Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is established in clinical practice for the
diagnosis and management of diseases of the cardiovascular system. However, current …

The writing group was chosen from the membership of the International Society for Heart
and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT), the Association of European Pediatric and Congenital …

Pulmonary hypertension is associated with diverse cardiac, pulmonary, and systemic
diseases in neonates, infants, and older children and contributes to significant morbidity and …

Guidelines for the Echocardiographic Assessment of the Right Heart in Adults: A Report
from the American Society of Echocardiography - Journal of the American Society of …

Echocardiographic quantification is crucial in the diagnosis and management of patients
with acquired and congenital heart disease (CHD). The American Society of …

Background The Norwood procedure with a modified Blalock–Taussig (MBT) shunt, the first
palliative stage for single-ventricle lesions with systemic outflow obstruction, is associated …

Echocardiographic assessment of right ventricular function remains difficult and challenging.
However, there is considerable clinical need for a simple, reproducible, and reliable …

Advances in the diagnosis and management of congenital heart disease (CHD) have led to
a marked improvement in the survival of patients with tetralogy of Fallot (TOF). However …

Aims Rapid, accurate, and widely available non-invasive evaluation of right ventricular
function still presents a problem. The purpose of the study was to determine whether the …

Echocardiography is a reliable and reproducible method to assess non-invasively cardiac
function in clinical and experimental research. Significant progress in the development of …