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Author(s):
Gurpreet K Singh
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Victoria Delgado
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1 year ago
Author(s):
Sebastiaan A Kleijn
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Mohamed FA Aly
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Otto Kamp
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3 years ago
Global and regional left ventricular (LV) function are two of the most common echocardiographic evaluations in daily clinical practice and are essential for the clinical management of patients with various cardiovascular diseases. Global chamber indices such as LV volumes and ejection fraction are used for determining prognosis of patients with ischaemic heart disease, as well as when to plan…
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Author(s):
Peter P Swoboda
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Adam K McDiarmid
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Stephen P Page
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3 years ago
Inherited cardiomyopathies are primary disorders of the heart muscle that have a genetic basis. On long-term follow-up they are associated with adverse outcomes, particularly sudden death, arrhythmia and heart failure.1 The diagnosis is made on the basis of clinical, cardiac imaging (primarily with transthoracic echocardiography) and genetic features,2 ideally by a tertiary inherited cardiac…
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Author(s):
Federico M Asch
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2 years ago
Dr Federico M Asch (MedStar Health Research Institute, Georgetown University, WA, US) discusses the results of a study comparing human vs machine learning-based echocardiography analysis applied as a predictor of outcomes in acute Covid-19 patients.
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1. What are the benefits of the machine learning approach in echocardiography analysis?
2. What is the WASE COVID Study?
3. What was the…
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Author(s):
Bruno Passaretti
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Paolo Sganzerla
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Elena Lucca
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et al
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3 years ago
The presence of electrical dyssynchrony (which following an electrocardiogram can be visualised as a left bundle branch block [LBBB]) is an indication for biventricular pacing if it is associated with systolic dysfunction (ejection fraction [EF] <35%) and dyspnoea in New York Heart Association (NYHA) class II–IV. In the great majority of patients, biventricular pacing determines a significant…
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Author(s):
Prabhakar Rajiah
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Milind Y Desai
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3 years ago
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has become an important non-invasive imaging modality in the evaluation of cardiovascular diseases because of advances in scanner hardware, coil technology, parallel-imaging techniques and MRI sequences, all of which facilitate the rapid acquisition of high-quality images. Several scientific studies validated the use of MRI in cardiovascular diseases and showed…
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Author(s):
Tarun Pandey
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Kedar Jambhekar
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3 years ago
Diastolic dysfunction and diastolic heart failure (DHF) have shown a steady increase in prevalence over the course of the last decade.1 DHF is now regarded as a major public health concern. It shows an increasing trend with age and exceeds the incidence rate of systolic heart failure by the eighth decade of life.2 In fact, it is estimated that approximately 25–30% of individuals 45 years of age…
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Anatomy of the Left Atrium and Pulmonary Veins - Lessons Learned from Novel Imaging Techniques
Author(s):
Josef Kautzner
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Hanka Micochova
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Petr Peichl
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3 years ago
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Author(s):
Sophie Mavrogeni
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George Markousis-Mavrogenis
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Genovefa Kolovou
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3 years ago
Systemic means ‘pertaining to or affecting the whole body’ as opposed to a localised condition. A systemic disease is one that affects a number of organs and tissues, or the body as a whole. Systemic diseases, according to WHO classification,1 and cardiac diseases that developed during their course, are listed in Table 1.
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Thyroid diseases, pheochromocytoma and growth hormone…
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Author(s):
Maxime Teisseire
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Jérôme Caudron
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Jean-Nicolas Dacher
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3 years ago
In patients with severe aortic stenosis (aortic valve area <1cm2 or <0.6cm2/m2) and high surgical risk (haemodynamic instability or significant co-morbidities), surgical aortic valve replacement is often rejected and, unfortunately, balloon valvuloplasty cannot provide a sustained improvement. Percutaneous heart valve (PHV) implantation is an excellent alternative treatment in such cases…
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