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January 1, 2018
Varying degrees of heart failure is common in infants with complex single ventricular heart disease. Sometimes the heart failure is progressive without a clear etiology and unresponsive to intense pharmacotherapy creating a critical management dilemma. The ...
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January 1, 2018
Echocardiography is the most common method for the detection of cardiac masses. Masses can be described as intracavitary (within chambers or great vessels, and attached to chamber walls, valves or great vessels) or intramural (located within the muscular s ...
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January 1, 2018
Infective endocarditis (IE) is an infection of the endocardial lining of the heart, the heart valves, intracardiac devices or prosthetic valves. The infection is mainly localized on the valvular structures, generally on the flow side of the valves or at lo ...
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January 1, 2018
The mitral valve is the most easily recognized moving structure in the heart. Because of its rapid back and forth motion, the mitral valve serves as “home base” for almost all echocardiographic examinations. When the transducer is directed posteriorly from ...
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January 1, 2018
Measurement of myocardial global longitudinal strain (GLS) is no longer a research tool. Rather, GLS is now used for risk assessment and management of patients with a wide variety of clinical disorders. GLS is clearly a useful supplement to routine quantit ...
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January 1, 2018
There are two major functional applications for speckle tracked strain used in the study of cardiac function: global and regional. This chapter is about regional functional strain assessment. The basics of ultrasound speckle tracking and strain are discuss ...
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December 1, 2009
The mitral valve is the most easily recognized moving structure in the heart. Because of its rapid to and fro motion, the mitral valve serves as home base for almost all echocardiographic examinations. When the transducer is directed posteriorly from the c ...
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