Echocardiography

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 2-Year Outcomes After Iliofemoral Self-Expanding Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in Patients With Severe Aortic Stenosis Deemed Extreme Risk for Surgery. 
  • 2-Year Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Surgical or Self-Expanding Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement. 
  • 2012 ACCF/AATS/SCAI/STS expert consensus document on transcatheter aortic valve replacement: developed in collabration with the American Heart Association, American Society of Echocardiography, European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Heart Failure Society of America, Mended Hearts, Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists, Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, and Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. 
  • 2012 ACCF/AHA/ACP/AATS/PCNA/SCAI/STS guideline for the diagnosis and management of patients with stable ischemic heart disease: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association task force on practice guidelines, and the American College of Physicians, American Association for Thoracic Surgery, Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, and Society of Thoracic Surgeons. 
  • 2014 AHA/ACC guideline for the management of patients with valvular heart disease: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. 
  • 3-Year Outcomes in High-Risk Patients Who Underwent Surgical or Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement. 
  • 5-year outcomes of transcatheter aortic valve replacement compared with standard treatment for patients with inoperable aortic stenosis (PARTNER 1): a randomised controlled trial. 
  • A 37-year-old man with chest pain, ECG changes, and elevated cardiac enzymes. 
  • A Narrative Review of Cardiovascular Abnormalities After Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage. 
  • A Novel Murine Model of Marfan Syndrome Accelerates Aortopathy and Cardiomyopathy. 
  • A Novel, Comprehensive RV Strain Analysis: Frequently Encountered Ventricular Activation Abnormalities in the Systemic Right Ventricle 
  • A Summary of the American Society of Echocardiography Foundation Value-Based Healthcare: Summit 2014: The Role of Cardiovascular Ultrasound in the New Paradigm. 
  • A comparative evaluation of transesophageal and transthoracic echocardiography for measurement of left ventricular systolic strain using speckle tracking. 
  • A comparison of methods for the detection of myocardial ischemia during noncardiac surgery: automated ST-segment analysis systems, electrocardiography, and transesophageal echocardiography. 
  • A comparison of real-time, two dimensional echocardiography and cineangiography in detecting left ventricular asynergy. 
  • A letter from America. 
  • A letter from America. 
  • A metaanalysis of predischarge risk stratification after acute myocardial infarction with stress electrocardiographic, myocardial perfusion, and ventricular function imaging. 
  • A minimally invasive, algorithm-based approach for anomalous aortic origin of a coronary artery. 
  • A new method for hemodynamic and echocardiographic assessment of conscious dogs: comparison with thiopental-morphine anaesthesia. 
  • A novel ultrasound technique to estimate right ventricular geometry during fibrillation. 
  • A novel, data-driven conceptualization for critical left heart obstruction. 
  • A novel, minimally invasive, segmental myocardial infarction with a clear healed infarct borderzone in rabbits. 
  • A reassessment of the echocardiogram in mitral stenosis. 
  • A reconsideration of Doppler assessed gradients in suspected aortic stenosis. 
  • A retrospective study of pulseless electrical activity, bedside ultrasound identifies interventions during resuscitation associated with improved survival to hospital admission. A REASON Study. 
  • A theoretical study of inertial cavitation from acoustic radiation force impulse imaging and implications for the mechanical index. 
  • ACC/AAP/AHA/ASE/HRS/SCAI/SCCT/SCMR/SOPE 2014 appropriate use criteria for initial transthoracic echocardiography in outpatient pediatric cardiology: a report of the American College of Cardiology Appropriate Use Criteria Task Force, American Academy of Pediatrics, American Heart Association, American Society of Echocardiography, Heart Rhythm Society, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, and Society of Pediatric Echocardiography. 
  • ACC/AAP/AHA/ASE/HRS/SCAI/SCCT/SCMR/SOPE 2014 appropriate use criteria for initial transthoracic echocardiography in outpatient pediatric cardiology: a report of the American College of Cardiology Appropriate Use Criteria Task Force, American Academy of Pediatrics, American Heart Association, American Society of Echocardiography, Heart Rhythm Society, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, and Society of Pediatric Echocardiography. 
  • ACC/AATS/AHA/ASE/ASNC/HRS/SCAI/SCCT/SCMR/STS 2017 Appropriate Use Criteria for Multimodality Imaging in Valvular Heart Disease : A Report of the American College of Cardiology Appropriate Use Criteria Task Force, American Association for Thoracic Surgery, American Heart Association, American Society of Echocardiography, American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, Heart Rhythm Society, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, and Society of Thoracic Surgeons. 
  • ACC/AATS/AHA/ASE/ASNC/SCAI/SCCT/STS 2017 Appropriate Use Criteria for Coronary Revascularization in Patients With Stable Ischemic Heart Disease : A Report of the American College of Cardiology Appropriate Use Criteria Task Force, American Association for Thoracic Surgery, American Heart Association, American Society of Echocardiography, American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, and Society of Thoracic Surgeons. 
  • ACC/AATS/AHA/ASE/ASNC/SCAI/SCCT/STS 2017 Appropriate Use Criteria for Coronary Revascularization in Patients With Stable Ischemic Heart Disease: A Report of the American College of Cardiology Appropriate Use Criteria Task Force, American Association for Thoracic Surgery, American Heart Association, American Society of Echocardiography, American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, and Society of Thoracic Surgeons. 
  • ACC/AHA Guidelines for the Clinical Application of Echocardiography. A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Committee on Clinical Application of Echocardiography). Developed in collaboration with the American Society of Echocardiography. 
  • ACC/AHA clinical competence statement on echocardiography: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association/American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine Task Force on Clinical Competence. 
  • ACC/AHA clinical competence statement on echocardiography: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association/American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine Task Force on clinical competence. 
  • ACC/AHA guidelines for the clinical application of echocardiography: executive summary. A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on practice guidelines (Committee on Clinical Application of Echocardiography). Developed in collaboration with the American Society of Echocardiography. 
  • ACC/AHA/ASE 2003 Guideline Update for the Clinical Application of Echocardiography: summary article. A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (ACC/AHA/ASE Committee to Update the 1997 Guidelines for the Clinical Application of Echocardiography). 
  • ACC/AHA/ASE 2003 guideline update for the clinical application of echocardiography--summary article: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (ACC/AHA/ASE Committee to Update the 1997 Guidelines for the Clinical Application of Echocardiography). 
  • ACC/AHA/ASE 2003 guideline update for the clinical application of echocardiography: summary article: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (ACC/AHA/ASE Committee to Update the 1997 Guidelines for the Clinical Application of Echocardiography). 
  • ACCF 2008 Training Statement on Multimodality Noninvasive Cardiovascular Imaging A Report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association/American College of Physicians Task Force on Clinical Competence and Training Developed in Collaboration With the American Society of Echocardiography, the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, and the Society for Vascular Medicine. 
  • ACCF/AHA/ASE/ASNC/HFSA/HRS/SCAI/SCCT/SCMR/STS 2013 multimodality appropriate use criteria for the detection and risk assessment of stable ischemic heart disease: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation Appropriate Use Criteria Task Force, American Heart Association, American Society of Echocardiography, American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, Heart Failure Society of America, Heart Rhythm Society, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, and Society of Thoracic Surgeons. 
  • ACCF/ASE/ACEP/ASNC/SCAI/SCCT/SCMR 2007 appropriateness criteria for transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation Quality Strategic Directions Committee Appropriateness Criteria Working Group, American Society of Echocardiography, American College of Emergency Physicians, American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, and the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance endorsed by the American College of Chest Physicians and the Society of Critical Care Medicine. 
  • ACCF/ASE/ACEP/ASNC/SCAI/SCCT/SCMR 2007 appropriateness criteria for transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation Quality Strategic Directions Committee Appropriateness Criteria Working Group, American Society of Echocardiography, American College of Emergency Physicians, American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, and the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. Endorsed by the American College of Chest Physicians and the Society of Critical Care Medicine. 
  • ACCF/ASE/AHA/ASNC/HFSA/HRS/SCAI/SCCM/SCCT/SCMR 2011 Appropriate Use Criteria for Echocardiography. A Report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation Appropriate Use Criteria Task Force, American Society of Echocardiography, American Heart Association, American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, Heart Failure Society of America, Heart Rhythm Society, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, Society of Critical Care Medicine, Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance American College of Chest Physicians. 
  • ACCF/ASE/AHA/ASNC/HFSA/HRS/SCAI/SCCM/SCCT/SCMR 2011 Appropriate Use Criteria for Echocardiography. A Report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation Appropriate Use Criteria Task Force, American Society of Echocardiography, American Heart Association, American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, Heart Failure Society of America, Heart Rhythm Society, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, Society of Critical Care Medicine, Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, and Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Endorsed by the American College of Chest Physicians. 
  • ACCF/SCAI/AATS/AHA/ASE/ASNC/HFSA/HRS/SCCM/SCCT/SCMR/STS 2012 appropriate use criteria for diagnostic catheterization: American College of Cardiology Foundation Appropriate Use Criteria Task Force Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions American Association for Thoracic Surgery American Heart Association, American Society of Echocardiography American Society of Nuclear Cardiology Heart Failure Society of America Heart Rhythm Society, Society of Critical Care Medicine Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Society of Thoracic Surgeons. 
  • ACCF/SCAI/AATS/AHA/ASE/ASNC/HFSA/HRS/SCCM/SCCT/SCMR/STS 2012 appropriate use criteria for diagnostic catheterization: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation Appropriate Use Criteria Task Force, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, American Association for Thoracic Surgery, American Heart Association, American Society of Echocardiography, American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, Heart Failure Society of America, Heart Rhythm Society, Society of Critical Care Medicine, Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, Society of Thoracic Surgeons. 
  • ACCF/SCAI/AATS/AHA/ASE/ASNC/HFSA/HRS/SCCM/SCCT/SCMR/STS 2012 appropriate use criteria for diagnostic catheterization: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation Appropriate Use Criteria Task Force, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, American Association for Thoracic Surgery, American Heart Association, American Society of Echocardiography, American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, Heart Failure Society of America, Heart Rhythm Society, Society of Critical Care Medicine, Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, and Society of Thoracic Surgeons. 
  • ASE/SCA recommendations and guidelines for continuous quality improvement in perioperative echocardiography. 
  • Abnormal agitated saline study results after tetralogy of Fallot repair. 
  • Acoustic radiation force impulse imaging of mechanical stiffness propagation in myocardial tissue. 
  • Acoustic radiation force impulse imaging of myocardial radiofrequency ablation: initial in vivo results. 
  • Acquired dynamic left ventricular outflow tract obstruction complicating acute anterior myocardial infarction: serial echocardiographic and clinical evaluation. 
  • Activation delay-induced mechanical dyssynchrony in single-ventricle heart disease. 
  • Acute Treatment With Omecamtiv Mecarbil to Increase Contractility in Acute Heart Failure: The ATOMIC-AHF Study. 
  • Acute functional consequences of left ventriculotomy. 
  • Adult patients with congenital heart disease. 
  • Advances in contrast echocardiography: intraoperative perfusion assessment. 
  • Age-related changes in cardiac structure and function in Fischer 344 x Brown Norway hybrid rats. 
  • Albuminuria and kidney function as prognostic marker of left ventricular mass among South Asians with hypertension. 
  • American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association clinical competence statement on echocardiography: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association/American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine Task Force on Clinical Competence. 
  • American Society of Echocardiography Cardiovascular Technology and Research Summit: a roadmap for 2020. 
  • American Society of Echocardiography Consensus Statement on the Clinical Applications of Ultrasonic Contrast Agents in Echocardiography. 
  • American Society of Echocardiography recommendations for quality echocardiography laboratory operations. 
  • American Society of Echocardiography/Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists recommendations and guidelines for continuous quality improvement in perioperative echocardiography. 
  • An Approach to Improve the Negative Predictive Value and Clinical Utility of Transthoracic Echocardiography in Suspected Native Valve Infective Endocarditis. 
  • An assessment of two different methods of left ventricular ejection time measurement by transesophageal echocardiography. 
  • An association of keratoconus and mitral valve prolapse. 
  • An elderly man who suddenly lost consciousness. 
