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 …

From the* Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Phoenix, AZ; and† University of Maryland
School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. Address reprint requests to Christopher A. Thunberg …

Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) is an important tool for diagnosis and follow-up of
patients with congenital heart disease (CHD). Appropriate use of TTE can reduce the need …

The presence of vortical flow structures that develop inside different cardiac chambers is
shown to correlate with functional status of heart, and significantly affects the cardiac …

Background Isovolumetric acceleration (IVA) is a novel tissue Doppler parameter for the
assessment of systolic function. The aim of this study was to evaluate IVA as an early …

Objectives: We investigated right ventricular (RV) structural and functional cardiac
alterations in obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) independent of systemic hypertension and their …

The application of tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) has shown remarkable growth in clinical
practice during the past few years, especially, in risk stratification of patients with coronary …

Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) is the first‐line tool for diagnosis and followup of
pediatric and young adult patients with congenital heart disease (CHD). Appropriate use of …

A method for treating pulmonary arterial hypertension in a patient can include determining
whether a patient with pulmonary arterial hypertension has an enlarged right ventricle or …

Right ventricular (RV) function is a strong independent predictor of outcome in a number of
distinct cardiopulmonary diseases. The RV has a remarkable ability to sustain damage and …