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Open AccessRisk stratification in cardiogenic shock: a focus on the available evidence
Cardiogenic shock is a clinical syndrome which is defined as the presence of primary cardiac disorder that results in hypotension together with signs of organ hypoperfusion in the state of normovolaemia or hyp...
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Open AccessThe role of non-invasive imaging modalities in cardiac allograft vasculopathy: an updated focus on current evidences
Cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV) is an obliterative and diffuse form of vasculopathy affecting almost 50% of patients after 10 years from heart transplant and represents the most common cause of long-term ...
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Open AccessClinical, echocardiographic and hemodynamic predictors of right heart failure after LVAD placement
Right ventricular failure (RVF) after left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implant is associated with increasing morbidity and mortality. The aim of this study was to identify the best predictors of RVF post ...
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Open AccessHow to deal with low-flow low-gradient aortic stenosis and reduced left ventricle ejection fraction: from literature review to tips for clinical practice
Low-flow low-gradient aortic stenosis (LFLG AS) with reduced left ventricle ejection fraction (LVEF) is still a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. The aim of this paper is to review the latest evidences abo...
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Multimodality imaging of the ischemic right ventricle: an overview and proposal of a diagnostic algorithm
Right ventricular (RV) involvement is frequently detected in patients presenting with acute left ventricular myocardial infarction. The ischemic right ventricle carries a dismal outcome by predisposing the hea...
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Detection of cardiac allograft vasculopathy by multi-layer left ventricular longitudinal strain in heart transplant recipients
Cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV) is an obliterative and diffuse type of coronaropathy that develops in the transplanted human heart, representing a major cause of graft failure and mortality. Nowadays the ...
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Open AccessCardiogenic shock and acute kidney injury: the rule rather than the exception
Cardiogenic shock (CS) is a life-threatening condition of poor end-organ perfusion, caused by any cardiovascular disease resulting in a severe depression of cardiac output. Despite recent advances in replaceme...
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Traditional and Novel Imaging of Right Ventricular Function in Patients with Heart Failure and Reduced Ejection Fraction
This review attempts to summarize the role of standard and advanced echocardiographic techniques together with CMR in the evaluation of the RV in HF, providing an outlook on the recent evidence.
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Open AccessInfluence of positive end-expiratory pressure on four-chamber longitudinal strain analysis by speckle tracking echocardiography
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Sourceless static Yang-Mills systems
Kalb’s ansatz for static Yang-Mills systems was recently investigated by Morris in the case of vanishing external sources, and a radially symmetric solution was found by him which represents a point magnetic m...
