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Realtime Three-dimensional Echocardiography - A New Diagnostic Tool for Mitral Valve Assessment
Author(s):
Jose Luis Zamorano
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Leopoldo Pérez
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3 years ago
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Author(s):
Sana Amraoui
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Ghoufrane Tlili
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Elif Hindié
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et al
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3 years ago
With ageing of the general population and broadening indications, the number of pacemaker recipients is steadily increasing. The incidence of cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) infection, a dreaded major complication, is also rising.1 The diagnosis is based on the presence of an abscessed pocket, cutaneous breakthrough of the pulse generator or vegetations attached to the pacemaker lead…
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Isabella Tan
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Author(s):
Maria Chiara Scali
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Doralisa Morrone
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Mario Marzilli
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3 years ago
As coronary angiography is of limited value in defining the functional significance of a stenosis, the timely article by Balanescu in this issue of European Cardiology Review rationally proposes to integrate the anatomic information with a functional assessment, either by measuring coronary flow reserve (CFR) or intracoronary artery pressure with fractional flow reserve (FFR). CFR measurements…
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Author(s):
Fausto J Pinto
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3 years ago
Echocardiography is the most widely used non-invasive imaging method in cardiology worldwide. Several reasons justify its success, the most important being its ability to answer easily and repeatedly the pertinent clinical questions posed every day by clinicians about their patients. In addition, it has accommodated itself to the continuous technological and scientific developments of the last…
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Author(s):
Robert Dalla Pozza
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Susanne Bechtold
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3 years ago
Atherosclerosis and atherosclerosis-related complications such as coronary, cerebrovascular and peripheral arterial disease show their clinical manifestation in adulthood. However, changes at the endothelial level do not occur suddenly in the elderly, but are the result of a long, on-going, slowly evolving process. We know from autopsy studies that atherosclerotic processes begin in childhood and…
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Author(s):
Adrian Chenzbraun
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3 years ago
In the developed world, aortic stenosis (AS) represents the most prevalent valvular heart disease. The final stage of AS is transformation of the aortic valve in a severely restricted, thickened, calcific valve; however, the initiating process is less likely to be a degenerative one, but rather similar to atherosclerotic plaque formation. The process is age-dependent: more than 25% of individuals…
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B-type Natriuretic Peptides in the Management of Acute Heart Failure and Acute Coronary Syndromes
Author(s):
Torbjørn Omland
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3 years ago
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Author(s):
Jean-Paul Albenque
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Arnaud Chaumeil
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Stephane Combes
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et al
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3 years ago
In the setting of persistent atrial fibrillation (AF), the current ablation strategy combines pulmonary vein (PV) isolation and substrate modulation. Substrate modulation can be performed either by linear lesion deployment or by complex fractionated atrial electrogram (CFE) elimination. These two substrate modulation methods can be either exclusive or complementary. However, although the…
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