New Echocardiographic Findings Correlate with Intramyocardial Inflammation in Endomyocardial Biopsies of Patients with Acute Myocarditis and Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy by Felicitas Escher, Mario Kasner, Uwe Kühl, Johannes Heymer, Ursula Wilkenshoff, Carsten Tschöpe, Heinz-Peter Schultheiss

“…Speckle tracking echocardiography with accurate assessments of regional contractility could have an outstanding importance for the diagnosis. …”
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Prognostic Value of Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Catheterization for Coronary Artery Disease by Hidekatsu Fukuta, Nobuyuki Ohte, Kazuaki Wakami, Toshihiko Goto, Tomomitsu Tani, Genjiro Kimura

“…In conclusion, LV diastolic dysfunction, particularly impaired LV relaxation assessed by both cardiac catheterization and Doppler echocardiography, is independently associated with increased risk for cardiac death or cardiovascular hospitalization in patients with known or suspected CAD.…”
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Microtransesophageal Echocardiographic Guidance during Percutaneous Interatrial Septal Closure without General Anaesthesia by Roel J. R. Snijder, Laura E. Renes, Martin J. Swaans, Maarten Jan Suttorp, Jurrien M. Ten Berg, Martijn C. Post

“…To study the safety and efficacy of microtransesophageal echocardiography (micro-TEE) and TEE during percutaneous atrial septal defect (ASD) and patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure. …”
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Cost-Effectiveness of the Prenatal Detection of Congenital Heart Diseases: A Systematic Literature Review by Darío Londoño Trujillo, Paula A. Castro García, Kristian K. Rojas López, Karen J. Moreno-Medina, María T. Dominguez Torres, Rodolfo J. Dennis Verano, Nestor F. Sandoval Reyes

“…**Conclusion:** Most studies recommend implementing obstetric ultrasonography screening, without routine fetal echocardiography, for detecting congenital heart diseases.…”
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Layer-Specific Strain Analysis in Patients with Dilated Cardiomyopathy by Despina-Manuela Toader, Alina Paraschiv, Georgică Târtea, Gabriela Tiucu, Mihai Chițu, Raluca Stănișor, Oana Mirea

“…Conventional and two-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography (2D-STE) were conducted in dilated cardiomyopathy patients with a compensated phase of heart failure before discharge. …”
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Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Causing Nonbacterial Thrombotic Endocarditis by Nitish Batra, Sourya Acharya, Sunil Kumar, Samarth Shukla, Anusha Gupta

“…Vegetations on two-dimensional echocardiography and negative blood cultures suggest the disease. …”
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Incidental Cardiac Lipoma in a Pediatric Patient by Sebahattin Memis, Mehmet Semih Demirtas

“…In this case, we planned to present a 13-year-old male patient who was diagnosed with cardiac lipoma, had echocardiography follow-up at regular intervals, and was treated symptomatically. …”
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Vena Cava Superior Syndrome Related to Right Heart Invasion of an Unresectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Geert Maleux, Werner Budts, Vincent Vandecaveye

“…Computed tomography and transthoracic echocardiography demonstrated a large tumoral mass lesion extending from the left liver lobe into the inferior vena cava right atrium and right ventricle. …”
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Paradoxical Embolization in an Adult Cystic Fibrosis Patient by Nabil M Al Lawati, Pearce Wilcox

“…She made a full neurological recovery. Echocardiography and prophylactic closure of the PFO, when present, as primary prevention for paradoxical embolism may be warranted in cystic fibrosis patients before placement of an IVAD.…”
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Pulmonary Edema in Myasthenic Crisis by Uttara Swati Anand, Stalin Viswanathan, Jayanthi Arulneyam

“…She developed pulmonary edema following intravenous immunoglobulin administration and had ischemic changes in ECG and left ventricular dysfunction on echocardiography. She improved with diuretics, dobutamine, and fluid restriction alone. …”
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Rare Presentation of Gerbode Defect in a 4-Month-Old Nigerian and a Review of the Literature by Barbara E. Otaigbe, Douye Orubide

“…We report a 4 month old Nigerian child who presented with poor feeding and failure to thrive and whose echocardiography confirmed an indirect Gerbode with a direct left ventricle to right atrial shunt due to adherent leaflets of the tricuspid valve. …”
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Luteolin Pretreatment Ameliorates Myocardial Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury by lncRNA-JPX/miR-146b Axis by Tongda Xu, Yuanyuan Zhang, Gege Liao, Haochen Xuan, Jie Yin, Jieli Bao, Yang Liu, Dongye Li

