European Journal of Echocardiography

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Yanina Zócalo, Daniel Bia, Walter Reyes-Caorsi, Juan González-Moreno, and Ricardo L. Armentano

Arterial load reduction after cardiac resynchronization therapy: why does it change?
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on April 27, 2009
Eur J Echocardiogr 2009 10: 461-462; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jep042 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Francesco Zanon, Silvio Aggio, and Giorgio Corbucci

Arterial load reduction after cardiac resynchronization therapy: why does it change?: reply
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on May 4, 2009
Eur J Echocardiogr 2009 10: 462-463; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jep043 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Claudia Stöllberger and Josef Finsterer

Cardiac and neurological implications in beta-thalassemia with left ventricular hypertrabeculation/non-compaction
Eur J Echocardiogr 2009 10: 463-464; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jep051 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Matthew Luckie, Bruce Irwin, Satheesh Nair, John Greenwood, and Rajdeep Khattar

Cardiac and neurological implications in beta-thalassaemia with left ventricular hypertrabeculation/non-compaction: reply
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on May 9, 2009
Eur J Echocardiogr 2009 10: 464; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jep050 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

GUEST EDITORIAL

Luigi P. Badano

Contrast enhanced real-time three-dimensional echocardiography for quantification of myocardial perfusion: a step forward
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on March 27, 2009
Eur J Echocardiogr 2009 10: 465-466; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jep032 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

REVIEW PAPERS

Get checked abstract Steven Droogmans, Dirk Kerkhove, Bernard Cosyns, and Guy Van Camp

Role of echocardiography in toxic heart valvulopathy
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on March 26, 2009
Eur J Echocardiogr 2009 10: 467-476; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jep023 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Luigi P. Badano, Eustachio Agricola, Leopoldo Perez de Isla, Pasquale Gianfagna, and Jose Louis Zamorano

Evaluation of the tricuspid valve morphology and function by transthoracic real-time three-dimensional echocardiography
Eur J Echocardiogr 2009 10: 477-484; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jep044 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CLINICAL/ORIGINAL PAPERS

Get checked abstract Federico Veronesi, Enrico G. Caiani, Eran Toledo, Cristiana Corsi, Keith A. Collins, Georgeanne Lammertin, Claudio Lamberti, Roberto M. Lang, and Victor Mor-Avi

Semi-automated analysis of dynamic changes in myocardial contrast from real-time three-dimensional echocardiographic images as a basis for volumetric quantification of myocardial perfusion
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on September 1, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2009 10: 485-490; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen209 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Pasquale Innelli, Roberta Esposito, Marinella Olibet, Stefano Nistri, and Maurizio Galderisi

The impact of ageing on right ventricular longitudinal function in healthy subjects: a pulsed tissue Doppler study
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on December 10, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2009 10: 491-498; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen313 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Smita R. Jategaonkar, Werner Scholtz, Thomas Butz, Nikola Bogunovic, Lothar Faber, and Dieter Horstkotte

Two-dimensional strain and strain rate imaging of the right ventricle in adult patients before and after percutaneous closure of atrial septal defects
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on January 20, 2009
Eur J Echocardiogr 2009 10: 499-502; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen315 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Lene A. Rustad, Brage H. Amundsen, Stig A. Slørdahl, and Asbjørn Støylen

Upright bicycle exercise echocardiography in patients with myocardial infarction shows lack of diastolic, but not systolic, reserve: a tissue Doppler study
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on December 6, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2009 10: 503-508; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen312 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Matthew Luckie, Bruce Irwin, Satheesh Nair, John Greenwood, and Rajdeep Khattar

Left ventricular non-compaction in identical twins with thalassaemia and cardiac iron overload
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on December 17, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2009 10: 509-512; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen319 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract P. Gazzaniga, E. Buscarini, G. Leandro, L. Reduzzi, M. Grosso, G. Pongiglione, C. Pedrinazzi, L. Lanzarini, V. Portugalli, P. Blotta, P. Forner, E. Boccardi, F. Pagella, G. Manfredi, C. Olivieri, A. Zambelli, C. Danesino, and G. Inama

Contrast echocardiography for pulmonary arteriovenous malformations screening: does any bubble matter?
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on December 17, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2009 10: 513-518; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen317 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Harry Pavlopoulos and Petros Nihoyannopoulos

Pulse pressure/stroke volume: a surrogate index of arterial stiffness and the relation to segmental relaxation and longitudinal systolic deformation in hypertensive disease
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on December 24, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2009 10: 519-526; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen324 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Laura Stefani, Alessio De Luca, Nicola Maffulli, Roberto Mercuri, Gabriele Innocenti, Irina Suliman, Loira Toncelli, Maria Concetta Vono, Brunello Cappelli, Stefano Pedri, Gianni Pedrizzetti, and Giorgio Galanti

Speckle tracking for left ventricle performance in young athletes with bicuspid aortic valve and mild aortic regurgitation
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on January 27, 2009
Eur J Echocardiogr 2009 10: 527-531; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen332 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Steffen P. Schoen, Till F. Zimmermann, Charlotte Rosenberger, Gesa Elmer, Dirk Stolte, Carsten Wunderlich, and Ruth H. Strasser

Nomograms for severity of aortic valve stenosis using peak aortic valve pressure gradient and left ventricular ejection fraction
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on January 20, 2009
Eur J Echocardiogr 2009 10: 532-536; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen333 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Luigi P. Badano, Gaetano Nucifora, Savina Stacul, Pasquale Gianfagna, Marcello Pericoli, Lorenzo Del Mestre, Simonetta Buiese, Rossana Compassi, Giuseppe Tonutti, Luigi Di Benedetto, and Paolo M. Fioretti

