Health professionals are encouraged to take the ESC/EACTS Guidelines fully into account
when exercising their clinical judgment, as well as in the determination and the …

731 F. Beyersdorf and A. Vahanian et al./European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
guidelines, which is freely available via the ESC and EACTS website and hosted on the EHJ …

Aims Cardiac damage in severe aortic stenosis (AS) can be classified according to a
recently proposed staging classification. The present study investigated the incremental …

Conventional echocardiographic assessment may overestimate the left ventricular (LV)
function in mitral regurgitation (MR). LV global longitudinal strain (GLS) is more sensitive …

Background: Isolated tricuspid regurgitation (TR) remains a management dilemma with poor
outcomes. Echocardiography and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) are valuable …

Background Left atrial (LA) size is a marker of disease severity and is related to worse
outcomes in secondary mitral regurgitation (MR). The prognostic value of LA function …

Background Functional mitral regurgitation induces adverse effects on the left ventricle and
the left atrium. Left atrial (LA) dilatation and reduced LA strain are associated with poor …

Background Left ventricular (LV) global longitudinal strain (GLS) is a sensitive marker of LV
function and may help identify patients with heart failure (HF) and secondary mitral …

Background: Assessment of left ventricular (LV) function in patients with secondary mitral
regurgitation (SMR) remains challenging but is an important parameter for risk stratification …

The inability of one of the two or both ventricles to contract normally and expel sufficient
blood to meet the functional demands of the body results from a complex interplay between …