Frank A Flachskampf

..Furthermore, the advent of real-time 3D echo with its ability to gather the full 3D data set within seconds promises to widen the potential applications of 3D echo, for example, including stress echo...

..Pharmacological treatment has limitations resulting from drug side effects, costs, and patient compliance. Thus, we investigated whether traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture is able to lower blood pressure...

..Truly asymptomatic patients with preserved left ventricular function should be followed conservatively...

..Aortic intramural hematoma is often a precursor of classic dissection or accompanies it and can also be diagnosed by TEE, although the diagnosis is frequently difficult...

..However, lack of measurement standardization and small numbers of cardiomyopathy patients examined by Doppler, together with difficulty in defining reliable normalcy ranges, still hamper widespread clinical use of this new tool...

..Dissection of the ascending aorta, which has an extremely high mortality and necessitates emergency surgery, is diagnosed quickly and accurately by TEE...

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..If possible, valve repair is preferred over valve replacement to better preserve left ventricular function and to avoid the need for postoperative anticoagulation (except if atrial fibrillation persists)...

..A set of cross-sections, defined by anatomic landmarks, has been compiled, which can be systematically sought, evaluated, and modified according to the clinical question in order to extract the maximal information from TEE...

..To determine whether Doppler based myocardial tissue velocity imaging (TVI) or strain rate imaging (SRI) is more accurate in detecting stress-induced ischaemia during dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE)...

..Due to rapid evolution of these techniques, a final assessment of their potential is not possible yet...

..The most rational component image analysis for 3DE volumetry in the in vitro model uses short-axis slices with a thickness of 15 mm...

..We set out to analyze whether there are gender differences in real-world contemporary treatment and outcomes of STEMI...

..However, PSS can also occur in healthy subjects. We, therefore, investigated the occurrence and characteristics of PSS in control subjects and patients, and how to distinguish normality from disease...

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..Very high negative predictive values favour the potential of the method in excluding the diagnosis. Further need of research work may be encouraged by those findings...

..However, given the wide range of contraindications and the long duration of treatment, eligibility and practicality issues have not been addressed systematically...

..Strain-rate imaging (SRI) by tissue Doppler may objectively analyze regional myocardial function. This study investigated SRI markers of stress-induced ischemia and analyzed their applicability in a clinical setting...

..Data on contemporary real-world outcomes of interventional revascularization in patients > or = 75 y of age with ST elevation infarction (STEMI) are limited...

..Speckle tracking echocardiography (STE) was applied to evaluate longitudinal, radial, and circumferential function in patients with aortic stenosis (AS) before, within 1 week, and 6 months after aortic valve replacement (AVR)...

..86) and a modest direct effect of pulse length (r(2) = 0.57, p < 10(-5)). Thus, thrombolytic efficiency of US depends directly on duration, intensity, duty cycle and pulse length and inversely, on frequency...

..This document reviews the technical aspects on how to perform quantitative chamber measurements of morphology and function, which is a component of every complete echocardiographic examination...

..This study was designed to investigate whether contrast-enhanced multidetector spiral CT (MDCT) permits assessment of remodeling in coronary atherosclerotic lesions...

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..Diagnostic contrast echocardiography may induce endothelial disintegrations dependent on US output as well as on CA concentrations. This aspect might be helpful in further in vivo series on local drug delivery...

..Radial access avoids bleeding and ischemia that may complicate retrograde or crossover access to the iliac artery...

..A base-to-apex time delay in diastolic lengthening could be seen both in early diastole and at atrial contraction...

..Kissing balloon angioplasty reduces the rate of transient side-branch occlusion compared to sequential PTCA but does not improve immediate or long-term outcome compared to sequential PTCA for stenting of bifurcation lesions...

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..The updated strategies for the diagnosis and exclusion of HFNEF are useful not only for individual patient management but also for patient recruitment in future clinical trials exploring therapies for HFNEF...

..The goal of this study was to determine systolic function of the LV in male and female patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy and to relate it to wall thickness and wall stress, respectively...

..The goal of this study was to determine regional systolic function of the left ventricle in male and female patients with hypertensive heart disease...

..838). These data confirmed high-resolution real-time MCE as a rational tool for assessing myocardial perfusion of Wistar rats. It may therefore be a useful diagnostic tool for in-vivo cardiovascular research in small animals...

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..We compared the accuracy of both methods to detect significant CAD in a direct comparison...