  • An experimental model of chronic myocardial hibernation. 
  • An exploratory study of cardiac function and oxygen uptake during cycle ergometry in overweight children. 
  • An infant with hypoplastic left heart syndrome and spinal muscular atrophy. 
  • An opportunistic study evaluating pharmacokinetics of sildenafil for the treatment of pulmonary hypertension in infants. 
  • An unusual case of peripartum pulmonary oedema. 
  • Analysis of Regional Left Ventricular Strain in Patients with Chagas Disease and Normal Left Ventricular Systolic Function. 
  • Analysis of myocardial function in orthotopic cardiac allografts after prolonged storage in UW solution. 
  • Anatomic and clinical correlates of septal morphology in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. 
  • Angiotensin AT1 receptor inhibition. Effects on hypertrophic remodeling and ACE expression in rats with pressure-overload hypertrophy due to ascending aortic stenosis. 
  • Angiotensin II blockade followed by growth hormone as adjunctive therapy after experimental myocardial infarction. 
  • Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition prolongs survival and modifies the transition to heart failure in rats with pressure overload hypertrophy due to ascending aortic stenosis. 
  • Ankyrin-B syndrome: enhanced cardiac function balanced by risk of cardiac death and premature senescence. 
  • Anomalous origin of the left coronary artery in tetralogy of Fallot associated with abnormal mitral valve pathology. 
  • Aortic Regurgitation in Acute Type-A Aortic Dissection: A Clinical Classification for the Perioperative Echocardiographer in the Era of the Functional Aortic Annulus. 
  • Aortic root diameter and longitudinal blood pressure tracking. 
  • Aorto-cavitary fistulous tract formation in infective endocarditis: clinical and echocardiographic features of 76 cases and risk factors for mortality. 
  • Aortoarteritis and sensorineural hearing loss in an adolescent black male. 
  • Apex cardiogram in patients with prolapsing mitral valve. 
  • Application of pediatric appropriate use criteria for initial outpatient evaluation of syncope. 
  • Application of the Pediatric Appropriate Use Criteria for Chest Pain. 
  • Appropriate Use of Cardiac Stress Testing with Imaging: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. 
  • Appropriate use criteria: past, present, future. 
  • Appropriate use of echocardiography and relation to clinical decision making in both inpatients and outpatients in a developing country. 
  • Arrhythmias in children having a single left superior vena cava and minimal structural heart disease. 
  • Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy/dysplasia clinical presentation and diagnostic evaluation: results from the North American Multidisciplinary Study. 
  • Arterial blood flow of all abdominal-pelvic organs using Doppler ultrasound: range, variability and physiological impact. 
  • Arterial pulse pressure and postoperative morbidity in high-risk surgical patients. 
  • Assessing acute systemic effects of an inhaled drug with serial echocardiography: a placebo-controlled comparison of inhaled and intravenous dihydroergotamine. 
  • Assessing agreement with repeated measures for random observers. 
  • Assessing myocardial perfusion with Albunex during coronary artery bypass surgery: technical considerations and safety of aortic root injections. 
  • Assessing the severity of mitral stenosis: variability between noninvasive and invasive measurements in patients with symptomatic mitral valve stenosis. 
  • Assessment of Diastolic Function in Single-Ventricle Patients After the Fontan Procedure. 
  • Assessment of Paravalvular Leak After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Transesophageal Echocardiography Compared With Transthoracic Echocardiography. 
  • Assessment of cardiac allograft systolic function by global longitudinal strain: From donor to recipient. 
  • Assessment of echocardiography and biomarkers for the extended prediction of cardiotoxicity in patients treated with anthracyclines, taxanes, and trastuzumab. 
  • Assessment of left ventricular functional preservation during isolated cardiac valve operations. 
  • Assessment of left ventricular pressure-volume relations using gated radionuclide angiography, echocardiography, and micromanometer pressure recordings. A new method for serial measurements of systolic and diastolic function in man. 
  • Assessment of myocardial perfusion during CABG surgery with two-dimensional transesophageal contrast echocardiography. 
  • Assessment of regional wall motion abnormalities with real-time 3-dimensional echocardiography. 
  • Assessment of retrograde cardioplegia distribution using contrast echocardiography. 
  • Assessment of the Frank-Starling relationship by two-dimensional echocardiography. 
  • Assessment of the reductions in night-time blood pressure and dipping induced by antihypertensive medication using a home blood pressure monitor. 
  • Association between early echocardiography, therapy for patent ductus arteriosus, and outcomes in very low birth weight infants. 
  • Association between exercise capacity and left ventricular geometry in overweight patients with mild systemic hypertension. 
  • Association between frequency of atrial and ventricular ectopic beats and biventricular pacing percentage and outcomes in patients with cardiac resynchronization therapy. 
  • Association between myocardial substrate, implantable cardioverter defibrillator shocks and mortality in MADIT-CRT. 
  • Association between phonocardiographic third and fourth heart sounds and objective measures of left ventricular function. 
  • Association between physician billing and cardiac stress testing patterns following coronary revascularization. 
  • Association between selective serotonin-reuptake inhibitor therapy and heart valve regurgitation. 
  • Association between valvular surgery and mortality among patients with infective endocarditis complicated by heart failure. 
  • Association of Early Hemodynamic Profile and the Development of Systolic Dysfunction Following Traumatic Brain Injury. 
  • Association of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T and N-terminal pro-brain-type natriuretic peptide with left ventricular structure: J-HOP study. 
  • Associations between positive emotional well-being and stress-induced myocardial ischemia: Well-being scores predict exercise-induced ischemia. 
  • Associations of Blood Pressure Dipping Patterns With Left Ventricular Mass and Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Blacks: The Jackson Heart Study. 
  • Atrial Septostomy to Treat Stiff Left Atrium Syndrome. 
  • Atrial fibrillation after pulmonary transplant. 
  • Atrial septal aneurysm: association with cerebrovascular and peripheral embolic events. 
  • Atrial septal aneurysm: recognition and clinical relevance. 
  • Augmentation of cardiac contractility mediated by the human beta(3)-adrenergic receptor overexpressed in the hearts of transgenic mice. 
  • Bacterial endocarditis in hemodialysis patients. 
  • Bacterial endocarditis in infants and children. 
  • Balloon aortic valvuloplasty in adults: failure of procedure to improve long-term survival. 
  • Balloon mitral commissurotomy after previous surgical commissurotomy. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Balloon Valvuloplasty Registry participants. 
  • Basic diagnostic echocardiography. 
  • Basic fibroblast growth factor in a porcine model of chronic myocardial ischemia: a comparison of angiographic, echocardiographic and coronary flow parameters. 
  • Basic perioperative transesophageal echocardiography examination: a consensus statement of the American Society of Echocardiography and the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists. 
  • Beware of life-threatening activation of air bubble detector during contrast echocardiography in patients on venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenator support. 
  • Biatrial appendage hypertrophy but not ventricular hypertrophy: a unique feature of canine pacing-induced heart failure. 
  • Biomarkers in atrial fibrillation: a clinical review. 
  • Biosensibility of viability: NOGA or no good? 
  • Biventricular Support With Intracorporeal, Continuous Flow, Centrifugal Ventricular Assist Devices. 
  • COCATS 4 Task Force 5: Training in Echocardiography. 
  • COCATS 4 Task Force 5: Training in Echocardiography: Endorsed by the American Society of Echocardiography. 
  • CSF catecholamine profile in subarachnoid hemorrhage patients with neurogenic cardiomyopathy. 
  • Calcific valvular aortic stenosis with and without mitral anular calcium. 
  • Can we improve the identification of ventricular scar to guide substrate-based ventricular tachycardia ablation? 
  • Capillary density of skeletal muscle: a contributing mechanism for exercise intolerance in class II-III chronic heart failure independent of other peripheral alterations. 
  • Carcinoid heart disease. Correlation of high serotonin levels with valvular abnormalities detected by cardiac catheterization and echocardiography. 
  • Cardiac Index Declines During Long-Term Left Ventricular Device Support. 
  • Cardiac and muscle fatigue due to relative functional overload induced by excessive stimulation, hypersensitive excitation-contraction coupling, or diminished performance capacity correlates with sarcoplasmic reticulum failure. 
  • Cardiac conduction abnormalities in endocarditis defined by the Duke criteria. 
  • Cardiac conduction defects in patients older than 60 years with aortic stenosis with and without mitral anular calcium. 
  • Cardiac dysfunction following brain death in children: prevalence, normalization, and transplantation. 
  • Cardiac evaluation for structural abnormalities may not be required in patients presenting with syncope and a normal ECG result in an observation unit setting. 
  • Cardiac fatigue after prolonged exercise. 
  • Cardiac function during rest and exercise in patients with mitral valve prolapse. Role of radionuclear angiocardiography. 
  • Cardiac function in alcohol-associated systemic hypertension. 
  • Cardiac hypertrophy and sudden death in mice with a genetically clamped renin transgene. 
  • Cardiac imaging approaches to evaluate drug-induced myocardial dysfunction. 
  • Cardiac imaging using a phased array ultrasound system. I. System design. 
  • Cardiac imaging using a phased array ultrasound system. II. Clinical technique and application. 
  • Cardiac involvement in myotonic muscular dystrophy. 
  • Cardiac micro-computed tomography for morphological and functional phenotyping of muscle LIM protein null mice. 
  • Cardiac remodeling after enzyme replacement therapy with acid alpha-glucosidase for infants with Pompe disease. 
  • Cardiac resynchronization therapy: Identifying an activation delay by regional strain analysis. 
  • Cardiac resynchronization therapy: Part 1--issues before device implantation. 
  • Cardiac resynchronization therapy: Part 2--issues during and after device implantation and unresolved questions. 
  • Cardiac rhabdomyoma in an adult patient presenting with ventricular arrhythmia. 
  • Cardiac risk of noncardiac surgery in patients with asymmetric septal hypertrophy. 
  • Cardiac tamponade in a patient with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. 
  • Cardiac tamponade. 
  • Cardiac troponin T and I, echocardiographic [correction of electrocardiographic] wall motion analyses, and ejection fractions in athletes participating in the Hawaii Ironman Triathlon. 
  • Cardiac ultrasound phantom using a porcine heart model. 
  • Cardiac-specific mindin overexpression attenuates cardiac hypertrophy via blocking AKT/GSK3β and TGF-β1-Smad signalling. 
  • Cardio-protective effects of carnitine in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats. 
  • Cardiogenic shock. 
  • Cardiomyocyte-Specific Human Bcl2-Associated Anthanogene 3 P209L Expression Induces Mitochondrial Fragmentation, Bcl2-Associated Anthanogene 3 Haploinsufficiency, and Activates p38 Signaling. 
  • Cardioplegia delivery: more (or less) than what you see. 
  • Cardiovascular Outcomes Assessment of the MitraClip in Patients with Heart Failure and Secondary Mitral Regurgitation: Design and rationale of the COAPT trial. 
  • Cardiovascular abnormalities in late-onset Pompe disease and response to enzyme replacement therapy. 
  • Cardiovascular abnormalities in transgenic mice with reduced brown fat: an animal model of human obesity. 
  • Cardioversion from atrial fibrillation without prolonged anticoagulation with use of transesophageal echocardiography to exclude the presence of atrial thrombi. 
  • Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 28-2007. A 68-year-old man with syncope. 
  • Cellular and functional defects in a mouse model of heart failure. 
  • Challenges and implementation of radiation-force imaging with an intracardiac ultrasound transducer. 
  • Changes in Medicare reimbursement for echocardiographic procedures. 
  • Changes in hemodynamics and left ventricular structure after menopause. 
  • Changes in left ventricular diastolic performance after aortic balloon valvuloplasty: acute and late effects. 
  • Changes in regional myocardial function after coronary artery bypass graft surgery are predicted by intraoperative low-dose dobutamine echocardiography. 
  • Changing diastolic closure rates (E to F slopes) in a patient with mitral stenosis: a case report. 
  • Characteristics and in-hospital outcomes of patients with cardiac tamponade complicating type A acute aortic dissection. 