“…Apoptosis was analyzed by Annexin V-APC/7-AAD dualstaining, Hoechst 33342 staining, as well as flow cytometry. Animal echocardiography was used to measure cardiac function (ejection fraction (EF) and fractional shortening (FS) indicators). …”
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Early detection of myocarditis caused by immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy with nivolumab and ipilimumab for advanced recurrent renal cell carcinoma by Maki Todo, Yodo Gatate, Shintaro Nakano, Go Kaneko, Masayuki Hagiwara, Takayuki Takahashi, Yuta Umezawa, Genji Ueda, Shiho Ishikawa, Yoshinori Makino, Masafumi Oyama, Suguru Shirotake

“…At our institution, we measure biomarkers, such as high-sensitivity Troponin (hsTn), and perform electrocardiograms (ECGs) and echocardiography before and every month after the initiation of this therapy, and the findings obtained and patients’ symptoms are continuously monitored by physicians and pharmacists. …”
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A Fortified Method to Screen and Detect Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Asymptomatic Hypertensive Adults: A Korean Retrospective, Cross-Sectional Study by Hyo Eun Park, Sung-Bin Chon, Sang Hoon Na, Heesun Lee, Su-Yeon Choi

“…This retrospective cross-sectional study included asymptomatic hypertensive individuals aged ≥40 y who underwent voluntary checkups including echocardiography. Independent variables to explain LVH (LV mass index>115 g/m2 for men and >95 g/m2 for women calculated on echocardiography) were chosen among Sokolow-Lyon voltage amplitude (SLVA), CTR and cardiovascular risk factors by multiple logistic regression analysis. …”
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A Real-Time End-to-End Framework with a Stacked Model Using Ultrasound Video for Cardiac Septal Defect Decision-Making by Siti Nurmaini, Ria Nova, Ade Iriani Sapitri, Muhammad Naufal Rachmatullah, Bambang Tutuko, Firdaus Firdaus, Annisa Darmawahyuni, Anggun Islami, Satria Mandala, Radiyati Umi Partan, Akhiar Wista Arum, Rio Bastian

“…Echocardiography is the gold standard for the comprehensive diagnosis of cardiac septal defects (CSDs). …”
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Transcatheter Atrial Septal Defect Closure in Children with and without Fluoroscopy: A Comparison by S. Ackermann, D. Quandt, N. Hagenbuch, O. Niesse, M. Christmann, W. Knirsch, O. Kretschmar

“…Patients were analysed in two groups [1: intraprocedural fluoroscopy ± transoesophageal echocardiography (TOE) guidance; 2: TOE guidance alone]. …”
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Infarct‐like myocarditis with coronary vasculitis and aneurysm formation caused by Epstein–Barr virus infection by Cristina Chimenti, Romina Verardo, Claudia Grande, Marco Francone, Andrea Frustaci

“…Two‐dimensional echocardiography showed normal LV dimension with reduced LV contractility (LVEF = 40%) with mild pericardial effusion. …”
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Primitive Tumour of the Pulmonary Valve: Discussion of the Differential Diagnosis by A. Hannecart, D. Ndjekembo-Shango, F. Vallot, O. Simonet, M. De Kock

“…A transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) revealed a mass on the pulmonary valve. …”
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Superior vena cava obstruction following pericardial effusion absorption in the presence of a pericardial teratoma: a case report by Kai Guo, Hui Wang

“…In this paper, we report a rare case of intrapericardial teratoma that was incidentally discovered in an infant with superior vena cava obstruction following pericardial effusion absorption. Echocardiography and thoracic computed tomography angiography revealed that the intrapericardial mass obviously suppressed the superior vena cava. …”
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Pancreatitis with Electrocardiographic Changes Mimicking Acute Myocardial Infarction by Paul Khairy, Pierre Marsolais

“…No cardiac pathology was demonstrated by echocardiography or coronary angiography. A review of the literature and possible pathophysiological mechanisms of electrocardiographic changes in acute pancreatitis, such as metabolic abnormalities, hemodynamic instability, vasopressors, pericarditis, myocarditis, a cardiobiliary reflex, exacerbation of underlying cardiac pathology, coagulopathy and coronary vasospasm, are discussed.…”
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