European Journal of Echocardiography

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Fidel Manuel Cáceres-Loriga

Prosthetic valve thrombosis: is it time for a new consensus conference?
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on March 27, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 413-414; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen113 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

EAE GUIDELINES

Get checked abstract Rosa Sicari, Petros Nihoyannopoulos, Arturo Evangelista, Jaroslav Kasprzak, Patrizio Lancellotti, Don Poldermans, Jen-Uwe Voigt, and Jose Luis Zamorano on behalf of the European Association of Echocardiography

Stress echocardiography expert consensus statement: European Association of Echocardiography (EAE) (a registered branch of the ESC)
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 415-437; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen175 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Arturo Evangelista, Frank Flachskampf, Patrizio Lancellotti, Luigi Badano, Rio Aguilar, Mark Monaghan, José Zamorano, and Petros Nihoyannopoulos on behalf of the European Association of Echocardiography

European Association of Echocardiography recommendations for standardization of performance, digital storage and reporting of echocardiographic studies
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 438-448; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen174 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

REVIEW PAPER

Get checked abstract Patrick Meimoun and Christophe Tribouilloy

Non-invasive assessment of coronary flow and coronary flow reserve by transthoracic Doppler echocardiography: a magic tool for the real world
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on February 19, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 449-457; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen004 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CLINICAL/ORIGINAL PAPERS

Get checked abstract Witold Streb, Maciej Marciniak, Piet Claus, Anna Marciniak, Myles McLaughlin, Jan D'hooge, Frank E. Rademakers, Bart Bijnens, and George R. Sutherland

Full or pressure limited reperfusion of an acute myocardial infarct results in a different wall thickness and deformation of the distal myocardium – implications for clinical reperfusion strategies
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on August 23, 2007
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 458-465; doi:10.1016/j.euje.2007.06.007 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Bruno Pinamonti, Andrea Di Lenarda, Gaetano Nucifora, Dario Gregori, Andrea Perkan, and Gianfranco Sinagra

Incremental prognostic value of restrictive filling pattern in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: a Doppler echocardiographic study
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on August 31, 2007
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 466-471; doi:10.1016/j.euje.2007.06.008 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Ergün Baris Kaya, Lale Tokgözoglu, Kudret Aytemir, Ugur Kocabas, Erol Tülümen, Onur Sinan Deveci, Sedat Köse, Giray Kabakçi, Nasih Nazli, Hilmi Özkutlu, and Ali Oto

Atrial myocardial deformation properties are temporarily reduced after cardioversion for atrial fibrillation and correlate well with left atrial appendage function
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on September 10, 2007
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 472-477; doi:10.1016/j.euje.2007.07.003 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract G.J. Morgan, F. Casey, B. Craig, and A. Sands

Assessing ASDs prior to device closure using 3D echocardiography. Just pretty pictures or a useful clinical tool?
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on September 24, 2007
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 478-482; doi:10.1016/j.euje.2007.07.001 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Annemieke H.M. Jansen, Frank Bracke, Jan melle van Dantzig, Kathinka H. Peels, Johannes C. Post, Harrie C.M. van den Bosch, Berry van Gelder, Albert Meijer, Hendrikus H.M. Korsten, Jolanda de Vries, and Norbert M. van Hemel

The influence of myocardial scar and dyssynchrony on reverse remodeling in cardiac resynchronization therapy
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on September 10, 2007
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 483-488; doi:10.1016/j.euje.2007.07.002 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Annemieke Jansen, Massimo Mischi, Frank Bracke, Jan melle van Dantzig, Kathinka Peels, Evert Lamfers, Norbert van Hemel, and Hendrikus Korsten

Novel ultrasound contrast agent dilution method for the assessment of ventricular ejection fraction
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on October 2, 2007
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 489-493; doi:10.1016/j.euje.2007.07.007 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Marcus Hacker, Hans X. Hoyer, Christopher Uebleis, Peter Ueberfuhr, Stefan Foerster, Christian La Fougere, and Hans-Ulrich Stempfle

Quantitative assessment of cardiac allograft vasculopathy by real-time myocardial contrast echocardiography: a comparison with conventional echocardiographic analyses and [Tc99m]-sestamibi SPECT
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on October 9, 2007
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 494-500; doi:10.1016/j.euje.2007.08.006 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Aigul Baltabaeva, Maciej Marciniak, Bart Bijnens, James Moggridge, Feng J. He, Tarek F. Antonios, Graham A. MacGregor, and George R. Sutherland

Regional left ventricular deformation and geometry analysis provides insights in myocardial remodelling in mild to moderate hypertension
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on October 2, 2007
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 501-508; doi:10.1016/j.euje.2007.08.004 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Eva Mandysová, Tomás Mráz, Milos Táborsky, and Petr Niederle

Reproducibility of tissue Doppler parameters of asynchrony in patients with advanced LV dysfunction
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on October 2, 2007
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 509-515; doi:10.1016/j.euje.2007.08.005 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Yelda Tayyareci, Yilmaz Nisanci, Berrin Umman, Aytac Oncul, Selen Yurdakul, Ibrahim Altun, Sabahattin Umman, and Zehra Bugra