Improved workflow, sonographer productivity, and cost-effectiveness of echocardiographic service for inpatients by using miniaturized systems
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on February 27, 2009
Eur J Echocardiogr 2009 10: 537-542; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen341 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Joseph A. Lodato, Qi Ling Cao, Lynn Weinert, Lissa Sugeng, John Lopez, Roberto M. Lang, and Ziyad M. Hijazi

Feasibility of real-time three-dimensional transoesophageal echocardiography for guidance of percutaneous atrial septal defect closure
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on January 29, 2009
Eur J Echocardiogr 2009 10: 543-548; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen337 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Francesco Natale, Michele A. Tedesco, Rosa Mocerino, Vincenzo de Simone, Giovanni M. Di Marco, Luigi Aronne, Maria Credendino, Carmine Siniscalchi, Paolo Calabrò, Maurizio Cotrufo, and Raffaele Calabrò

Visceral adiposity and arterial stiffness: echocardiographic epicardial fat thickness reflects, better than waist circumference, carotid arterial stiffness in a large population of hypertensives
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on February 10, 2009
Eur J Echocardiogr 2009 10: 549-555; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jep002 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Falah Aboukhoudir, Sofiene Rekik, Stephane Andrieu, Saida Cheggour, Michel Pansieri, Marc Metge, Pierre Barnay, Jean Paul Faugier, Sylvie Schouvey, Gonzalo Quaino, Clement Unal, Stéphanie Gonzalez, and Jean Lou Hirsch

Coronary artery spasm and dobutamine stress echocardiography
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on February 6, 2009
Eur J Echocardiogr 2009 10: 556-561; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jep004 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Frank L. Dini, Fabio Lattanzi, Paolo Fontanive, Gian Marco Rosa, and Salvatore Mario De Tommasi

Value of tissue Doppler imaging for risk stratification of patients with chronic systolic heart failure with or without restrictive mitral flow
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on February 27, 2009
Eur J Echocardiogr 2009 10: 562-566; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jep001 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CASE REPORTS

Get checked abstract Piotr Hoffman, Maria Kordybach, Jacek Rózanski, Mariusz Kusmierczyk, and Miroslaw Kowalski

Anterior leaflet on the leash: unusual cause of congenital severe mitral regurgitation
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on February 26, 2009
Eur J Echocardiogr 2009 10: 567-568; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jep016 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Dan G. Halpern, Gila Perk, Carlos Ruiz, Nino Marino, and Itzhak Kronzon

Percutaneous closure of a post-myocardial infarction ventricular septal defect guided by real-time three-dimensional echocardiography
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on February 27, 2009
Eur J Echocardiogr 2009 10: 569-571; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jep021 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Amer M. Johri, Kibar Yared, Ronen Durst, Roberto J. Cubeddu, Igor F. Palacios, Michael H. Picard, and Jonathan Passeri

Three-dimensional echocardiography-guided repair of severe paravalvular regurgitation in a bioprosthetic and mechanical mitral valve
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on March 8, 2009
Eur J Echocardiogr 2009 10: 572-575; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jep019 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract C. Hammerstingl, N. Werner, and G. Nickenig

Symptomatic paravalvular leakage after mechanical aortic valve replacement in a critically ill patient: why not just "plug" the hole?
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on March 2, 2009
Eur J Echocardiogr 2009 10: 576-578; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jep018 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Réza Dadkhah, Alain Friart, Jean-Louis Leclerc, Mickaël Moreels, David Haberman, and Fabienne Lienart

Uncommon acquired Gerbode defect (left ventricular to right atrial communication) following a tricuspid annuloplasty without concomitant mitral surgery
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on April 21, 2009
Eur J Echocardiogr 2009 10: 579-581; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jep035 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

ELECTRONIC PAPERS

Get checked abstract Ignatios Ikonomidis, Costas Papadopoulos, Panayota Flevari, Ioannis Paraskevaidis, John Lekakis, and Dimitrios T. Kremastinos

Left atrial thrombus after biventricular pacemaker implantation
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on March 23, 2009
Eur J Echocardiogr 2009 10: 582-584; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jep022 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Vasco Dias, Sofia Cabral, Catarina Gomes, Nuno Antunes, Cristiana Sousa, Miguel Vieira, Ana Meireles, Filomena Oliveira, and Severo Torres

Intramyocardial dissecting haematoma: a rare complication of acute myocardial infarction
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on March 31, 2009
Eur J Echocardiogr 2009 10: 585-587; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jep027 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Mustafa T. Agac, Zeydin Acar, Turhan Turan, Bilgehan Karadag, Selim Kul, and Hakan Erkan

Blood cyst of tricuspid valve: an incidental finding in a patient with ventricular septal defect
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on April 2, 2009
Eur J Echocardiogr 2009 10: 588-589; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jep029 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Christian Cadeddu, Silvio Nocco, Emanuele Secci, Martino Deidda, Raimondo Pirisi, and Giuseppe Mercuro

Echocardiographic accidental finding of asymptomatic cardiac and pulmonary embolism caused by cement leakage after percutaneous vertebroplasty
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on March 27, 2009
Eur J Echocardiogr 2009 10: 590-592; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jep030 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Jens Robert, Martin Brack, Stephan Hottinger, Alexander Kadner, and Hans-Rudolf Baur

A rare case of left ventricular cardiac myxoma with obstruction of the left ventricular outflow tract and atypical involvement of the mitral valve
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on March 27, 2009
Eur J Echocardiogr 2009 10: 593-595; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jep031 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Georg Goliasch, Franz Wiesbauer, Helmut Pesau, and Thomas Binder

A journey straight through the heart: the story of a bullet
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on April 2, 2009
Eur J Echocardiogr 2009 10: 596-598; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jep034 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

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