  • Characterization and prediction of natriuretic peptide "nonresponse" during heart failure management: results from the ProBNP Outpatient Tailored Chronic Heart Failure (PROTECT) and the NT-proBNP-Assisted Treatment to Lessen Serial Cardiac Readmissions and Death (BATTLESCARRED) study. 
  • Cheyne-Stokes respiration: poor prognostic sign in a patient with heart failure. 
  • Chronic false aneurysms of the left ventricle: management revisited. 
  • Classic-pattern dyssynchrony and electrical activation delays in pediatric dilated cardiomyopathy. 
  • Clinical Trial Design Principles and Endpoint Definitions for Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair and Replacement: Part 1: Clinical Trial Design Principles: A Consensus Document From the Mitral Valve Academic Research Consortium. 
  • Clinical and echocardiographic characteristics of patients with mitral anular calcification. Comparison with age- and sex-matched control subjects. 
  • Clinical applications of coronary sinus retroperfusion during high risk percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty. 
  • Clinical applications of echocardiography in myocardial and valvular heart disease. 
  • Clinical characteristics of patients younger than 60 years with mitral anular calcium: comparison with age- and sex-matched control subjects. 
  • Clinical impact of concomitant tricuspid valve procedures during left ventricular assist device implantation. 
  • Clinical outcomes after long-term treatment with alglucosidase alfa in infants and children with advanced Pompe disease. 
  • Clinical problem-solving. A hole in the argument. 
  • Clinical problem-solving. A key miscommunication--an 81-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with increasing abdominal distention, nausea, and vomiting. 
  • Clinical problem-solving. Undercover and overlooked. 
  • Clinical results of real-time ultrasonic scanning of the heart using a phased array system. 
  • Clinical study of the cardiac findings in patients on chronic maintenance hemodialysis: the relationship to coronary risk factors. 
  • Clinical trial design principles and endpoint definitions for transcatheter mitral valve repair and replacement: part 1: clinical trial design principles: A consensus document from the mitral valve academic research consortium. 
  • Clinical utility of transthoracic two-dimensional and Doppler echocardiography. 
  • Clinicians' Adherence to Guidelines on Evaluation of Hypertension in Children and Adolescents. 
  • Combined doppler and phased-array echocardiographic estimation of cardiac output. 
  • Combined valvular disease: when echocardiography provides the questions and the answers. 
  • Comparison of Incidence of Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction Among Patients With Left Bundle Branch Block Versus Those With Normal QRS Duration. 
  • Comparison of M-mode and two-dimensional echocardiography. 
  • Comparison of echocardiographic and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging measurements of functional single ventricular volumes, mass, and ejection fraction (from the Pediatric Heart Network Fontan Cross-Sectional Study). 
  • Comparison of echocardiographic methods for assessment of left ventricular shortening and wall stress. 
  • Comparison of heart failure in children with enterovirus 71 rhombencephalitis and cats with norepinephrine cardiotoxicity. 
  • Comparison of long-term postoperative sequelae in patients with tetralogy of Fallot versus isolated pulmonic stenosis. 
  • Comparison of transcatheter and surgical aortic valve replacement in severe aortic stenosis: a longitudinal study of echocardiography parameters in cohort A of the PARTNER trial (placement of aortic transcatheter valves). 
  • Comparison of two-dimensional echocardiographic and angiographic findings in arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia. 
  • Complete LVOT obstruction following aortic valve replacement after HeartMate II implantation. 
  • Comprehensive assessment of right ventricular function in patients with pulmonary hypertension with global longitudinal peak systolic strain derived from multiple right ventricular views. 
  • Computed Tomography-Based Oversizing Degrees and Incidence of Paravalvular Regurgitation of a New Generation Transcatheter Heart Valve. 
  • Conduction defects and mitral annulus calcification. 
  • Congestive heart failure due to adriamycin cardiotoxicity: its natural history in children. 
  • Consensus conference report: maximizing use of organs recovered from the cadaver donor: cardiac recommendations, March 28-29, 2001, Crystal City, Va. 
  • Consequence of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987: elimination of markup for certain diagnostic tests. 
  • Continuing education course #1: non-invasive imaging as a problem-solving tool and translational biomarker strategy in toxicologic pathology. 
  • Contrast echocardiography: a method to visualize changes in regional myocardial perfusion in the dog model for CABG surgery. 
  • Contrast echocardiography: influence of ultrasonic machine settings, mixing conditions, and pressurization on pixel intensity and microsphere size of Albunex solutions in vitro. 
  • Contrast echocardiography: past, present, and...future? 
  • Contrast-enhanced anatomic imaging as compared to contrast-enhanced tissue characterization for detection of left ventricular thrombus. 
  • Contribution of afterload, hypertrophy and geometry to left ventricular ejection fraction in aortic valve stenosis, pure aortic regurgitation and idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy. 
  • Contributors to and impact of residual shunting after device closure of atrial septal defects. 
  • Core lab analysis of baseline echocardiographic studies in the STICH trial and recommendation for use of echocardiography in future clinical trials. 
  • Coronary artery disease and liver transplantation: the state of the art. 
  • Correlation between calcific aortic stenosis diagnosed by two-dimensional echocardiography and cardiac catheterization. 
  • Correlation between quantitative left atrial spontaneous echocardiographic contrast and intact fibrinogen levels in mitral stenosis. 
  • Correlation of adenosine echocardiography and thallium scintigraphy. 
  • Correlation of cine MR imaging with two-dimensional pulsed Doppler echocardiography in valvular insufficiency. 
  • Corynebacterium endocarditis of a percutaneously placed transcatheter pulmonary valve. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of diagnostic strategies for patients with chest pain. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of electrocardiography vs. electrocardiography plus limited echocardiography to diagnose LVH in young, newly identified, hypertensives. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of screening for asymptomatic left ventricular dysfunction in childhood cancer survivors. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of using N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide to guide the diagnostic assessment and management of dyspneic patients in the emergency department. 
  • Costs for heart failure with normal vs reduced ejection fraction. 
  • Coughing up blood: Behçet's disease. 
  • Creatinine kinase kinetics studied by phosphorus-31 nuclear magnetic resonance in a canine model of chronic hypertension-induced cardiac hypertrophy. 
  • Credentialing of the cardiac sonographer: the need for unification. 
  • Crises in echocardiography. 
  • Critical Review of Current Approaches for Echocardiographic Reproducibility and Reliability Assessment in Clinical Research. 
  • Cross-sectional relations of lipid concentrations to left ventricular structural attributes. 
  • Cross-sectional relations of urinary sodium excretion to cardiac structure and hypertrophy. The Framingham Heart Study. 
  • Defective beta-adrenergic receptor signaling precedes the development of dilated cardiomyopathy in transgenic mice with calsequestrin overexpression. 
  • Defibrillation and the geometry of the heart: a novel measurement with implications for defibrillation mechanisms. 
  • Definite hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia in a 60-year-old black Kenyan woman: a case report. 
  • Degenerative aortic stenosis. 
  • Delayed enhancement cardiac MR imaging in noncompaction of left ventricular myocardium. 
  • Delayed postmyectomy ventricular septal defect. 
  • Depressive symptoms and mental stress-induced myocardial ischemia in patients with coronary heart disease. 
  • Detection and exclusion of interatrial shunts by two-dimensional echocardiography and peripheral venous injection. 
  • Detection of left ventricular thrombi by computerised tomography. A preliminary report. 
  • Detection of persistent left superior vena cava by two-dimensional contrast echocardiography. 
  • Detection of pulmonary venous flow by pulsed Doppler echocardiography in children. 
  • Detection of tricuspid regurgitation with two-dimensional echocardiography and peripheral vein injections. 
  • Determinants of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy and Diastolic Dysfunction in an HIV Clinical Cohort. 
  • Determinants of one-year outcome from balloon aortic valvuloplasty. 
  • Developing therapies for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: current state and future directions. 
  • Diabetic atrial fibrillation patients: mortality and risk for stroke or embolism during a 10-year follow-up. 
  • Diabetic cardiomyopathy and carnitine deficiency. 
  • Diagnosis of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy/dysplasia: proposed modification of the task force criteria. 
  • Diagnosis of cardiac defects: where we've been, where we are and where we're going. 
  • Diagnostic evaluation for patients with ischemic stroke: are there sex differences? 
  • Diagnostic testing. 
  • Diastolic vibration of the interventricular septum in aortic insufficiency. 
  • Different effects of prolonged exercise on the right and left ventricles. 
  • Differential cardiac effects of growth hormone and insulin-like growth factor-1 in the rat. A combined in vivo and in vitro evaluation. 
  • Dilated cardiomyopathy in isolated congenital complete atrioventricular block: early and long-term risk in children. 
  • Disproportionately high risk of left ventricular hypertrophy in Indo-Asian women: a call for more studies. 
  • Disruption of mindin exacerbates cardiac hypertrophy and fibrosis. 
  • Distinctive clinical features of portopulmonary hypertension. 
  • Dobutamine stress echocardiography for orthotopic liver transplant evaluation. 
  • Dobutamine stress echocardiography for preoperative cardiac risk stratification in patients undergoing orthotopic liver transplantation. 
  • Does hypotension during dobutamine stress echocardiography correlate with anatomic or functional cardiac impairment? 
  • Does initial shunt type for the Norwood procedure affect echocardiographic measures of cardiac size and function during infancy?: the Single Vventricle Reconstruction trial. 
  • Does the relationship between natriuretic hormones and diastolic function differ by race? 
  • Doppler evaluation of homograft valved conduits in children. 
  • Doppler evaluation of normalized peak filling rate in normal children and children with left ventricular outflow obstruction. 
  • Doxorubicin-induced cardiac dysfunction in unselected patients with a history of early-stage breast cancer. 
  • Ductus arteriosus in premature infants beyond the second week of life. 
  • Dynamic cardiac imaging using a focused, phased-array ultrasound system. 
  • Dysautonomia due to reduced cholinergic neurotransmission causes cardiac remodeling and heart failure. 
  • Early Systolic Dysfunction Following Traumatic Brain Injury: A Cohort Study. 
  • Early and late changes in left ventricular systolic performance after percutaneous aortic balloon valvuloplasty. 
  • Early detection and prediction of cardiotoxicity in chemotherapy-treated patients. 
  • Early echocardiographic deformation analysis for the prediction of sudden cardiac death and life-threatening arrhythmias after myocardial infarction. 
  • Early postoperative changes in left ventricular chamber size, architecture, and function in aortic stenosis and aortic regurgitation and their relation to intraoperative changes in afterload: a prospective two-dimensional echocardiographic study. 
  • Early recovery from heart failure: insights into the pathogenesis of experimental chronic pacing-induced heart failure. 
  • Early restenosis following successful percutaneous balloon valvuloplasty for calcific valvular aortic stenosis. 
  • Echo/Doppler and hemodynamic correlates of vasodilator responsiveness in primary pulmonary hypertension. 
  • Echocardiographic Algorithm for Post-Myocardial Infarction LV Thrombus: A Gatekeeper for Thrombus Evaluation by Delayed Enhancement CMR. 
  • Echocardiographic Assessment of Complete Atrioventricular Canal Defects: A Balancing Act. 
  • Echocardiographic Confirmation of Coronary Blood Flow. 
  • Echocardiographic Risk Factors for Stroke and Outcomes in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation Anticoagulated With Apixaban or Warfarin. 
  • Echocardiographic analysis of dysfunctional and normal myocardial segments before and immediately after coronary artery bypass graft surgery. 
  • Echocardiographic and electrocardiographic characteristics of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with and without mitral anular calcium. 
  • Echocardiographic assessment of cardiac morphology and function in mutant dwarf rats. 
  • Echocardiographic detection and clinical significance of left atrial vegetations in active infective endocarditis. 
  • Echocardiographic detection of pericardiocentesis-induced subepicardial and intramyocardial hematoma. 
  • Echocardiographic documentation of vegetative lesions in infective endocarditis: clinical implications. 
  • Echocardiographic evaluation of tricuspid valve endocarditis: an M mode and two dimensional study. 
  • Echocardiographic evidence for impaired myocardial performance in children with type I diabetes mellitus. 
  • Echocardiographic findings in fulminant and acute myocarditis. 
  • Echocardiographic guidance of cardiac catheterization for atrial septal defect in pregnancy. 
