European Journal of Echocardiography

GUEST EDITORIAL

M. Louis Handoko and Walter J. Paulus

Polishing the diastolic dysfunction measurement stick
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on June 11, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 575-577; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen181 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

EXPERIMENTAL PAPER

Get checked abstract Alessandro Giardini and Theresa A. Tacy

Non-invasive estimation of pressure gradients in regurgitant jets: an overdue consideration
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on May 7, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 578-584; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen156 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

IMAGE SECTION

Get checked abstract Il-Suk Sohn, Eun-Sun Jin, Jin-Man Cho, Chong-Jin Kim, Jong-Hoa Bae, Ju-Young Moon, Sang-Ho Lee, and Myung-Jae Kim

Bloodletting-induced cardiomyopathy: reversible cardiac hypertrophy in severe chronic anaemia from long-term bloodletting with cupping
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on June 23, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 585-586; doi:10.1016/j.euje.2007.06.010 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CLINICAL/ORIGINAL PAPERS

Get checked abstract Carolina A. Garza, Patricia A. Pellikka, Virend K. Somers, Michael G. Sarr, James B. Seward, Maria L. Collazo-Clavell, Elise Oehler, and Francisco Lopez-Jimenez

Major weight loss prevents long-term left atrial enlargement in patients with morbid and extreme obesity
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on April 4, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 587-593; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen117 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Marjorie Richardson-Lobbedez, Sylvestre Maréchaux, Christophe Bauters, Julie Darchis, Jean Luc Auffray, Jean Jacques Bauchart, Jean Marc Aubert, Thierry H. LeJemtel, Martine Lesenne, Eric Van Belle, Patrick Goldstein, Philippe Asseman, and Pierre V. Ennezat

Prognostic importance of tissue Doppler-derived diastolic function in patients presenting with acute coronary syndrome: a bedside echocardiographic study
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on February 7, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 594-598; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen005 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Narayanan Namboodiri, Othayoth Shajeem, Jaganmohan A. Tharakan, R. Sankarkumar, Thomas Titus, Ajitkumar Valaparambil, Sivasubramonian Sivasankaran, Kavassery Mahadevan Krishnamoorthy, Sivadasan Pillai Harikrishnan, and Santosh Kumar Dora

Doppler echocardiographic assessment of TTK Chitra prosthetic heart valve in the mitral position
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on February 12, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 599-604; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen001 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Anatoli Kiotsekoglou, Abhay Bajpai, Bart H. Bijnens, Venedictos Kapetanakis, George Athanassopoulos, James C. Moggridge, Mike J. Mullen, Dariush K. Nassiri, John Camm, George R. Sutherland, and Anne H. Child

Early impairment of left ventricular long-axis systolic function demonstrated by reduced atrioventricular plane displacement in patients with Marfan syndrome
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on February 22, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 605-613; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen003 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Tara Bharucha, Siew Yen Ho, and Joseph J. Vettukattil

Multiplanar review analysis of three-dimensional echocardiographic datasets gives new insights into the morphology of subaortic stenosis
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on February 20, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 614-620; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen008 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Laurent Lepage, Marie Christine Frangie, Delphine Detaint, Eric Brochet, Joelle Guegueniat, Gerard Partouche, Bernard Iung, Alec Vahanian, and David Messika-Zeitoun

Nitrous oxide inhalation for transoesophageal echocardiography: an alternative to benzodiazepine sedation?
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on February 6, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 621-624; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen014 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Stephen P. Hoole, Tze V. Liew, James Boyd, Francis C. Wells, and Rosemary A. Rusk

Transthoracic real-time three-dimensional echocardiography offers additional value in the assessment of mitral valve morphology and area following mitral valve repair
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on March 21, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 625-630; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen006 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Sandro Gelsomino, Roberto Lorusso, Carlo Rostagno, Sabina Caciolli, Giuseppe Billè, Giuseppe De Cicco, Stefano Romagnoli, Cristina Porciani, Pierluigi Stefàno, and Gian Franco Gensini

Prognostic value of Doppler-derived mitral deceleration time on left ventricular reverse remodelling after undersized mitral annuloplasty
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on March 11, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 631-640; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen034 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Jesper Kjaergaard, Bente Krogsgaard Schaadt, Jens Otto Lund, and Christian Hassager

Quantification of right ventricular function in acute pulmonary embolism: relation to extent of pulmonary perfusion defects
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on February 19, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 641-645; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen033 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract J. Thambyrajah, K. Vijayalakshmi, R.J. Graham, A.J. Turley, M.A. de Belder, and M.J. Stewart

Strain rate imaging pre- and post-percutaneous coronary intervention: a potential role in the objective detection of ischaemia in exercise stress echocardiography
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on February 12, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 646-654; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen035 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Xinsheng Huang, Yigao Huang, Tao Huang, Wenhui Huang, and Zhendong Huang

Individual pulmonary vein imaging by transthoracic echocardiography: an inadequate traditional interpretation
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on February 19, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 655-660; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen032 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Johan M. van Rooijen and Lambert F.M. van den Merkhof

Left atrial impression: a sign of extra-cardiac pathology
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on April 26, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 661-664; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen031 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract K. Zywica, R. Jenni, P.A. Pellikka, A. Faeh-Gunz, B. Seifert, and C.H. Attenhofer Jost

Dynamic left ventricular outflow tract obstruction evoked by exercise echocardiography: prevalence and predictive factors in a prospective study
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on April 23, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 665-671; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen070 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Tim J.F. ten Cate, Mike G. Scheffer, George R. Sutherland, J. Fred Verzijlbergen, and Norbert M. van Hemel

