Serdar Sevimli

..This study was planned to assess strain and strain rate properties of right ventricle in patients with RV myocardial infarction...

..We report herein a hydatid cyst of the right ventricle and its two- and three-dimensional echocardiographic appearance...

..There are reports of solitary left and right atrial appendage aneurysms in the literature. A case of biatrial appendages aneurysms is reported here. This is the first report of such an anomaly...

..To this end, the data obtained by transoesophageal tissue Doppler echocardiography and by transthoracic tissue Doppler echocardiography were compared simultaneously...

..This study was planned to assess whether strain rate (Sr) and strain (S) echocardiography is a useful method for functional assessment of the left atrial appendage (LAA)...

..Ejection fraction returned to normal at the end of 10 days and the thrombus diminished and disappeared. Analysis of the pericardial fluid showed tuberculous pericarditis and antituberculous treatment was instituted...

..This study indicates that in patients with symptomatic congestive heart failure, carvedilol therapy is associated with an improvement in left atrial appendage function...

..Histological examination revealed a benign primary schwannoma of the heart. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of benign schwannoma of left ventricle in an adult...

..The patient was submitted to surgical correction...

..SCF can cause ischemia and sudden cardiac death. We investigated the association between presence and extent of SCF, and cardiovascular risk factors and hematologic indices...

..Therefore, we evaluated the relationship between GGT levels and coronary complexity, severity and extent assessed by SYNTAX score and long-term adverse events...

..Pulmonary hypertension (PH) caused by chronic obstructive lung disease (COLD) essentially involves the right heart. Also left ventricular (LV) systolic and diastolic functions may be affected...

..The aim of the study is to determine left ventricular (LV) functions by tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) and strain/strain rate echocardiography (SE/SRE) in mitral stenosis patients who had no clinical signs of heart failure...

..The purpose of this study was to investigate the correlation between the NT-proBNP levels and echocardiographic findings for the patients who received carvedilol therapy in addition to standard therapy for congestive heart failure...

..Tissue deformation time is an important factor in regional myocardial contractile functions. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association of coronary slow flow (CSF) with time to peak systolic strain...

..We evaluated left ventricular (LV) myocardial functions with strain (S) and strain rate (Sr) echocardiography and tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) before and after pericardiocentesis in patients with cardiac tamponade...

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..30 (P=0.02). We conclude that a 6-minute walk test distance of < or = 300 m is a simple and useful prognostic marker of subsequent cardiac death in patients with mild-to-moderate heart failure...

..We evaluated regional left ventricular myocardial functions by strain (S) and strain rate (Sr) echocardiography in patients with type II diabetes mellitus (DM) without microvascular complications...

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..Therefore, we aimed to evaluate the role of two-dimensional (2D) strain imaging in the assessment of subclinical RV dysfunction...

..To prospectively evaluate the regional myocardial deformation changes and viability in anterior acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients before and after primary coronary intervention (PCI) by strain (S)/strain rate (Sr) imaging...

..Therefore, we investigated the association between IL-6 polymorphism and levels of IL-6 in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD)...

..The results of this study suggest that FVL mutation may be one of the important risk factors in developing CAD in northeast Turkey...

..The velocity of the tricuspid annulus by tissue Doppler imaging is simple and can be used to distinguish whether patients with inferior myocardial infarction have right ventricular infarction...

..The study aim was to investigate the association between RHD and the antigens HLA-A, -B, -C, -DR and -DQ profile in RHD patients in eastern Turkey...

..Red cell distribution width was observed to be an independent predictor of both presence and severity of isolated CAE. In conclusion, RDW is associated with both the presence and severity of isolated CAE...

..In the present study, the authors studied the reproducibility of TEE 2D strain imaging parameters...

..We evaluated regional left atrial (LA) myocardial deformations by strain (S) and strain rate (SR) imaging during LA pump, reservoir, and conduit phases in patients with chronic rheumatic mitral regurgitation (MR)...

..We aimed to assess the use and reporting-quality of multivariate logistic regression analysis (MVLRA) in articles published in two Turkish cardiology journals...

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..This study has been accepted to present at the 28th Turkish National Cardiology Congress...

..Surgical resection was done using cardiopulmonary bypass. Histopathological examination revealed that the tumor was a hemangioma. The short-term outcome was favorable...

..In this study, our goal is to determine the use of multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) in detection of aorto-ostial lesions...

..We present a case with ARVD evaluated through 16-row MDCT. Fatty infiltration was clearly demonstrated by 16-slice CT; thus, multislice CT may have a significant role in the assessment and follow-up of patients with ARVD...

..We present a case with ARVD evaluated through 16-row MDCT. Fatty infiltration was clearly demonstrated by 16-slice CT; thus, multislice CT may have a significant role in the assessment and follow-up of patients with ARVD...

..As a result, this increased MPV values in highlanders who experienced an acute coronary event may reflect increased platelet aggregability...

..Hospital records revealed that VDR had been noticed 7 years ago during hospitalization due to anterior myocardial infarction. However, recommended surgical repair could not be performed because of the patient's refusal...

..Surgical treatment was considered, but the patient refused. We describe a case of QAV leading to aortic regurgitation...

..This score is based on visual assessment of coronary lesions via coronary angiograms. It has some limitations due to its visual assessment. Therefore, interobserver and intraobserver agreement should be tested...

..No thromboembolic complications were observed during the follow-up period...

..But, he died due to sudden cardiopulmonary arrest development during follow up. We have reported an extremely rare case of biatrial thrombus developed in a patient with idiopathic restrictive cardiomyopathy during sinus rhythm...

..As a conclusion, our study showed that MDCT, especially volume rendering and maximum intensity projection techniques, may be useful for assessment of complex variations, when the conventional angiography may not be sufficient...