  • Echocardiographic imaging in clinical trials: American Society of Echocardiography Standards for echocardiography core laboratories: endorsed by the American College of Cardiology Foundation. 
  • Echocardiographic imaging of procedural complications during balloon-expandable transcatheter aortic valve replacement. 
  • Echocardiographic indexes of allograft rejection in pediatric cardiac transplant recipients. 
  • Echocardiographic manifestations of Glycogen Storage Disease III: increase in wall thickness and left ventricular mass over time. 
  • Echocardiographic methods, quality review, and measurement accuracy in a randomized multicenter clinical trial of Marfan syndrome. 
  • Echocardiographic risk stratification for early surgery with endocarditis: a cost-effectiveness analysis. 
  • Echocardiographic visualization of coronary artery anatomy in the adult. 
  • Echocardiographically detected mass "in transit" in early amniotic fluid embolism. 
  • Echocardiographically detected myocardial infarction in the mouse. 
  • Echocardiography allows safer venous cannulation during excision of large right atrial masses. 
  • Echocardiography for the assessment of myocardial viability. 
  • Echocardiography in Clinical Trials for TAVR: Getting to the Core of the Matter. 
  • Echocardiography in emergency medicine: a policy statement by the American Society of Echocardiography and the American College of Cardiology. Task Force on Echocardiography in Emergency Medicine of the American Society of Echocardiography and the Echocardiography and Technology and Practice Executive Committees of the American College of Cardiology. 
  • Echocardiography in emergency medicine: a policy statement by the American Society of Echocardiography and the American College of Cardiology. The Task Force on Echocardiography in Emergency Medicine of the American Society of Echocardiography and the Echocardiography TPEC Committees of the American College of Cardiology. 
  • Echocardiography in infective endocarditis. 
  • Echocardiography in the Management of Patients with Left Ventricular Assist Devices: Recommendations from the American Society of Echocardiography. 
  • Echocardiography in the Risk Assessment of Acute Pulmonary Embolism. 
  • Echocardiography of the aortic valve in non-rheumatic left ventricular outflow tract lesions. 
  • Echocardiography of the mitral valve. 
  • Educational intervention for improving the appropriateness of transthoracic echocardiograms ordered by pediatric cardiologists. 
  • Effect of Release of the First Pediatric Appropriate Use Criteria on Transthoracic Echocardiogram Ordering Practice. 
  • Effect of Sex on Reverse Remodeling in Chronic Systolic Heart Failure. 
  • Effect of Transmit Beamforming on Clutter Levels in Transthoracic Echocardiography. 
  • Effect of acute standing and prolonged upright activity on left ventricular hemodynamics, systolic and diastolic intervals, and QT-QS2 relationship. 
  • Effect of biventricular pacing during a ventricular sensed event. 
  • Effect of dexmedetomidine on pulmonary artery pressure after congenital cardiac surgery: A pilot study. 
  • Effect of dobutamine stress echocardiography on mitral regurgitation. 
  • Effect of increased body mass index on accuracy of two-dimensional echocardiography for measurement of left ventricular volume, ejection fraction, and mass. 
  • Effect of increasing pump speed during exercise on peak oxygen uptake in heart failure patients supported with a continuous-flow left ventricular assist device. A double-blind randomized study. 
  • Effect of obesity on B-type natriuretic peptide levels in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension. 
  • Effect of pharmacologic increases in afterload on left ventricular rotation and strain in a rabbit model. 
  • Effect of valve deformity on results and mitral regurgitation after Inoue balloon commissurotomy. 
  • Effects of biventricular pacing on left heart twist and strain in a porcine model of right heart failure. 
  • Effects of propranolol treatment on left ventricular function and intracellular calcium regulation in rats with postinfarction heart failure. 
  • Effects of selective matrix metalloproteinase inhibitor (PG-116800) to prevent ventricular remodeling after myocardial infarction: results of the PREMIER (Prevention of Myocardial Infarction Early Remodeling) trial. 
  • Effects of standard mitral valve replacement on left ventricular function. 
  • Effects of the Novel Long-Acting GLP-1 Agonist, Albiglutide, on Cardiac Function, Cardiac Metabolism, and Exercise Capacity in Patients With Chronic Heart Failure and Reduced Ejection Fraction. 
  • Efficacy and durability of central oversewing for treatment of aortic insufficiency in patients with continuous-flow left ventricular assist devices. 
  • Efficient Strategies for Estimating the Spatial Coherence of Backscatter. 
  • Ejection fraction assessment and survival: an analysis of the Sudden Cardiac Death in Heart Failure Trial (SCD-HeFT). 
  • Electrocardiographic characteristics of potential organ donors and associations with cardiac allograft use. 
  • Electrocardiographic diagnosis of exercise-induced left ventricular hypertrophy. 
  • Electrocardiography to define clinical status in primary pulmonary hypertension and pulmonary arterial hypertension secondary to collagen vascular disease. 
  • Endocarditis in a dog due to infection with a novel Bartonella subspecies. 
  • Endocarditis in the newborn. 
  • Endurance exercise in the presence of heart disease. 
  • Enhanced cardiac function in transgenic mice expressing a Ca(2+)-stimulated adenylyl cyclase. 
  • Enterococcal endocarditis: 107 cases from the international collaboration on endocarditis merged database. 
  • Erythropoietin activates mitochondrial biogenesis and couples red cell mass to mitochondrial mass in the heart. 
  • Estimation of left ventricular volume and ejection fraction by two-dimensional transoesophageal echocardiography: comparison of short axis imaging and simultaneous radionuclide angiography. 
  • Estimation of wall stress and left ventricular mass by noninvasive techniques and clinical implications. 
  • Ethnic differences in forearm vasodilator capacity. 
  • Ethnic differences in left ventricular structure: relations to hemodynamics and diurnal blood pressure variation. 
  • Evaluating Appropriate Use of Pediatric Echocardiograms for Chest Pain in Outpatient Clinics. 
  • Evaluation of Structural Progression in Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia/Cardiomyopathy. 
  • Evaluation of mechanical dyssynchrony and myocardial perfusion using phase analysis of gated SPECT imaging in patients with left ventricular dysfunction. 
  • Evaluation of myocardial viability by MRI. 
  • Evaluation of the Incremental Prognostic Utility of Increasingly Complex Testing in Chronic Heart Failure. 
  • Evaluation of the effect of transthoracic cardioversion from ventricular tachycardia to sinus rhythm on left atrial mechanical function. 
  • Evaluation of the left ventricle by two-dimensional echocardiography. 
  • Evaluation of the left ventricle with two dimensional echocardiography. 
  • Evolving trends in the use of echocardiography: a study of Medicare beneficiaries. 
  • Examination protocol for three-dimensional echocardiography. 
  • Exercise echocardiography or exercise SPECT imaging? A meta-analysis of diagnostic test performance. 
  • Exercise echocardiography vs exercise SPECT testing. 
  • Exercise training changes IL-10/TNF-alpha ratio in the skeletal muscle of post-MI rats. 
  • Experimental congestive heart failure produced by rapid ventricular pacing in the dog: cardiac effects. 
  • Extracellular superoxide dismutase regulates cardiac function and fibrosis. 
  • Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in an infant of a diabetic mother. 
  • Factors affecting use of the Doppler-determined time from flow onset to maximal pulmonary artery velocity for measurement of pulmonary artery pressure in children. 
  • Factors impacting echocardiographic imaging after the Fontan procedure: a report from the pediatric heart network fontan cross-sectional study. 
  • Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and atrial fibrillation caused by Arg663His beta-cardiac myosin heavy chain mutation. 
  • Feasibility of near real-time lesion assessment during radiofrequency catheter ablation in humans using acoustic radiation force impulse imaging. 
  • Feasibility of point-of-care echocardiography by internal medicine house staff. 
  • Feasibility of speckle-tracking echocardiography for assessment of left ventricular dysfunction after cardiopulmonary bypass. 
  • Fetal echocardiography and fetal cardiology: indications, diagnosis and management. 
  • Fibroblast growth factor 23, high-sensitivity cardiac troponin, and left ventricular hypertrophy in CKD. 
  • Flow quantification using fast cine phase-contrast MR imaging, conventional cine phase-contrast MR imaging, and Doppler sonography: in vitro and in vivo validation. 
  • Focused Transthoracic Cardiac Ultrasound: A Survey of Training Practices. 
  • Focused cardiac ultrasound as a predictor of readmission in acute decompensated heart failure. 
  • Frequency of infective endocarditis among infants and children with Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia. 
  • Frequent Activation Delay-Induced Mechanical Dyssynchrony and Dysfunction in the Systemic Right Ventricle. 
  • Fulminant myopericarditis from phenytoin-induced systemic lupus erythematosus. 
  • Functional Mitral Regurgitation: Appraising the Evidence Behind Recommended Treatment Strategies. 
  • Functional abnormalities in isolated left bundle branch block. The effect of interventricular asynchrony. 
  • Fusion of aortic valve commissures in patients supported by a continuous axial flow left ventricular assist device. 
  • Gender-specific patterns of left ventricular and myocyte remodeling following myocardial infarction in mice deficient in the angiotensin II type 1a receptor. 
  • Genetic alterations that inhibit in vivo pressure-overload hypertrophy prevent cardiac dysfunction despite increased wall stress. 
  • Genetic mutations in African patients with atrial fibrillation: Rationale and design of the Study of Genetics of Atrial Fibrillation in an African Population (SIGNAL). 
  • Getting to a Man's Heart through His Colon. 
  • Glenn shunt facilitated weaning of right ventricular mechanical support. 
  • Gradient and spin echo(cardiographic) magnetic resonance imaging: prevalence of descriptive errors in published articles. 
  • Grading Aortic Stenosis With Mean Gradient and Aortic Valve Area: A Comparison Between Preoperative Transthoracic and Precardiopulmonary Bypass Transesophageal Echocardiography. 
  • Growth hormone attenuates early left ventricular remodeling and improves cardiac function in rats with large myocardial infarction. 
  • Guideline-based decision support has a small, non-sustained effect on transthoracic echocardiography ordering frequency. 
  • Guidelines for cardiac sonographer education: report of the American Society of Echocardiography Sonographer Education and Training Committee. 
  • Guidelines for performing a comprehensive epicardial echocardiography examination: recommendations of the American Society of Echocardiography and the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists. 
  • Guidelines for performing a comprehensive epicardial echocardiography examination: recommendations of the American Society of Echocardiography and the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists. 
  • Guidelines for the cardiac sonographer in the performance of contrast echocardiography: recommendations of the American Society of Echocardiography Council on Cardiac Sonography. 
  • Guidelines for training in adult cardiovascular medicine. Core Cardiology Training Symposium (COCATS). Task Force 4: training in echocardiography. 
  • Hand-carried cardiac ultrasound (HCU) device: recommendations regarding new technology. A report from the Echocardiography Task Force on New Technology of the Nomenclature and Standards Committee of the American Society of Echocardiography. 
  • Hand-held echocardiographic examination of patients with symptoms of acute coronary syndromes in the emergency department: the 30-day outcome associated with normal left ventricular wall motion. 
  • Harmonic spatial coherence imaging: an ultrasonic imaging method based on backscatter coherence. 
  • Health Care Financing Administration release of final physician payment reform regulation. 
  • Heart Failure Is Common and Under-Recognized in Patients With Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy/Dysplasia. 
  • Heart failure preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF): an integrated and strategic review. 
  • Heart failure survival score in patients with Chagas disease: correlation with functional variables. 
  • Hemodynamic changes during dialysis. 
  • Hemodynamic correlates for timing intervals, ejection rate and filling rate derived from the radionuclide angiographic volume curve. 
  • Hemodynamic effects of new intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation timing methods in patients: a multicenter evaluation. 
  • Hemoglobin βCys93 is essential for cardiovascular function and integrated response to hypoxia. 
  • High prevalence of symptomatic bradyarrhythmias due to atrioventricular node-fascicular and sinus node-atrial disease in patients with mitral anular calcification. 
  • High-Frame-Rate Deformation Imaging in Two Dimensions Using Continuous Speckle-Feature Tracking. 
