatable with timely diagnosis. Because noninvasive methods for diagnosis are limited, surveillance endomyocardial biopsies are routinely performed in the first year after transplantation….
Background The evaluation of the submitral apparatus is challenging from the conventional transesophageal approach. The aim of this study was to test the feasibility of using three-dimensional (3D) transesophageal echocardiographic…
Background Determinants of paravalvular regurgitation after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) remain unclear. The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of aortic valve calcification (AVC) on paravalvular…
I read with interest the article “Exercise Echocardiography Demonstrates Biventricular Systolic Dysfunction and Reveals Decreased Left Ventricular Contractile Reserve in Children after Tetralogy of Fallot Repair” by Roche et al ….
Background Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is an alternative therapy for high-risk patients with symptomatic aortic stenosis. TAVI without balloon aortic predilation (BPD) has been found to be as feasible…
Background Aortic valve calcification (AVC) without stenosis is common in the elderly, is associated with cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, and may progress to aortic valve stenosis. Arterial stiffness and pulse-wave…
Background With the advent of three-dimensional (3D) printers and high-resolution cardiac imaging, rapid prototype constructions of congenital cardiac defects are now possible. Typically, source images for these models derive from…
Background There is significant disparity in the reported incidence of moderate and severe paravalvular aortic regurgitation (PAR) between the Placement of Aortic Transcatheter Valves (PARTNER) I and PARTNER II trials,…
“If I could touch anything in the world right now, it would be your heart. I want to take that piece of you and keep it with me.” The technology…
