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Noninvasive assessment of left ventricular contractility by pacemaker stress echocardiographyTonino Bombardini
CNR, Institute of Clinical Physiology, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy
Eur J Heart Fail 7:173-81. 2005..01). CONCLUSIONS: Noninvasive pacemaker stress echocardiography (PASE) is a simple and efficient option to assess left ventricular (LV) contractility in patients with permanent pacemaker...
Recruitment of aged donor heart with pharmacological stress echo. A case reportGiorgio Arpesella
Department of Surgery and Transplants, Univeresity of Bologna, Italy
Cardiovasc Ultrasound 4:3. 2006..A simpler way to screen aged potential donor hearts for initial cardiomyopathy and functionally significant coronary artery disease should be stress echocardiography...
Negative stress echo: further prognostic stratification with assessment of pressure-volume relationT Bombardini
CNR, Institute of Clinical Physiology, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy
Int J Cardiol 126:258-67. 2008....
Post-exercise contractility, diastolic function, and pressure: operator-independent sensor-based intelligent monitoring for heart failure telemedicineTonino Bombardini
Department of Echocardiography Lab, Institute of Clinical Physiology, National Council of Research, Pisa, Italy
Cardiovasc Ultrasound 7:21. 2009..Recently, a cutaneous force-frequency relation recording system has been validated based on heart sound amplitude and timing variations at increasing heart rates...
Arterial pressure changes monitoring with a new precordial noninvasive sensorTonino Bombardini
Department of Echocardiography Lab, Fondazione Gabriele Monasterio, Italian National Research Council, Pisa, Italy
Cardiovasc Ultrasound 6:41. 2008..The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between second heart sound amplitude variations at increasing heart rates and hemodynamic changes...
Diastolic time - frequency relation in the stress echo lab: filling timing and flow at different heart ratesTonino Bombardini
Department of Echocardiography, Institute of Clinical Physiology, National Council of Research, Pisa, Italy
Cardiovasc Ultrasound 6:15. 2008..A cutaneous force-frequency relation recording system based on first heart sound amplitude vibrations has been recently validated. Second heart sound can be simultaneously recorded in order to quantify both systole and diastole duration...
Myocardial contractility in the echo lab: molecular, cellular and pathophysiological basisTonino Bombardini
Department of Echocardiography, Institute of Clinical Physiology, National Council of Research, Pisa, Italy
Cardiovasc Ultrasound 3:27. 2005....
Cardiac reflections and natural vibrations: force-frequency relation recording system in the stress echo labTonino Bombardini
Department of Echocardiography Echo Lab, IFC, CNR, Pisa, Italy
Cardiovasc Ultrasound 5:42. 2007..Ideally, the noninvasive, imaging independent, objective assessment of FFR would greatly enhance its practical appeal...
Force-frequency relationship in the echocardiography laboratory: a noninvasive assessment of Bowditch treppe?Tonino Bombardini
Institute of Clinical Physiology, Via Moruzzi I, 56124 Pisa, Italy
J Am Soc Echocardiogr 16:646-55. 2003..Estimation of contractility of the left ventricle is an important, and as yet elusive, goal with noninvasive techniques...
Prognostic value of left-ventricular and peripheral vascular performance in patients with dilated cardiomyopathyTonino Bombardini
Consiglio Nazionale Ricerche CNR, Institute of Clinical Physiology, Pisa, Italy
J Nucl Cardiol 15:353-62. 2008..Our aim was to assess the relative role of systolic versus diastolic dysfunction in modulating cardiac output in patients with idiopathic left-ventricular (LV) dysfunction...
Transthoracic sensor for noninvasive assessment of left ventricular contractility: validation in a minipig model of chronic heart failureVincenzo Gemignani
National Research Council, Institute of Clinical Physiology, Pisa, Italy
Pacing Clin Electrophysiol 33:795-803. 2010..Comparative assessment was performed both at rest and following dobutamine infusion...
Second-opinion stress tele-echocardiography for the Adonhers (Aged donor heart rescue by stress echo) projectDaniele Franchi
Department of Echocardiography and Medical Informatics, Institute of Clinical Physiology, National Research Council, Via Moruzzi 1, Pisa 56124, Italy
Cardiovasc Ultrasound 8:20. 2010..This study aimed to verify feasibility of a "second opinion" of digitally transferred images of stress echo results to minimize technical variability in selection of aged donor hearts for heart transplant...
Rest and stress echocardiographic predictors of prognosis in patients with left ventricular dysfunction and functional mitral regurgitationEustachio Agricola
Int J Cardiol 124:247-9. 2008..Therefore, rest and stress echocardiographic evaluation of patients with FMR provides strong prognostic information...
End-systolic pressure/volume relationship during dobutamine stress echo: a prognostically useful non-invasive index of left ventricular contractilityAurelia Grosu
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine and Internal Medicine, Ospedali Riuniti, Bergamo, Italy
Eur Heart J 26:2404-12. 2005..The best survival is observed in patients with up-sloping PVR, whereas flat-biphasic pattern is a strong predictor of cardiac events...
Usefulness of latent left ventricular dysfunction assessed by Bowditch Treppe to predict stress-induced pulmonary hypertension in minimally symptomatic severe mitral regurgitation secondary to mitral valve prolapseEustachio Agricola
Division of Non Invasive Cardiology, Cardiothoracic Department, San Raffaele Hospital, IRCCS, Milano, Italy
Am J Cardiol 95:414-7. 2005..Therefore, in patients with severe MR and apparently normal left ventricular function, the stress-induced pulmonary hypertension seems to be related to the presence of latent left ventricular dysfunction...