  • High-risk percutaneous coronary intervention is associated with reverse left ventricular remodeling and improved outcomes in patients with coronary artery disease and reduced ejection fraction. 
  • Highlights of the 26(th) Scientific Sessions' Pediatric Congenital Track. 
  • Highlights of the Year in JACC 2006. 
  • Histologic and biochemical correlates of left ventricular chamber dynamics in man. 
  • Hormone replacement improves hemodynamic profile and left ventricular geometry in hypertensive and normotensive postmenopausal women. 
  • Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in cardiac myosin binding protein-C knockout mice. 
  • Hypertrophic remodeling: gender differences in the early response to left ventricular pressure overload. 
  • Hypotension during dobutamine stress echocardiography: is it related to dynamic intraventricular obstruction? 
  • Identification of Typical Left Bundle Branch Block Contraction by Strain Echocardiography Is Additive to Electrocardiography in Prediction of Long-Term Outcome After Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy. 
  • Identifying stunned myocardium during cardiac surgery: the role of myocardial contrast echocardiography. 
  • Identifying the cause of left ventricular systolic dysfunction after coronary artery bypass surgery: the role of myocardial contrast echocardiography. 
  • Image quality, tissue heating, and frame rate trade-offs in acoustic radiation force impulse imaging. 
  • Images in cardiology: Loeffler's endocarditis resulting from acute lymphoblastic leukemia. 
  • Images in cardiovascular medicine. Kawasaki disease: coronary aneurysms in mother and son. 
  • Images in cardiovascular medicine. Left ventricular apical pseudoaneurysm: echocardiographic and intraoperative findings. 
  • Images in cardiovascular medicine. Noninvasive characterization of left atrial mass. 
  • Imaging techniques for diagnosis of infective endocarditis. 
  • Imaging techniques for diagnosis of infective endocarditis. 
  • Immediate mechanical effects of acute left bundle branch block by speckle tracked strain. 
  • Impact of Balloon Predilatation on Hemodynamics and Outcomes After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation With the Self-Expanding CoreValve Prosthesis. 
  • Impact of changing indications and increased utilization of fetal echocardiography on prenatal detection of congenital heart disease. 
  • Impact of choice of imaging modality accompanying outpatient exercise stress testing on outcomes and resource use after revascularization for acute coronary syndromes. 
  • Impact of initial norwood shunt type on right ventricular deformation: the single ventricle reconstruction trial. 
  • Impact of initial shunt type on cardiac size and function in children with single right ventricle anomalies before the Fontan procedure: the single ventricle reconstruction extension trial. 
  • Impact of left ventricular ejection fraction on clinical outcomes over five years after infarct-related coronary artery recanalization (from the Occluded Artery Trial [OAT]). 
  • Impact of preoperative moderate/severe mitral regurgitation on 2-year outcome after transcatheter and surgical aortic valve replacement: insight from the Placement of Aortic Transcatheter Valve (PARTNER) Trial Cohort A. 
  • Impaired left ventricular global longitudinal strain in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: insights from the RELAX trial. 
  • Implantation of mouse embryonic stem cell-derived cardiac progenitor cells preserves function of infarcted murine hearts. 
  • Implementation of echocardiography core laboratory best practices: a case study of the PARTNER I trial. 
  • Importance of echocardiography in patients with severe nonischemic heart failure: the second Prospective Randomized Amlodipine Survival Evaluation (PRAISE-2) echocardiographic study. 
  • Improved cardiac anthropomorphic phantom. 
  • Improved functional status and quality of life in prohibitive surgical risk patients with degenerative mitral regurgitation after transcatheter mitral valve repair. 
  • Improved surgical approach to left atrial appendage aneurysm. 
  • Improvement in structural and functional echocardiographic parameters during chronic heart failure therapy guided by natriuretic peptides: mechanistic insights from the ProBNP Outpatient Tailored Chronic Heart Failure (PROTECT) study. 
  • Improving maternal-infant bonding after prenatal diagnosis of CHD. 
  • Improving on the diagnostic characteristics of echocardiography for pulmonary hypertension. 
  • In vitro resistance to thrombin-induced platelet microbicidal protein in isolates of Staphylococcus aureus from endocarditis patients correlates with an intravascular device source. 
  • In vivo assessment of LV mass in mice using high-frequency cardiac ultrasound: necropsy validation. 
  • In vivo assessment of myocardial stiffness with acoustic radiation force impulse imaging. 
  • In vivo cardiac, acoustic-radiation-force-driven, shear wave velocimetry. 
  • Increased alpha2 subunit-associated AMPK activity and PRKAG2 cardiomyopathy. 
  • Increased myocardial contractility and enhanced exercise function in transgenic mice overexpressing either adenylyl cyclase 5 or 8. 
  • Increased prevalence of potential right-to-left shunting in children with sickle cell anaemia and stroke. 
  • Increasing cardiomyopathy screening in at-risk adult survivors of pediatric malignancies: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Independent association of cognitive dysfunction with cardiac hypertrophy irrespective of 24-h or sleep blood pressure in older hypertensives. 
  • Independent prognostic value of echocardiography and N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide in patients with heart failure. 
  • Indexes of von Willebrand factor as biomarkers of aortic stenosis severity (from the Biomarkers of Aortic Stenosis Severity [BASS] study). 
  • Indications for fetal echocardiography. 
  • Individualized thoracic aortic replacement for the aortopathy of biscuspid aortic valve disease. 
  • Infective Endocarditis. 
  • Infective endocarditis. 
  • Infective endocarditis. 
  • Infective endocarditis: diagnosis, antimicrobial therapy, and management of complications: a statement for healthcare professionals from the Committee on Rheumatic Fever, Endocarditis, and Kawasaki Disease, Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young, and the Councils on Clinical Cardiology, Stroke, and Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesia, American Heart Association: endorsed by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 
  • Inferior myocardial infarction complicated by mural thrombus and systemic embolization despite anticoagulation in progressive systemic sclerosis with normal coronary arteriograms. 
  • Influence of QRS infarct score and QRS duration prior to transcatheter aortic valve replacement on follow-up left ventricular end systolic volume in patients with new persistent left bundle branch block. 
  • Influence of diabetes mellitus on the clinical manifestations and prognosis of infective endocarditis: a report from the International Collaboration on Endocarditis-Merged Database. 
  • Influence of previous heart failure hospitalization on cardiovascular events in patients with reduced and preserved ejection fraction. 
  • Influence of renal function on the use of guideline-recommended therapies for patients with heart failure. 
  • Influences of ultrasonic machine settings, transducer frequency and placement of region of interest on the measurement of integrated backscatter and cyclic variation. 
  • Inhibition of betaARK1 restores impaired biochemical beta-adrenergic receptor responsiveness but does not rescue CREB(A133) induced cardiomyopathy. 
  • Initial Evaluation for Low-Pressure Cardiac Tamponade Using Focused Cardiac Ultrasound. 
  • Interatrial septal thickening preventing percutaneous mitral valve balloon valvuloplasty. 
  • Interatrial shunting in atrial septal aneurysm. 
  • Intermediate-term survival and functional results after arterial repair for transposition of the great arteries. 
  • Intermittent pressure overload triggers hypertrophy-independent cardiac dysfunction and vascular rarefaction. 
  • Interpretation of echocardiographic data: are physicians and sonographers violating the law? 
  • Intervention for Supravalvar Pulmonary Stenosis After the Arterial Switch Operation. 
  • Intracardiac acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) and shear wave imaging in pigs with focal infarctions. 
  • Intracardiac catheter 2-D arrays on a silicon substrate. 
  • Intracardiac echocardiography and acoustic radiation force impulse imaging of a dynamic ex vivo ovine heart model. 
  • Intracardiac echocardiography in congenital heart disease. 
  • Intracardiac echocardiography measurement of dynamic myocardial stiffness with shear wave velocimetry. 
  • Intraoperative assessment of left ventricular heterogeneity. 
  • Intraoperative contrast echocardiography. 
  • Intraoperative contrast echocardiography: a direct approach to measure regional myocardial perfusion. 
  • Intraoperative echocardiography during congenital heart operations: experience from 1,000 cases. 
  • Intraoperative echocardiography is indicated in high-risk coronary artery bypass grafting. 
  • Intraoperative perfusion contrast echocardiography. Initial experience during coronary artery bypass grafting. 
  • Intraoperative perfusion echocardiography. 
  • Intraoperative transesophageal Doppler color flow imaging used to guide patient selection and operative treatment of ischemic mitral regurgitation. 
  • Intraoperative transesophageal color flow mapping: initial experience. 
  • Intrapulmonary shunt confirmed by intracardiac echocardiography in the diagnosis of hepatopulmonary syndrome. 
  • Inverted left atrial appendage appearing as a left atrial mass with transesophageal echocardiography during cardiac surgery. 
  • Is chronically dysfunctional yet viable myocardium distal to a severe coronary stenosis hypoperfused? 
  • Is noninvasive testing for coronary artery disease accurate? 
  • Is the rate of congenital heart defects detected by fetal echocardiography among pregnancies conceived by in vitro fertilization really increased?: a case-historical control study. 
  • Is there a long-term predictive value of intraoperative low-dose dobutamine echocardiography in patients who have coronary artery bypass graft surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass? 
  • Justifying echocardiography: the role of outcomes research in evaluating a diagnostic test. 
  • Kruppel-like factor 15 is required for the cardiac adaptive response to fasting. 
  • LV thrombus detection by routine echocardiography: insights into performance characteristics using delayed enhancement CMR. 
  • Laboratory measures of exercise capacity and ventricular characteristics and function are weakly associated with functional health status after Fontan procedure. 
  • Large opaque hemithorax due to cardiomegaly and atelectasis. 
  • Late "adult form" scimitar syndrome presenting with "infant form" complications. 
  • Left atrial appendage anatomy and function: short term response to sustained atrial fibrillation. 
  • Left atrial myxoma. Is cardiac catheterization essential? 
  • Left bundle-branch block: the relationship between electrocardiogram electrical activation and echocardiography mechanical contraction. 
  • Left ventricular assessment in myocardial infarction: the VALIANT registry. 
  • Left ventricular assist device therapy in advanced heart failure: patient selection and outcomes. 
  • Left ventricular endocardial irregularity: evaluation using epicardial echocardiography. 
  • Left ventricular function is not impaired in weight-lifters who use anabolic steroids. 
  • Left ventricular geometry immediately following defibrillation: shock-induced relaxation. 
  • Left ventricular global longitudinal strain in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: outcomes following an acute heart failure hospitalization. 
  • Left ventricular hypertrophy in ascending aortic stenosis mice: anoikis and the progression to early failure. 
  • Left ventricular hypertrophy in athletes: morphologic features and clinical correlates. 
  • Left ventricular hypertrophy patterns and incidence of heart failure with preserved versus reduced ejection fraction. 
  • Left ventricular myocardial blood flow, metabolism, and effects of treatment with enalapril: further insights into the mechanisms of canine experimental pacing-induced heart failure. 
  • Left ventricular myocardial performance index change for detection of acute cellular rejection in pediatric heart transplantation. 
  • Left ventricular regional contraction abnormalities by echocardiographic speckle tracking in combined right bundle branch with left anterior fascicular block compared to left bundle branch block. 
  • Left ventricular shape, afterload and survival in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy. 
  • Left ventricular structure and function by echocardiography in ultraendurance athletes. 
  • Leukocyte iNOS is required for inflammation and pathological remodeling in ischemic heart failure. 
  • Lipomatous hypertrophy of the atrial septum: diagnosis by combined two-dimensional echocardiography and computerized tomography. 
  • Live high-frame-rate echocardiography. 
  • Long-term follow-up of patients with echocardiographically detected mitral anular calcium and comparison with age- and sex-matched control subjects. 
  • Longitudinal Hemodynamics of Transcatheter and Surgical Aortic Valves in the PARTNER Trial. 
  • Longitudinal tracking of left ventricular mass over the adult life course: clinical correlates of short- and long-term change in the framingham offspring study. 
  • Low diagnostic yield of elective coronary angiography. 
  • Maladaptive aortic properties after the Norwood procedure: An angiographic analysis of the Pediatric Heart Network Single Ventricle Reconstruction Trial. 
