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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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Marfan syndrome (MFS) is a disease in which connective tissue becomes weak secondary to fibrillin-1 mutations, resulting in aortic dilatation, aneurysm formation, aortic dissection, aortic regurgitation and mitral valve prolapse (MVP; see Table 1).
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MFS is an autosomal dominant condition: 75 % of all patients inherit the condition from one affected parent and 25 % are affected as…
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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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Wall motion tracking is an application of pattern-matching ultrasound commonly known as speckle-tracking echocardiography (STE). STE involves creating a template image using a local myocardial region in the starting frame of the image data. In the ensuing frame, an algorithm searches for the local speckle pattern that most closely matches the template. A movement vector is then created using the…
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Several imaging techniques (such as ultrasounds, computed tomography [CT] scan, magnetic resonance imaging [MRI], positron emission tomography [PET] scan, etc.) can provide interesting information on subclinical atherosclerosis and plaque stability. In fact sonographic imaging techniques can be very useful in this field. All of them have their limitations, but each of them has its own…
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Sleep-disordered Breathing and Heart Failure - Insights from Speckle Tracking Echocardiography
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Dr Luigi Di Biase (Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, US) joins us on-site at EHRA 2022 for a short interview on the latest updates in the precision medicine approach to atrial fibrillation. Dr Di Biase outlines the use of a precision medicine approach to post-ablation occurrences in patients with atrial fibrillation, and provides advice for clinicians.
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