Early detection of right ventricular systolic dysfunction by using myocardial acceleration during isovolumic contraction in patients with mitral stenosis
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on October 8, 2007
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 516-521; doi:10.1016/j.euje.2007.08.007 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract F. Bukachi, A. Waldenström, S. Mörner, P. Lindqvist, M.Y. Henein, and E. Kazzam

Age dependency in the timing of mitral annular motion in relation to ventricular filling in healthy subjects: Umeå General Population Heart Study
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on March 14, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 522-529; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen124 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Abdenasser Drighil, John E. Madias, James W. Mathewson, Hanane El Mosalami, Nadia El Badaoui, Beenyouness Ramdani, and Ahmed Bennis

Haemodialysis: effects of acute decrease in preload on tissue Doppler imaging indices of systolic and diastolic function of the left and right ventricles
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on March 27, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 530-535; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen125 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Abdenasser Drighil, Ahmed Bennis, James W. Mathewson, Patrizio Lancelotti, and Paulo Rocha

Immediate impact of successful percutaneous mitral valve commissurotomy on right ventricular function
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on March 30, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 536-541; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen126 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Alan Batterham, Rob Shave, David Oxborough, Greg Whyte, and Keith George

Longitudinal plane colour tissue-Doppler myocardial velocities and their association with left ventricular length, volume, and mass in humans
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on March 11, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 542-546; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen114 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Nicolas Bréchot, Laetitia Gambotti, Stéphane Lafitte, and Raymond Roudaut

Usefulness of right ventricular isovolumic relaxation time in predicting systolic pulmonary artery pressure
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on March 14, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 547-554; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen121 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Svein A. Aase, Hans Torp, and Asbjørn Støylen

Aortic valve closure: relation to tissue velocities by Doppler and speckle tracking in normal subjects
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on March 20, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 555-559; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen120 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CASE REPORTS

Get checked abstract Madhulatha Reddy, Deepak Thatai, Juan Bernal, Jyoti Pradhan, and Luis Afonso

Apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: potential utility of Strain imaging
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on May 1, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 560-562; doi:10.1016/j.euje.2007.02.004 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract S.V. Parasramka, S. Ghotkar, J. Kendall, and B. M. Fabri

Use of transoesophageal echocardiography in management of penetrating cardiac injury
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on May 2, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 563-564; doi:10.1016/j.euje.2007.03.035 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Taiyeb M. Khumri, Joseph B. Thibodeau, and Michael L. Main

Transesophageal echocardiographic diagnosis of left atrial appendage occluder device infection
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on August 7, 2007
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 565-566; doi:10.1016/j.euje.2007.06.005 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Daniel Saura, Pablo Peñafiel, Ana Morales, Laura Albert, Francisco Martínez, Gonzalo de la Morena, and Mariano Valdés-Chávarri

Transient global amnesia after dobutamine—atropine stress echocardiography
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on August 16, 2007
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 567-568; doi:10.1016/j.euje.2007.06.016 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Rachel Levine Berger and Itzhak Kronzon

The vanishing subaortic membrane
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 569-571; doi:10.1016/j.euje.2007.08.008 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Ali Reza Moaref, Reza Mollazadeh, Ahmad Ali Amirghofran, and Mehra Modjallal

Thrombus entrapped in tricuspid chordae masquerading as tumour
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on February 22, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 572-574; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen007 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

ELECTRONIC PAPERS

Get checked abstract Sridevi R. Pitta, Ashok Kondur, and Luis Afonso

Quadricuspid aortic valve associated with unruptured sinus of Valsalva aneurysm
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on February 19, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 575-576; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen036 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Timothy Robinson, Jane Lynch, and Ever Grech

Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma causing extrinsic pulmonary artery compression
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on February 7, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 577-578; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen069 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract J.P. Smedema

Tissue Doppler imaging in cardiac sarcoidosis
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on February 19, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 579-580; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen073 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Ergün Baris Kaya, Ugur Kocabas, Kudret Aytemir, and Lale Tokgözoglu

Successful fibrinolytic treatment in an old patient with acute aortic prosthetic thrombosis
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on February 13, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 581-583; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen072 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Jurren M. van Opstal, Danielle V.J. Zaar, and Emile C. Cheriex

Apical rotating flow and right ventricular cerebral compression
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on February 19, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 584-585; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen071 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Ashok Kondur, Sridevi Pitta, and Luis Afonso

Incremental utility of real-time three-dimensional echocardiography in the diagnosis and preoperative assessment of cleft mitral valve in adults
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on March 5, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 586-588; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen109 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Johannes Wacker, George Djaiani, Rita Katznelson, and Jacek Karski

External compression of superior vena cava after the replacement of ascending aorta
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on May 1, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 589-590; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen116 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Rebecca McCall, Paul W. Stoodley, David A.B. Richards, and Liza Thomas

Restrictive cardiomyopathy versus constrictive pericarditis: making the distinction using tissue Doppler imaging
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on March 30, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 591-594; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen112 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Juan José González-Ferrer, Manolo Carnero, Vera Lennie Labayru, Leopoldo Pérez de Isla, and José Luís Zamorano

Left atrial myxoma prolapsing through the foramen ovale
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on March 11, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 595-597; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen111 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Mohammad Abdullah, Keith Pearce, Nick Palmer, and Adrian Chenzbraun

Double orifice mitral valve with dysplastic tricuspid valve and intact interatrial septum: a three-dimensional echocardiographic study
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on March 20, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 598-599; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen128 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

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