  • Management Considerations in Infective Endocarditis: A Review. 
  • Markers of Atherosclerosis, Clinical Characteristics, and Treatment Patterns in Heart Failure: A Case-Control Study of Middle-Aged Adult Heart Failure Patients in Rural Kenya. 
  • Means for load variation during echocardiographic assessment of the Frank-Starling relationship. 
  • Measurement of left ventricular volume in normal and volume-overloaded canine hearts. 
  • Measurement of myocardial perfusion by contrast echocardiography: application in the operating room. 
  • Medical screening participation in the childhood cancer survivor study. 
  • Metallothionein abrogates GTP cyclohydrolase I inhibition-induced cardiac contractile and morphological defects: role of mitochondrial biogenesis. 
  • Metastatic melanoma to the heart. 
  • Methods for the detection of altered beta-adrenergic receptor signaling pathways in hypertrophied hearts. 
  • Micro-CT imaging assessment of dobutamine-induced cardiac stress in rats. 
  • Mitral annular calcification and coarctation of aorta. 
  • Mitral flow propagation velocity identifies patients with abnormal diastolic function during coronary artery bypass graft surgery. 
  • Mitral gradients and frequency of recurrence of mitral regurgitation after ring annuloplasty for ischemic mitral regurgitation. 
  • Mitral stenosis: mitral dome excursion at M1 and the mitral opening snap--the concept of reciprocal heart sounds. 
  • Mitral valve prolapse. Disease or illness? 
  • Mitral valve prolapse. Two-dimensional echocardiographic and angiographic correlation. 
  • Molecular Mechanisms Linking Autonomic Dysfunction and Impaired Cardiac Contractility in Critical Illness. 
  • Mortality and rate of stroke or embolism in atrial fibrillation during long-term follow-up in the embolism in left atrial thrombi (ELAT) study. 
  • Multimodal Evaluation of Aortic Regurgitation After Mitral and Tricuspid Valve Repairs. 
  • Multiple Comorbidities and Response to Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy: MADIT-CRT Long-Term Follow-Up. 
  • Myocardial distribution of cardioplegic solution after retrograde delivery in patients undergoing cardiac surgical procedures. 
  • Myocarditis and long-term survival in peripartum cardiomyopathy. 
  • N-terminal prob-type natriuretic peptide is a marker of vascular remodelling and subclinical atherosclerosis in asymptomatic hypertensives. 
  • NT-proBNP levels, echocardiographic findings, and outcomes in breathless patients: results from the ProBNP Investigation of Dyspnoea in the Emergency Department (PRIDE) echocardiographic substudy. 
  • Natriuretic peptides and long-term mortality in patients with severe aortic stenosis. 
  • Neonatal congestive heart failure due to a subclavian artery to subclavian vein fistula diagnosed by noninvasive procedures. 
  • Neovascularization after transmyocardial laser revascularization in a model of chronic ischemia. 
  • New criteria for diagnosis of infective endocarditis: utilization of specific echocardiographic findings. Duke Endocarditis Service. 
  • Noncoronary cardiac abnormalities are associated with coronary artery dilation and with laboratory inflammatory markers in acute Kawasaki disease. 
  • Normal structures in the intracranial dural sinuses: delineation with 3D contrast-enhanced magnetization prepared rapid acquisition gradient-echo imaging sequence. 
  • Novel Heart Failure Biomarkers Predict Improvement of Mitral Regurgitation in Patients Receiving Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy-The BIOCRT Study. 
  • Novel Mitochondria-Targeting Peptide in Heart Failure Treatment: A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Elamipretide. 
  • Novel Rod Domain Duplication in Dystrophin Resulting in X-Linked Dilated Cardiomyopathy. 
  • Novel acoustic radiation force impulse imaging methods for visualization of rapidly moving tissue. 
  • Novel approach to the treatment of distal malperfusion secondary to ascending aortic dissection. 
  • Novel methodology for echocardiographic quantification of cardiac shape. 
  • Novel role of platelet reactivity in adverse left ventricular remodelling after ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: The REMODELING Trial. 
  • Nrg1 is an injury-induced cardiomyocyte mitogen for the endogenous heart regeneration program in zebrafish. 
  • Odontogenic Infection Complicated by Acute Descending Mediastinitis and Pericardial Effusion: A Life-Threatening Migration Path. 
  • Opacification and border delineation improvement in patients with suboptimal endocardial border definition in routine echocardiography: results of the Phase III Albunex Multicenter Trial. 
  • Optimal resources for ultrasonic examination of the heart. Echocardiography study group. 
  • Optimized multisite ventricular pacing in postoperative single-ventricle patients. 
  • Orthostatic effects on echocardiographic measures of ventricular function. 
  • Outcomes research review. 
  • Outcomes research review. 
  • Paravalvular aortic leak after transcatheter aortic valve replacement: current knowledge. 
  • Paravalvular regurgitation after transcatheter aortic valve replacement with the Edwards sapien valve in the PARTNER trial: characterizing patients and impact on outcomes. 
  • Partial and transitional atrioventricular septal defect outcomes. 
  • Patent ductus arteriosus in the elderly. 
  • Patent foramen ovale and decompression sickness in divers. 
  • Patterns and predictors of stress testing modality after percutaneous coronary stenting: data from the NCDR(®). 
  • Patterns of Mechanical Inefficiency in Pediatric Dilated Cardiomyopathy and Their Relation to Left Ventricular Function and Clinical Outcomes. 
  • Pediatric Appropriate Use Criteria Implementation Project: A Multicenter Outpatient Echocardiography Quality Initiative. 
  • Pentalogy of Cantrell with ectopia cordis totalis, total anomalous pulmonary venous connection, and tetralogy of Fallot: a case report and review of the literature. 
  • Performance of phonoelectrocardiographic left ventricular systolic time intervals and B-type natriuretic peptide levels in the diagnosis of left ventricular dysfunction. 
  • Performing Concomitant Tricuspid Valve Repair at the Time of Mitral Valve Operations Is Not Associated With Increased Operative Mortality. 
  • Periannular complications in infective endocarditis involving native aortic valves. 
  • Periannular complications in infective endocarditis involving prosthetic aortic valves. 
  • Pericardial effusion after intravenous recombinant tissue-type plasminogen activator for acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Pericardial effusion in sickle cell anemia: a rare problem. 
  • Pericardial synovial sarcoma: case report and literature review. 
  • Perioperative cardiac imaging. 
  • Peripartum cardiomyopathy presenting as an acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Persistent and reversible cardiac dysfunction among amateur marathon runners. 
  • Personalized management of atrial fibrillation: Proceedings from the fourth Atrial Fibrillation competence NETwork/European Heart Rhythm Association consensus conference. 
  • Phased array cardiac imaging: system operation, results and clinical role. 
  • Physician Attitudes toward the First Pediatric Appropriate Use Criteria and Engagement With Educational Intervention to Improve the Appropriateness of Outpatient Echocardiography. 
  • Physicians' recommendations to patients for use of antibiotic prophylaxis to prevent endocarditis. 
  • Pitfalls in quantitative contrast echocardiography: the steps to quantitation of perfusion. 
  • Poor correlation of estimated pulmonary artery systolic pressure between echocardiography and right heart catheterization in patients awaiting cardiac transplantation: results from the clinical arena. 
  • Predictors and outcomes of heart failure with mid-range ejection fraction. 
  • Predictors and progression of aortic stenosis in patients with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction. 
  • Predictors of Rapid Aortic Root Dilation and Referral for Aortic Surgery in Marfan Syndrome. 
  • Predictors of cardiac troponin release after mitral valve surgery. 
  • Predictors of coronary artery visualization in Kawasaki disease. 
  • Predictors of outcome of myocarditis. 
  • Preliminary report on cardiac dysfunction after isolated traumatic brain injury. 
  • Preload recruitable stroke work relationship in the right ventricle: simultaneous assessment using conductance catheter and sonomicrometry. 
  • Prenatal course of isolated muscular ventricular septal defects diagnosed only by color Doppler sonography: single-institution experience. 
  • Preoperative Echocardiographic Differences and Transplant Outcomes Among Patients Receiving Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Versus Liver Transplant Alone. 
  • President's message. Coping. 
  • Pressure-flow studies in man: the nature of the aortic flow pattern in both valvular mitral insufficiency and the prolapsing mitral valve syndrome. 
  • Prevalence and Outcomes of Left-Sided Valvular Heart Disease Associated With Chronic Kidney Disease. 
  • Prevalence and clinical characteristics of mental stress-induced myocardial ischemia in patients with coronary heart disease. 
  • Prevalence of infective endocarditis in patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia: the value of screening with echocardiography. 
  • Prevalence of multivalvular regurgitation in athletes. 
  • Prevalence, clinical correlates, and prognosis of discrete upper septal thickening on echocardiography: the Framingham Heart Study. 
  • Procainamide cardioversion of fetal supraventricular tachyarrhythmia. 
  • Prognosis of pulmonary arterial hypertension: ACCP evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. 
  • Prognostic Impact of Pulmonary Artery Pulsatility Index (PAPi) in Patients With Advanced Heart Failure: Insights From the ESCAPE Trial. 
  • Prognostic Value of Cardiac MR Imaging for Preoperative Assessment of Patients with Severe Functional Tricuspid Regurgitation. 
  • Prognostic usefulness of left ventricular thrombus by echocardiography in dilated cardiomyopathy in predicting stroke, transient ischemic attack, and death. 
  • Progressive cardiac dysfunction and fibrosis in the cardiomyopathic hamster and effects of growth hormone and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition. 
  • Prospective assessment after pediatric cardiac ablation: demographics, medical profiles, and initial outcomes. 
  • Prostacyclin protects against elevated blood pressure and cardiac fibrosis. 
  • Prosthetic mitral valve replacement: late complications after native valve preservation. 
  • Pulmonary Hypertension Is Associated With a Higher Risk of Heart Failure Hospitalization and Mortality in Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease: The Jackson Heart Study. 
  • Pulmonary Valve Replacement With a Trifecta Valve Is Associated With Reduced Transvalvular Gradient. 
  • Pulmonary atresia and ventricular septal defect with aortopulmonary collaterals in an adult dog. 
  • Pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum and hypoplastic right ventricle in an Arabian foal. 
  • Pulmonary function and adverse cardiovascular outcomes: Can cardiac function explain the link? 
  • Pulmonary hypertension and long-term mortality in aortic and mitral regurgitation. 
  • Pulmonary vein Doppler echocardiography after left atrial operation. 
  • Pulsed Doppler echocardiographic findings in total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage to the coronary sinus. 
  • Pulsus alternans induced by inferior vena caval occlusion in man. 
  • Pulsus alternans: a visual clue to a grave disorder! 
  • Pump speed modulations and sub-maximal exercise tolerance in left ventricular assist device recipients: A double-blind, randomized trial. 
  • QRS fusion complex analysis using wave interference to predict reverse remodeling during cardiac resynchronization therapy. 
  • Quality Improvement Implementation: Improving Reproducibility in the Echocardiography Laboratory. 
  • Quality in echocardiography: choosing to succeed. 
  • Quality in perioperative echocardiography: it's about time. 
  • Quantification and time course of microvascular obstruction by contrast-enhanced echocardiography and magnetic resonance imaging following acute myocardial infarction and reperfusion. 
  • Quantifying Myocardial Contractility Changes Using Ultrasound-Based Shear Wave Elastography. 
  • RV functional imaging: 3-D echo-derived dynamic geometry and flow field simulations. 
  • Racial differences in the prevalence of severe aortic stenosis. 
  • Radiofrequency catheter ablation for dyssynchrony-induced dilated cardiomyopathy in an infant. 
  • Radiographic and Clinical Predictors of Cardiac Dysfunction Following Isolated Traumatic Brain Injury. 
  • Ramping up evidence-based ventricular assist device care. 
  • Rapid regression of large cardiac rhabdomyomas in neonates after sirolimus therapy. 
  • Rapid ventricular filling in left ventricular hypertrophy: I. Physiologic hypertrophy. 
  • Rapid ventricular pacing of dogs to heart failure: biochemical and physiological studies. 
