Echocardiographic assessments, especially right heart metrics, are crucial for predicting mortality in PAH patients. Key indicators like tricuspid regurgitation and right ventricular function ...

Although contrast agents have an essential role in non-invasive imaging techniques, potential side effects limit their use. For example, both low- and iso-osmolar iodinated contrast media used in ...

The study focuses on establishing normative values for left ventricular (LV) and left atrial (LA) size and function using three-dimensional echocardiography (3DE) among healthy Han Chinese adults.

Focused cardiac ultrasonography is a practical, transthoracic, qualitative or semiquantitative means of assessing cardiac size, structure, and function that is performed and interpreted by the ...

NEW ORLEANS, LA—A detailed look at the echocardiographic results from the COAPT trial has failed to pinpoint any baseline echocardiographic factors that could help valve teams decide which patients ...

Background: There is concern about whether cardiac damage occurs as a result of prolonged strenuous exercise. Objective: To investigate whether competing in a triathlon is associated with cardiac ...

1 Department of Radiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands 2 Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands 3 Julius Center for ...

Doxorubicin causes cardiac injury and cardiomyopathy in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Measuring biomarkers during therapy might help individualize treatment by immediately ...

Focused cardiac ultrasonography is a point-of-care, qualitative or semiquantitative means of assessing cardiac size, structure, and function that is performed and interpreted by the clinician at the ...