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Jose Luis Zamorano
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3 years ago
Heart failure (HF) is a growing and increasingly important chronic disease of the Western world, occurring in at least 2% of the adult population and rising to 3% in those aged over 75 years. It is characterised by inadequate systemic perfusion due to impairment of the cardiac pump function. Clinical HF is a progressive condition, typically with high morbidity and mortality rates. It therefore…
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Mark J Monaghan
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3 years ago
Stress echocardiography is a widely used clinical technique that provides invaluable information in patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease (CAD). Common applications of stress echo include the diagnosis of reversible ischemia, myocardial viability, and establishing the functional significance of known coronary lesions. Stress echo has been shown to have similar sensitivity and…
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Michael H Picard
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3 years ago
Non-invasive imaging of the heart continues to evolve and improve. Cardiovascular ultrasound (echocardiography) continues to play an important role in the diagnosis and assessment of responses to therapy of many cardiac conditions. Even as the clinical applications of newer techniques such as cardiac computed tomography (CT) and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMRI) increase, the role of…
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Author(s):
Jose Luis Zamorano
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3 years ago
Heart failure (HF) is a growing and increasingly important chronic disease of the Western world, occurring in at least 2% of the adult population and rising to 3% in those aged over 75 years.1 It is characterised by inadequate systemic perfusion due to impairment of the cardiac pump function. Clinical HF is a progressive condition, typically with high morbidity and mortality rates. It therefore…
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Author(s):
Brage H Amundsen
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Anders Thorstensen
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Asbjørn Støylen
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3 years ago
Cardiovascular imaging is a rapidly growing area, where technological development combined with clinicians’ demand for optimal visualisation of the heart might lead us to a situation where costs are high and evidence is sparse. Applying the correct imaging modality is thus an important task in clinical practice. The aim of this article is to discuss the present and future potential of deformation…
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Sleep-disordered Breathing and Heart Failure - Insights from Speckle Tracking Echocardiography
Author(s):
Masaaki Takeuchi
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Nobuhiko Haruki
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Yutaka Otsuji
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3 years ago
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Federico M Asch
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Author(s):
Thomas A Foley
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Sunil V Mankad
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Nandan S Anavekar
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et al
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12 years ago
Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) is one of the most commonly reported measures of left ventricular (LV) systolic function. It is the ratio of blood ejected during systole (stroke volume) to blood in the ventricle at the end of diastole (end-diastolic volume). If the LV end-diastolic volume (EDV) and end-systolic volume (ESV) are known, LVEF can be determined using the following equation:…
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Author(s):
Eric Larose
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Olivier F Bertrand
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3 years ago
Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) has found widespread use as an important tool in the cardiologists' armamentarium for several years now, mainly because of superior diagnostic accuracy and ability to perform complete anatomical and functional assessment in a single study without ionising radiation. The following will summarise specific uses of CMR for the interventional cardiologist.
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Sahar S Abdelmoneim
Job title: MD, MSc, MS
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