  • Rationale and design of a randomized controlled trial of allogeneic mesenchymal stem cells in patients with nonischemic cardiomyopathy. 
  • Real-time orthogonal mode scanning of the heart. I. System design. 
  • Real-time three-dimensional echocardiography for measurement of left ventricular volumes. 
  • Real-time transmission of pediatric echocardiograms using a single ISDN line. 
  • Real-time, three-dimensional echocardiography: feasibility and initial use. 
  • Real-time, volumetric echocardiography: usefulness of volumetric scanning for the assessment of cardiac volume and function. 
  • Recommendations and considerations related to preparticipation screening for cardiovascular abnormalities in competitive athletes: 2007 update: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association Council on Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Metabolism: endorsed by the American College of Cardiology Foundation. 
  • Recommendations for a standardized report for adult transthoracic echocardiography: a report from the American Society of Echocardiography's Nomenclature and Standards Committee and Task Force for a Standardized Echocardiography Report. 
  • Recommendations for evaluation of prosthetic valves with echocardiography and doppler ultrasound: a report From the American Society of Echocardiography's Guidelines and Standards Committee and the Task Force on Prosthetic Valves, developed in conjunction with the American College of Cardiology Cardiovascular Imaging Committee, Cardiac Imaging Committee of the American Heart Association, the European Association of Echocardiography, a registered branch of the European Society of Cardiology, the Japanese Society of Echocardiography and the Canadian Society of Echocardiography, endorsed by the American College of Cardiology Foundation, American Heart Association, European Association of Echocardiography, a registered branch of the European Society of Cardiology, the Japanese Society of Echocardiography, and Canadian Society of Echocardiography. 
  • Recommendations regarding quantitation in M-mode echocardiography: results of a survey of echocardiographic measurements. 
  • Reconsidering quality. 
  • Recovery from heart failure: structural and functional analysis in a canine model. 
  • Recovery of attenuated baroreflex sensitivity in conscious dogs after reversal of pacing induced heart failure. 
  • Recurrent inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the heart. 
  • Recurrent thrombosis of the superior vena cava associated with activated protein C resistance: imaging findings. 
  • Reduced left ventricular filling following blood volume extraction does not result in compensatory augmentation of cardiac mechanics. 
  • Reduction of myocardial ischemia during percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty with oxygenated Fluosol. 
  • Regional and global strain changes during biventricular pacing in a porcine model of acute left ventricular volume overload. 
  • Regional heterogeneity of human myocardial infarcts demonstrated by contrast-enhanced MRI. Potential mechanisms. 
  • Regional left ventricular function does not predict survival in ischaemic cardiomyopathy after cardiac surgery. 
  • Regional wall motion abnormalities after prolonged exercise in the normal left ventricle. 
  • Reimbursement update: looking toward the 1990s. 
  • Relation between pressure and volume unloading during ramp testing in patients supported with a continuous-flow left ventricular assist device. 
  • Relation of quantitative coronary lesion measurements to the development of exercise-induced ischemia assessed by exercise echocardiography. 
  • Relationship between accurate auscultation of a clinically useful third heart sound and level of experience. 
  • Relationship between exercise systolic blood pressure and left ventricular geometry in overweight, mildly hypertensive patients. 
  • Relationship of cardiac chamber volume to baroreflex activity in normal humans. 
  • Relationship of clinic, ambulatory, and laboratory stress blood pressure to left ventricular mass in overweight men and women with high blood pressure. 
  • Relationship of right- to left-sided ventricular filling pressures in advanced heart failure: insights from the ESCAPE trial. 
  • Relative wall thickness analysis by two-dimensional echocardiography. 
  • Reliability of echocardiographic measurements of left ventricular systolic function in potential pediatric heart transplant donors. 
  • Reliability of transthoracic echocardiogram interpretation in potential adult heart transplant donors. 
  • Reliability of two-dimensional echocardiography in the assessment of clinically significant abnormal hemidiaphragm motion in pediatric cardiothoracic patients: Comparison with fluoroscopy. 
  • Renal function, congestive heart failure, and amino-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide measurement: results from the ProBNP Investigation of Dyspnea in the Emergency Department (PRIDE) Study. 
  • Repeated echocardiography after the diagnosis of endocarditis: too much of a good thing? 
  • Reply: Echocardiographic Substrate for Biventricular Pacing. 
  • Repolarization variant vs acute pericarditis. A prospective electrocardiographic and echocardiographic evaluation. 
  • Report of the American Society of Echocardiography Committee on Nomenclature and Standards in Two-dimensional Echocardiography. 
  • Report of the Council on Scientific Affairs: ultrasonic imaging of the heart: report of the Ultrasonography Task Force. 
  • Reporting of preliminary data: time to take our sonographers "off the hook". 
  • Reproducibility of Left Ventricular Dimension Versus Area Versus Volume Measurements in Pediatric Patients With Dilated Cardiomyopathy. 
  • Response of atrial natriuretic factor to postural change in patients with heart failure versus subjects with normal hemodynamics. 
  • Resting pulmonary haemodynamics and shunting: a comparison of sea-level inhabitants to high altitude Sherpas. 
  • Retinal arteriolar narrowing and left ventricular hypertrophy in African Americans. the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study. 
  • Retrograde-delivered cardioplegia is not distributed equally to the right ventricular free wall and septum. 
  • Reversible cardiac dysfunction associated with pandemic 2009 influenza A(H1N1). 
  • Right and left ventricular performance during and after abdominal aortic aneurysm repair. 
  • Right atrial volume by cardiovascular magnetic resonance predicts mortality in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction. 
  • Right ventricular dysfunction and the incidence of implantable cardioverter-defibrillator therapies. 
  • Right ventricular echocardiographic indices predict poor outcomes in infants with persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn. 
  • Right ventricular isolation procedures for nonischemic ventricular tachycardia. 
  • Right ventricular volumes are rarely right and are right hard to do. 
  • Ring array transducers for real-time 3-D imaging of an atrial septal occluder. 
  • Risk factors for cerebrovascular events following fontan palliation in patients with a functional single ventricle. 
  • Risk factors, angiographic patterns, and outcomes in patients with ventricular septal defect complicating acute myocardial infarction. GUSTO-I (Global Utilization of Streptokinase and TPA for Occluded Coronary Arteries) Trial Investigators. 
  • Risk for valvular heart disease among users of fenfluramine and dexfenfluramine who underwent echocardiography before use of medication. 
  • Role of routine transthoracic echocardiography in evaluation and management of stroke. 
  • Routine cine-CMR for prosthesis-associated mitral regurgitation: a multicenter comparison to echocardiography. 
  • Routine laboratory results and thirty day and one-year mortality risk following hospitalization with acute decompensated heart failure. 
  • Routine use of intraoperative epicardial echocardiography and Doppler color flow imaging to guide and evaluate repair of congenital heart lesions. A prospective study. 
  • SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging for the assessment of left ventricular mechanical dyssynchrony. 
  • ST2: a novel biomarker for heart failure. 
  • Safety and Efficacy of Self-Expanding TAVR in Patients With Aortoventricular Angulation. 
  • Safety and efficacy of inferior vena caval occlusion to rapidly alter ventricular loading conditions in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy. 
  • Safety and efficacy of sonicated albumin microspheres in perfusion and vein graft patency assessments. 
  • Scar burden assessed by Selvester QRS score predicts prognosis, not CRT clinical benefit in preventing heart failure event and death: A MADIT-CRT sub-study. 
  • Screening for structural heart disease: time to stop listening and start looking. 
  • Screening, early detection, and diagnosis of pulmonary arterial hypertension: ACCP evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. 
  • Selective cardiac surveillance in patients with gynecologic cancer undergoing treatment with pegylated liposomal doxorubicin (PLD). 
  • Sequence of mitral valve motion and transmitral blood flow during manual cardiopulmonary resuscitation in dogs. 
  • Serial Echocardiographic Characteristics, Novel Biomarkers and Cachexia Development in Patients with Stable Chronic Heart Failure. 
  • Serial echocardiographic-Doppler assessment of left ventricular geometry and function in rats with pressure-overload hypertrophy. Chronic angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition attenuates the transition to heart failure. 
  • Serial measurement of galectin-3 in patients with chronic heart failure: results from the ProBNP Outpatient Tailored Chronic Heart Failure Therapy (PROTECT) study. 
  • Sex differences in clinical characteristics and outcomes after myocardial infarction: insights from the Valsartan in Acute Myocardial Infarction Trial (VALIANT). 
  • Sex-Specific Outcomes of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement With the SAPIEN 3 Valve: Insights From the PARTNER II S3 High-Risk and Intermediate-Risk Cohorts. 
  • Sex-related differences in outcomes after transcatheter or surgical aortic valve replacement in patients with severe aortic stenosis: Insights from the PARTNER Trial (Placement of Aortic Transcatheter Valve). 
  • Shear stress-associated acquired von Willebrand syndrome in patients with mitral regurgitation. 
  • Short-lag spatial coherence imaging of cardiac ultrasound data: initial clinical results. 
  • Sildenafil exposure and hemodynamic effect after Fontan surgery. 
  • Sildenafil preserves exercise capacity in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and right-sided ventricular dysfunction. 
  • Simple regional strain pattern analysis to predict response to cardiac resynchronization therapy: rationale, initial results, and advantages. 
  • Simplified peak power reserve in patients with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator and advanced heart failure. 
  • Simulation for Skills-based Education in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. 
  • Skeletal muscle grafts applied to the heart. A word of caution. 
  • Staging classification of aortic stenosis based on the extent of cardiac damage. 
  • Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia and endocarditis. 
  • Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in patients with permanent pacemakers or implantable cardioverter-defibrillators. 
  • Strain Echocardiography: The New Gold Standard for Imaging Ventricular Function? 
  • Strategy to identify subjects with diabetes mellitus more suitable for selective echocardiographic screening: The DAVID-Berg study. 
  • Stress echocardiography in women. 
  • Stress echocardiography, contrast echocardiography, and tissue characterization: applications for the future. 
  • Stress-induced blood pressure measurements predict left ventricular mass over three years among borderline hypertensive men. 
  • Structural cardiac changes in relation to 24-h ambulatory blood pressure levels in borderline hypertension. 
  • Structural remodelling in heart failure: gelatinase induction. 
  • Subclavian/Axillary Access for Self-Expanding Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Renders Equivalent Outcomes as Transfemoral. 
  • Subvalvular left ventricular pseudoaneurysm after mitral valve replacement: two-dimensional echocardiographic findings. 
  • Subxiphoid pericardiotomy in the diagnosis and management of large pericardial effusions associated with malignancy. 
  • Superior vena cava obstruction after extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. 
  • Surgical management of chronic pulmonary embolism. 
  • Survival to Stage II with Ventricular Dysfunction: Secondary Analysis of the Single Ventricle Reconstruction Trial. 
  • Survivor typologies predict medical surveillance participation: the childhood cancer survivor study. 
  • Systematic Evaluation of Endothelin 1 Measurement Relative to Traditional and Modern Biomarkers for Clinical Assessment and Prognosis in Patients With Chronic Systolic Heart Failure: Serial Measurement and Multimarker Testing. 
  • Takotsubo cardiomyopathy complicating thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair. 
  • Targeted Neonatal Echocardiography in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: practice guidelines and recommendations for training. Writing Group of the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) in collaboration with the European Association of Echocardiography (EAE) and the Association for European Pediatric Cardiologists (AEPC). 
  • Targeted inhibition of calcineurin in pressure-overload cardiac hypertrophy. Preservation of systolic function. 
  • Targeted neonatal echocardiography in the neonatal intensive care unit: practice guidelines and recommendations for training:. 
  • Task Force 1: preparticipation screening and diagnosis of cardiovascular disease in athletes. 
  • Technical performance score is associated with outcomes after the Norwood procedure. 
  • Techniques for real-time two-dimensional echocardiography. 
  • Temporal Changes in Left Ventricular Systolic Function and Use of Echocardiography in Adult Heart Donors. 
  • Temporal Trends in Disease Severity and Predicted Surgical Risk at the Time of Referral for Echocardiography in Patients Diagnosed with Aortic Stenosis. 
