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Author(s): Florim Cuculi , Michel Zuber , Paul Erne Added: 3 years ago
The introduction of tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) strain was a great achievement in echocardiography and for the first time allowed true quantification of regional myocardial function. The central problem with this technique was the angle dependence and the unfavourable signal-to-noise ratio, which has been partially overcome with 2D speckle tracking. Figures 1 and 2 demonstrate application of… View more

Imaging & Diagnostics
Author(s): John G Coghlan , Denis Pellerin Added: 3 years ago
Goals in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Treatment Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) arises from pathological thickening, obstruction and constriction of the pulmonary arterioles.1 This leads to progressive elevation of pulmonary pressures initially on exertion, then at rest.2 Symptoms present late, often only when the pressures can rise little further and the cardiac output (CO) falls due… View more

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Prevention & Chronic Conditions
Author(s): Brage H Amundsen , Anders Thorstensen , Asbjørn Støylen Added: 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… View more

Imaging & Diagnostics
Author(s): Hans Joachim Nesser Added: 3 years ago
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… View more

Imaging & Diagnostics

Heart Failure
Author(s): Masaaki Takeuchi , Nobuhiko Haruki , Yutaka Otsuji Added: 3 years ago
More than half of the patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) have associated sleep-disordered breathing (SDB), which consists of either obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) or central sleep apnoea (CSA).1,2 SDB has deleterious effects on systolic and diastolic ventricular function. In patients with CHF, the presence of SDB results in a poorer prognosis;3,4 thus, its early recognition and adequate… View more

Imaging & Diagnostics

Heart Failure
Author(s): John G Coghlan , Denis Pellerin Added: 3 years ago
Goals in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Treatment Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) arises from pathological thickening, obstruction and constriction of the pulmonary arterioles.1 This leads to progressive elevation of pulmonary pressures initially on exertion, then at rest.2 Symptoms present late, often only when the pressures can rise little further and the cardiac output (CO) falls due… View more

Vascular Disease and Surgery

Imaging & Diagnostics
Author(s): Sebastiaan A Kleijn , Mohamed FA Aly , Otto Kamp Added: 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… View more

Imaging & Diagnostics
ESC Congress 2022 Imaging Highlights
Author(s): Valentina O Puntmann , Silvia Valbuena-López Added: 1 year ago

Imaging & Diagnostics

COVID-19
Job title: Professor of Cardiology Northwestern University Chicago, IL, USA
Prof James D Thomas is a Director of the Center for Heart Valve Disease at Northwestern University in Chicago. Prof James D Thomas is the past president of the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE), currently co-chairing a committee to standardise strain echocardiography. View more
Prof Jens-Uwe Voigt is staff cardiologist and appointed professor at the University of Leuven, Belgium, leading the echocardiography lab of the University Hospitals and an imaging research group with several international fellows and PhD students. Prof Jens-Uwe Voigt has been actively involved in the Board of the EACVI as chair and committee member and was active in the ASE-EACVI-Task Force for… View more