Right ventricular outflow and apical pacing comparably worsen the echocardioghraphic normal left ventricle
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on March 29, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 672-677; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen108 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Minna M. Kylmälä, Margareta K. Antila, Sari M. Kivistö, Kirsi Lauerma, Paula H. Vesterinen, Helena A. Hänninen, Lauri Toivonen, and Mika K. Laine

Tissue Doppler strain-mapping in the assessment of the extent of chronic myocardial infarction: validation using magnetic resonance imaging
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on March 20, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 678-684; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen127 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract William T. Emery, Irfan Jadavji, Jonathan B. Choy, and Richard A. Lawrance

Investigating the European Society of Cardiology Diastology Guidelines in a practical scenario
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on April 23, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 685-691; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen137 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CASE REPORTS

Get checked abstract Alexander Hansen and Helmut Kuecherer

Caught in the act: entrapped embolus through a patent foramen ovale
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on February 19, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 692-693; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen013 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract R. Shakur, A. Ryding, J. Timperley, H. Becher, and P. Leeson

Late emergence of platypnea orthodeoxia: Chiari network and atrial septal hypertrophy demonstrated with transoesophageal echocardiography
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on February 20, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 694-696; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen015 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Subodh B. Joshi, Walid Ahmar, Geoff Lee, and Anuradha Aggarwal

Fabry's disease presenting as ventricular tachycardia and Left Ventricular ‘Hypertrophy’
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on April 4, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 697-699; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen132 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Nicola D’Amato, Paolo Colonna, Paolino Brindicci, Maria Grazia Campagna, Claudio Petrillo, Aldo Cafarelli, and Carlo D’Agostino

Tako-Tsubo syndrome in a pregnant woman
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on April 4, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 700-703; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen135 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Loukianos S. Rallidis, Costas Papadopoulos, John Kanakakis, Ioannis Paraskevaidis, and Dimitrios T. Kremastinos

‘Obstruction alternans’ of a Sorin tilting disc prosthetic mitral valve: a case of emergency action
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on April 14, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 704-706; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen138 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract H. Seyfert, V. Bohlscheid, and B. Bauer

Double atrial septum with persistent interatrial space and transient ischaemic attack
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on May 13, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 707-708; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen161 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Marek Konka, Beata Kusmierczyk-Droszcz, Olgierd Wozniak, and Piotr Hoffman

Aortic regurgitation and unusual diastolic mitral regurgitation
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on May 13, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 709-711; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen162 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

ELECTRONIC PAPERS

Get checked abstract Sérgio Nabais, Nuno Salomé, Aida Brandão, Alda Simões, Jorge Marques, João Costa, Luís Basto, António Costeira, and Adelino Correia

Coexistence of coronary cameral fistulae and cor triatriatum sinister in an elderly patient
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on April 27, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 712-715; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen140 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Rui Almeida, Teresa Pinho, Nuno P. Oliveira, Jorge Almeida, Filipe Macedo, António R. Sousa, and M. Júlia Maciel

A case of acute heart failure due to giant aortic pseudoaneurysm with fistulization to the right ventricle after a modified Bentall operation
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on April 21, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 716-719; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen144 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Michael S. Kim, Andrew J. Klein, Bertron M. Groves, Robert A. Quaife, and Ernesto E. Salcedo

Left ventricular outflow tract obstruction in the presence of asymmetric septal hypertrophy and accessory mitral valve tissue treated with alcohol septal ablation
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on April 14, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 720-724; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen152 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract T. Butz, H.K. Schmidt, D. Fassbender, H. Esdorn, M. Wiemer, D. Horstkotte, and L. Faber

Echo-guided percutaneous coil embolization of a symptomatic massive metastasis of a renal cell carcinoma in the right ventricular outflow tract
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on April 21, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 725-727; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen153 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract André L. Dabarian, Charles Mady, Carlos E. Rochitte, Afonso A. Shiozaki, Pedro A. Lemos, and Vera Maria Cury Salemi

An unusual case of angina pectoris: a patient with isolated non-compaction of the left ventricular myocardium
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on April 28, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 728-730; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen151 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Ashraf M. Anwar, Jackie S. McGhie, Folkert J. Meijboom, and Folkert J. ten Cate

Double orifice mitral valve by real-time three-dimensional echocardiography
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on May 1, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 731-732; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen149 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Hyun Suk Yang, Shantanu Sengupta, Matt M. Umland, Krishnaswamy Chandrasekaran, and Farouk Mookadam

Primary cardiac angiosarcoma evaluated with contrast two-dimensional and real-time three-dimensional echocardiography
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on May 29, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 733-738; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen164 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Ole A. Breithardt, Dieter Ropers, Theresa Seeliger, Axel Schmid, Johannes von Erffa, Christoph Garlichs, Werner G. Daniel, and Stephan Achenbach

A heart within the heart: double-chambered left ventricle
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on May 7, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 739-741; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen158 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Vanessa Marchal and Muriel Sprynger

Horton's aortitis
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on May 13, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 742-744; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen157 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Sherif Moustafa, Claude Sauvé, Pierre Pagé, and Karim Serri

Incidental finding of a papillary fibroelastoma of the mitral valve chordae
European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published on May 20, 2008
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 745-746; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen171 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

CORRIGENDUM

Caroline Weytjens, Philippe R. Franken, Jan D'Hooge, Steven Droogmans, Bernard Cosyns, T. Lahoutte, and Guy Van Camp

Doppler myocardial imaging in the diagnosis of early systolic left ventricular dysfunction in diabetic rats
Eur J Echocardiogr 2008 9: 747; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen216 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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