  • The Congenital Heart Surgeon's Society Complete Atrioventricular Septal Defect Cohort: Baseline, Preintervention Echocardiographic Characteristics. 
  • The Dynamics of Cardiovascular Biomarkers in non-Elite Marathon Runners. 
  • The MitraClip and survival in patients with mitral regurgitation at high risk for surgery: A propensity-matched comparison. 
  • The Ross procedure: shorter hospital stay, decreased morbidity, and cost effective. 
  • The Use of Echocardiography for Pediatric Patients Presenting with Syncope. 
  • The Value of Echocardiography in Unexpected Valve Disease in a Patient With Ischemic Cardiomyopathy: Less Is Not Always the Right Answer. 
  • The case of the disappearing myxoma. 
  • The comparative relationships between locations of the papillary muscles and electrophysiologic QRS axis in patients with atrioventricular septal defect and common as opposed to separate orifices in the valve guarding the common atrioventricular junction. 
  • The conserved phosphoinositide 3-kinase pathway determines heart size in mice. 
  • The effect of acute coronary perfusion change on cardiac function measured by Shear Wave Elasticity Imaging. 
  • The effects of acute afterload change on systolic ventricular function in conscious dogs with normal vs. failing hearts. 
  • The force-interval relationship of the left ventricle. 
  • The global health and economic burden of hospitalizations for heart failure: lessons learned from hospitalized heart failure registries. 
  • The hemodynamic simulation of mitral regurgitation in ventricular septal defect after myocardial infarction. 
  • The impact of a failing right heart in patients supported by intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation. 
  • The impact of echocardiographic results on treatment decisions for patients suspected of mitral valve prolapse. 
  • The impact of intraoperative echocardiography on clinical outcomes following adult cardiac surgery. 
  • The impact of pulmonary hypertension on morbidity and mortality following major lung resection. 
  • The influence of angiographically demonstrated coronary collaterals on the results of stress echocardiography. 
  • The influence of angle of insonation and target depth on speckle-tracking strain. 
  • The influence of collateral flow on the antegrade and retrograde distribution of cardioplegia in patients with an occluded right coronary artery. 
  • The influence of intravenous Albunex injections on pulmonary arterial pressure, gas exchange, and left ventricular peak intensity. 
  • The left atrium: a biomarker of chronic diastolic dysfunction and cardiovascular disease risk. 
  • The nitric oxide donor S-nitroso-N-acetylpenicillamine (SNAP) increases free radical generation and degrades left ventricular function after myocardial ischemia-reperfusion. 
  • The prevention, screening and treatment of congenital heart block from neonatal lupus: a survey of provider practices. 
  • The relationship between baseline and follow-up left ventricular ejection fraction with adverse events among primary prevention ICD patients. 
  • The relationship of patient medical and laboratory characteristics to changes in functional health status in children and adolescents after the Fontan procedure. 
  • The risk of stroke and death in patients with aortic and mitral valve endocarditis. 
  • The safety of contrast echocardiography: report of the Committee on Contrast Echocardiography for the American Society of Echocardiography. 
  • The silent ductus arteriosus. 
  • The usefulness of T-wave peak to T-wave end interval in identifying malignant arrhythmias in patients with Chagas disease. 
  • The utility of echocardiography in the diagnostic strategy of postinfarction ventricular septal rupture: a comparison of two-dimensional echocardiography versus Doppler color flow imaging. 
  • The variable natural history of idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy. 
  • The ventricular volume variability study of the Pediatric Heart Network: study design and impact of beat averaging and variable type on the reproducibility of echocardiographic measurements in children with chronic dilated cardiomyopathy. 
  • The year in cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia: selected highlights from 2013. 
  • Theory and operation of 2-D array piezoelectric micromachined ultrasound transducers. 
  • Therapeutic angiogenesis in chronically ischemic porcine myocardium: comparative effects of bFGF and VEGF. 
  • Three-dimensional echocardiographic measurement of left ventricular mass: comparison with magnetic resonance imaging and two-dimensional echocardiographic determinations in man. 
  • Three-year outcome after balloon aortic valvuloplasty. Insights into prognosis of valvular aortic stenosis. 
  • Thromboembolic complications after Fontan operations. 
  • Tissue harmonic imaging in echocardiography: better valve imaging, but at what cost? 
  • To my friend in echocardiography. 
  • Transapical Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Is Associated With Increased Cardiac Mortality in Patients With Left Ventricular Dysfunction: Insights From the PARTNER I Trial. 
  • Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in Patients With Aortic Stenosis and Mitral Regurgitation. 
  • Transcatheter aortic valve replacement for aortic bioprosthetic valve failure with cardiogenic shock. 
  • Transcatheter aortic-valve implantation for aortic stenosis in patients who cannot undergo surgery. 
  • Transesophageal echocardiographic observations in a patient undergoing closed-chest massage. 
  • Transesophageal echocardiography before cardioversion. 
  • Transesophageal echocardiography. When is it superior to standard imaging in clinical practice? 
  • Transgenic overexpression of the Ca2+-binding protein S100A1 in the heart leads to increased in vivo myocardial contractile performance. 
  • Transient hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in the newborn following multiple doses of antenatal corticosteroids. 
  • Transthoracic echocardiography in models of cardiac disease in the mouse. 
  • Treatment of established left ventricular hypertrophy with fibroblast growth factor receptor blockade in an animal model of CKD. 
  • Treatment of functional mitral valve regurgitation with the permanent percutaneous transvenous mitral annuloplasty system: results of the multicenter international Percutaneous Transvenous Mitral Annuloplasty System to Reduce Mitral Valve Regurgitation in Patients with Heart Failure trial. 
  • Treatment of patent ductus arteriosus with bidirectional flow in neonates. 
  • Treatment of sleep-disordered breathing in heart failure impacts cardiac remodeling: Insights from the CAT-HF Trial. 
  • Trends in fetal echocardiography and implications for clinical practice: 1985 to 2003. 
  • Tricuspid endocarditis in a drug addict; detection of tricuspid vegetations by two-dimensional echocardiography. 
  • Two Cases of Late Shone Syndrome With Pulmonary Hypertension: Heart-Lung Transplant or Valve Surgery? 
  • Two dimensional echocardiography in mitral, aortic and tricuspid valve prolapse. The clinical problem, cardiac nuclear imaging considerations and a proposed standard for diagnosis. 
  • Two-Dimensional Speckle Tracking Echocardiography Detects Subclinical Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction among Adult Survivors of Childhood, Adolescent, and Young Adult Cancer. 
  • Two-dimensional and Doppler echocardiographic determinants of the natural history of mitral valve narrowing in patients with rheumatic mitral stenosis: implications for follow-up. 
  • Two-dimensional and Doppler-echocardiographic and cardiac catheterization correlates of survival in primary pulmonary hypertension. 
  • Two-dimensional echocardiographic assessment of mitral stenosis. 
  • Two-dimensional echocardiographic assessment of vegetative endocarditis. 
  • Two-dimensional echocardiographic findings in atrial septal defect. 
  • Two-dimensional echocardiographic identification of sinus of Valsalva-right heart fistula due to infective endocarditis. 
  • Two-dimensional echocardiography in arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia. 
  • Two-dimensional echocardiography. 
  • US national survey of physician practices for the secondary and tertiary prevention of ischemic stroke. Design, service availability, and common practices. 
  • Ultrasound assessment of left ventricular function following aortocoronary saphenous vein bypass grafting. 
  • Ultrasound bioeffects and regulatory issues: an introduction for the echocardiographer. 
  • Ultrasound diagnosis of pseudoaneurysm and contiguous ventricular septal defect complicating inferior myocardial infarction. 
  • Ultrasound shear wave elasticity imaging quantifies coronary perfusion pressure effect on cardiac compliance. 
  • Uncorrected Tetralogy of Fallot, Biventricular Dysfunction, and a Large Pericardial Effusion. 
  • Underutilization of echocardiography for patent foramen ovale in divers with serious decompression sickness. 
  • Unreliability of hemodynamic indexes of left ventricular size during cardiac surgery. 
  • Update on infective endocarditis. 
  • Upright paradoxical posterior wall movement in mitral valve prolapse. 
  • Use of a simple criteria set for guiding echocardiography in nosocomial Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia. 
  • Use of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging to evaluate cardiac structure, function and fibrosis in children with infantile Pompe disease on enzyme replacement therapy. 
  • Use of contrast echocardiography for evaluation of right ventricular hemodynamics in the presence of ventricular septal defects. 
  • Use of the peak troponin value to differentiate myocardial infarction from reversible neurogenic left ventricular dysfunction associated with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. 
  • Use of transoesophageal echocardiography to detect left atrial thrombi before percutaneous balloon dilatation of the mitral valve: a prospective study. 
  • Usefulness of Von Willebrand Factor Activity Indexes to Predict Therapeutic Response in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. 
  • Usefulness of dobutamine echocardiography for detecting restenosis after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty. 
  • Usefulness of hand-carried ultrasound to predict elevated left ventricular filling pressure. 
  • Usefulness of myocardial viability or ischemia in predicting long-term survival for patients with severe left ventricular dysfunction undergoing revascularization. 
  • Usefulness of soluble concentrations of interleukin family member ST2 as predictor of mortality in patients with acutely decompensated heart failure relative to left ventricular ejection fraction. 
  • Utility of Functional Hemodynamics and Echocardiography to Aid Diagnosis and Management of Shock. 
  • Utility of echocardiography in the management of patients with penetrating missile wounds of the heart. 
  • Utility of fetal echocardiogram in high-risk patients. 
  • Utility of tissue Doppler and strain echocardiography in arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia/cardiomyopathy. 
  • Validation of in vivo two-dimensional echocardiographic dimension measurements using myocardial mass estimates in dogs. 
  • Valve hemodynamic deterioration and cardiovascular outcomes in TAVR: A report from the STS/ACC TVT Registry. 
  • Valve-in-Valve Transcatheter Valve Implantation in the Nonaortic Position. 
  • Variability of M-mode versus two-dimensional echocardiography measurements in children with dilated cardiomyopathy. 
  • Variability of global left ventricular deformation analysis using vendor dependent and independent two-dimensional speckle-tracking software in adults. 
  • Variable responses of mitral valve motion and flow in systemic hypertension and in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy. 
  • Variations in common carotid artery intima-media thickness during the cardiac cycle: implications for cardiovascular risk assessment. 
  • Vascular hypertrophy is an early finding in essential hypertension and is related to arterial pressure waveform contour. 
  • Vasodilatory state of decompensated cirrhosis: relation to hepatic dysfunction, ascites, and vasoactive substances. 
  • Ventricular-Arterial Coupling in Breast Cancer Patients After Treatment With Anthracycline-Containing Adjuvant Chemotherapy. 
  • Very-long-chain acyl-coenzyme a dehydrogenase deficiency in mice. 
  • Viability assessment by delayed enhancement cardiovascular magnetic resonance: will low-dose dobutamine dull the shine? 
  • Vigilance in Mitral Regurgitation: Variation and the Way Forward. 
  • Visualization of discrete microinfarction after percutaneous coronary intervention associated with mild creatine kinase-MB elevation. 
  • Volume-mediated pulmonary responses in liver transplant candidates. 
  • Walking the walk…or achieving quality is harder than it seems. 
  • What are the top 10 reasons not to use a contrast? 
  • Worsening in Longitudinal Strain and Strain Rate Anticipates Development of Pediatric Transplant Coronary Artery Vasculopathy as Soon as One Year Following Transplant. 
  • [A case of direct right pulmonary artery-left atrium fistula]. 
  • cTnT1, a cardiac troponin T isoform, decreases myofilament tension and affects the left ventricular pressure waveform. 
  • von Willebrand Factor Abnormalities and Heyde Syndrome in Dysfunctional Heart Valve Prostheses. 
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  • Alexander, John Hunter Peel, Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Cardiology
  • Barker, Piers Christopher Andrew, Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Cardiology
  • Brennan, J. Matthew, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Cardiology
  • Camitta, Michael G.W., Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine, Cardiology
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Richard Sean Stack, M.D. / Guidant Foundation Professor of Cardiology, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology
  • Swaminathan, Madhav, Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, Cardiothoracic