A 39-year-old G3P3 female presented with abrupt onset dyspnoea of one month duration. She was markedly symptomatic when lying supine and resorted to prone sleeping. Chest X-ray reported as cardiomegaly.
Chathuri Liyanapathirana +4 more
doaj +1 more source
Critical Care Transthoracic Echocardiography
A 70-year-old man with end-stage heart failure and a continuous-flow left ventricular assist device received repeated electrical discharges from his biventricular implantable cardiac defibrillator.
Peter Mark Schulman MD +5 more
doaj +1 more source
Current clinical applications of transthoracic three-dimensional echocardiography [PDF]
The advent of three-dimensional echocardiography (3DE) has significantly improved the impact of non-invasive imaging on our understanding and management of cardiac diseases in clinical practice.
Lucia Dal, Bianco +7 more
core +1 more source
Evaluation of Fluid Resuscitation in Shocked Patients by Electrical Cardiometry in Comparison to Transthoracic Echocardiography [PDF]
Background: Fluid responsiveness assessment is essential in managing shocked patients to optimize oxygen delivery and avoid fluid overload. Transthoracic echocardiography is a validated but operator-dependent method for stroke volume measurement ...
Ahmed Abdel Raouf +3 more
doaj +1 more source
Background: The correlation between normal cardiac chamber linear dimensions measured during retrospective coronary computed tomographic angiography as compared to transthoracic echocardiography using the American Society of Echocardiography guidelines ...
Michael Rose +7 more
doaj +1 more source
Transthoracic echocardiography provides important long-term prognostic information in selected patients undergoing endovascular abdominal aortic repair [PDF]
BACKGROUND: The value of performing transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) as part of the clinical assessment of patients awaiting endovascular repair of the abdominal aorta is little evaluated. We aimed to estimate the prognostic importance of information
Gravina, A +15 more
core +1 more source
We report a case of a 52-year-old patient with dilated cardiomyopathy who presented with worsening heart failure. Two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography and real-time three dimensional transthoracic echocardiography showed severe dilated cardiac ...
Zhang Qing, Li Hui, Bai Wenjuan, Rao Li
doaj +1 more source
Anomalous Origin of Right Coronary Artery Above the Sinus of Valsalva: Observation by Transthoracic Echocardiography [PDF]
We describe a 60-year-old woman with an anomalous right coronary artery originating from the tubular portion of the ascending aorta.
Alpaslan, Mete, Onrat, Ersel
core +1 more source
Diagnosis of infective endocarditis with cardiac CT in an adult
The diagnosis of infective endocarditis is based on modified Duke's criteria, which includes clinical, biological, and echocardiographic findings. However, computed tomography (CT) has not been mentioned as a diagnostic tool in the criteria.
Kotaro Ouchi, MD, PhD +6 more
doaj +1 more source
Noninvasive assessment of coronary flow reserve in the left anterior descending artery by transthoracic echocardiography before and after stenting [PDF]
Background: Noninvasive assessment of coronary flow reserve in the left anterior descending artery (LAD) by transthoracic Doppler echocardiography (TTDE) has been already validated as a new method for determining the degree of stenosis over the proximal ...
Tarcha, Walid +5 more
core +2 more sources

