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Mashup Score: 57Obstruction in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Many Faces - 4 day(s) ago
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), the most common inherited cardiomyopathy, exhibits left ventricular hypertrophy not secondary to other causes, with varied phenotypic expression. Enhanced actin-myosin interaction underlies excessive myocardial contraction, frequently resulting in dynamic obstruction within the left ventricle. Left ventricular outflow tract obstruction, occurring at rest or with provocation in 75% of HCM patients, portends adverse prognosis, contributes to symptoms, and is frequently a therapeutic target.
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Mashup Score: 2Radiation Exposure to the Interventional Echocardiographers and Sonographers: A Call to Action - 2 month(s) ago
Interventional echocardiography is a rapidly growing field with the disciplines of cardiology and anesthesiology, with the rise of advanced transcatheter procedures making skilled imagers more important than ever. However, these procedures also involve frequent manipulation of the transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) probe, which means interventional echocardiographers (IE) are at risk of long-term occupational radiation exposure. Studies have shown that radiation exposure is linked to various health issues, including cancer, cataracts, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, endothelial dysfunction, vascular aging, and early atherosclerosis.
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Mashup Score: 78RIGHT ATRIAL REMODELING AND OUTCOME IN PATIENTS WITH SECONDARY TRICUSPID REGURGITATION - 4 month(s) ago
In patients with secondary tricuspid regurgitation (STR), right atrial remodeling (RAR) is a proven marker of disease progression. However, the prognostic value of RAR, assessed by indexed RA volume (RAVi) and reservoir strain (RAS) remains to be clarified. Accordingly, the aim of our study is to investigate the association with outcome of RAR in patients with STR.
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In patients with significant cardiac valvular disease, intervention with either valve repair or valve replacement may be inevitable. Although valve repair is frequently performed, especially for mitral and tricuspid regurgitation, valve replacement remains common, particularly in adults. Diagnostic methods are often needed to assess the function of the prosthesis. Echocardiography is the first-line method for noninvasive evaluation of prosthetic valve function. The transthoracic approach is complemented with two-dimensional and three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography for further refinement of valve morphology and function when needed.
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In patients with significant cardiac valvular disease, intervention with either valve repair or valve replacement may be inevitable. Although valve repair is frequently performed, especially for mitral and tricuspid regurgitation, valve replacement remains common, particularly in adults. Diagnostic methods are often needed to assess the function of the prosthesis. Echocardiography is the first-line method for noninvasive evaluation of prosthetic valve function. The transthoracic approach is complemented with two-dimensional and three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography for further refinement of valve morphology and function when needed.
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Mashup Score: 0Multimodality Imaging for Cardiac Surveillance of Cancer Treatment in Children: Recommendations From the American Society of Echocardiography - 5 month(s) ago
Guidelines for using noninvasive imaging techniques to monitor cardiac function in adults undergoing cancer treatment are available.1,2 Children with cancer, however, require a different imaging approach. Screening and detection strategies in younger children have largely relied on longitudinal monitoring of echocardiographic measures of left ventricle (LV) systolic function, mainly fractional shortening (FS) and ejection fraction (EF). Despite the important role of echocardiography in the follow-up of this patient group, a recent multicenter study indicated that the overall quality of routine pediatric echocardiograms for childhood cancer survivors was not sufficient to reliably assess LV function.
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Mashup Score: 43Clinical Value of a Novel Three-Dimensional Echocardiography–Derived Index of Right Ventricle–Pulmonary Artery Coupling in Tricuspid Regurgitation - 5 month(s) ago
Echocardiographic surrogates of right ventricle–to–pulmonary artery (RV-PA) coupling have been reported to be associated with outcomes in patients with secondary tricuspid regurgitation (STR). However, pulmonary artery systolic pressure (PASP) is difficult to estimate using echocardiography in patients with severe STR. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the predictive power of a surrogate of RV-PA coupling obtained using right ventricular (RV) volumes measured on three-dimensional echocardiography.
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Mashup Score: 75Echocardiographic Versus Invasive Aortic Valve Gradients in Different Clinical Scenarios - 5 month(s) ago
The role of echocardiography in deriving transvalvular mean gradients from transaortic velocities in aortic stenosis (AS) and in structural valve degeneration (SVD) is well established. However, reports following surgical aortic valve replacement, post–transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), and valve-in-valve-TAVR (ViV-TAVR) have cautioned against the use of echocardiography-derived mean gradients to assess normal functioning bioprosthesis due to discrepancy compared with invasive measures in a phenomenon called discordance.
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Mashup Score: 18Prognostic Signals From Moderate Valve Disease in Big Data: An Artefact of Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine Structured Reporting? - 5 month(s) ago
Recent studies have identified an association between moderate aortic stenosis (AS) and outcome. We assessed whether Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) structured reporting (SR), which captures and inserts echocardiographic measurements and text data directly into radiological reports, may lead to misclassifying patients with severe AS as moderate.
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#BigData Digital Imaging & Communications in Medicine DICOM structured reporting captures Nonpeak AS #data & inserts these directly into #echofirst reports, Misclassifying patients with severe AS as moderate https://t.co/6Fhb7LjXLK Need #data curation to ensure only peak… https://t.co/rd6rLgHuHK https://t.co/gFAn14fw0M
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Mashup Score: 1Comparing Costs of Non-invasive Cardiac Diagnostic Tests – a Population-based Study - 6 month(s) ago
Non-invasive cardiac diagnostic tests for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease (NIT) have been estimated to cost > $3 billion annually in the United States alone and have undergone recent scrutiny over concerns of overuse. Consequently, comparing costs of different NIT testing strategies is of urgent importance to healthcare planning.
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PHENOMENAL piece on hypertrophic cardiomyopathy Really great images with doppler which can be tough to differentiate, especially early in #CardioTwitter and #MedEd training https://t.co/gtK0dyWfk0 https://t.co/aH0CYuYN5g