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Echocardiography in the Recognition and Management of Mechanical Complications of Acute Myocardial Infarction
Although rare, the development of mechanical complications following an acute myocardial infarction is associated with a high morbidity and mortality. Here, we review the clinical features, diagnostic strategy...
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Transesophageal Echocardiographic Screening for Structural Heart Interventions
Percutaneous structural interventions have provided patients with an effective therapeutic option, and its growth has been aided by echocardiography. We describe the vital role that transesophageal echocardiog...
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Clinical Cases of Electrosonography in Patients with Neurological Symptoms
In this chapter the authors provide representative cases of patients presenting to health care system with clinical complaints of neurologic symptoms. Acute neurologic events may have a cardiac source and the ...
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Left Atrial Occlusion Device Implantation: the Role of the Echocardiographer
Atrial fibrillation is the most common arrhythmia worldwide and is a major risk factor for embolic stroke. For patients with atrial fibrillation who are unable to tolerate systemic anticoagulation, left atrial...
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Assessment During and After Surgery or Interventional Procedures on the Mitral Valve
This chapter provides an overview of the role of three-dimensional echocardiography (3DE) in surgical and percutaneous mitral valve procedures. Throughout the chapter, numerous still images and videos are prov...
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Echocardiography in a Patient with a New Murmur
Heart murmurs are common in cardiac care unit (CCU) patients. As many of CCU patients are intubated and unable to provide medical history, the physical exam becomes crucial in piecing together a patient’s medi...
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Echocardiography in Acute Neurologic Syndrome
Stroke is the third leading cause of mortality in the high-income countries. While acute neurologic syndromes can be divided into stroke and non-stroke causes, stroke from a cardiac source is the focus of this...
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Open AccessIntimal spindle cell sarcoma masquerading as adult-onset symptomatic pulmonic stenosis: a case report and review of the literature
Pulmonary artery intimal spindle cell sarcomas are rare and carry with them a poor prognosis and high rate of recurrence. In extremely rare cases, this tumor can infiltrate the pulmonic valve and manifest as a...
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Percutaneous Left Atrial Appendage Closure Devices
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia in humans. It is a major cause of morbidity and mortality as it impairs cardiac function and is a major risk of embolic stroke. Traditionally, thromboembo...
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Hypertension in African Americans with Heart Failure: Progression from Hypertrophy to Dilatation; Perhaps Not
Concentric hypertrophy is thought to transition to left ventricular (LV) dilatation and systolic failure in the presence of long standing hypertension (HTN). Whether or not this transition routinely occurs in ...
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Atrial fibrillation ablation in patients with known sludge in the left atrial appendage
Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is routinely used to assess for thrombus in the left atrium (LA) and left atrial appendage (LAA) in patients undergoing atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation. However, little...
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Open AccessA novel and practical cardiovascular magnetic resonance method to quantify mitral annular excursion and recoil applied to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
We have developed a novel and practical cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) technique to evaluate left ventricular (LV) mitral annular motion by tracking the atrioventricular junction (AVJ). To test AVJ mo...
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The Cholesterol Emboli Syndrome in Atherosclerosis
Cholesterol emboli syndrome is a relatively rare, but potentially devastating, manifestation of atherosclerotic disease. Cholesterol emboli syndrome is characterized by waves of arterio-arterial embolization o...
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Open AccessCardiac MRI correlates of diastolic left ventricular function assessment by echocardiography
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Open AccessDiagnostic performance of CMR and transthoracic echocardiography in clinical evaluation of cardiac masses with histopathological correlation
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Aortic Atherosclerosis and Embolic Events
Aortic plaques are a manifestation of the general process of atherosclerosis in which there is a progressive accumulation of cholesterol and other lipids in the intimal-medial layer of the aorta with secondary...
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Real Time Three Dimensional Transesophageal Echocardiography for Guidance of Catheter Based Interventions
Over the recent years, percutaneous catheter-based intracardiac procedures have gained growing acceptance into the cardiac procedural armamentarium allowing treatment of increasingly complex cardiac pathologie...
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Acute myocardial infarction due to left anterior descending coronary artery dissection after blunt chest trauma
Cardiac complications of chest trauma range from arrhythmias to valvular avulsions to myocardial contusion, rupture, and rarely myocardial infarction. We describe a case of a young patient with blunt chest tra...
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Real-time three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography in transcutaneous, catheter-based procedures for repair of structural heart diseases
We review the use of real-time three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography (RT3D-TEE) in guiding percutaneous catheter-based procedures to repair structural heart defects. The utility of this novel imag...
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Echocardiography in Acute Coronary Syndrome: Anatomy, Essential Views and Imaging Plains
A plentiful arterial circulation is required for an effective myocardial function during both systole and diastole. This supply/demand coupling is accomplished through regional matching of the arterial supply ...
