echocardiographic analysis and ejection fraction
Visually estimated ejection fraction by two dimensional and triplane echocardiography is closely correlated with quantitative ejection fraction by real-time three dimensional echocardiography
... line echocardiographic analysis techniques using soft- ware's and operator-performed border tracing meet these criteria poorly, explaining their lack of widespread use despite validation in different ...
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Computer-assisted determination of left ventricular endocardial borders reduces variability in the echocardiographic assessment of ejection fraction
... McGowan, however, in a recent meta-analysis expressed a more guarded attitude [8]. Our study only assessed visual classification in four broad categories. Although visual assessment used in this manner performed ...
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Prognostic value of three-dimensional echocardiographic right ventricular ejection fraction in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension
... events and 95% confidence interval. A multivariate-Cox proportional hazard model was also developed using stepwise regression by selecting those variables that were significant upon univariate analysis. ...
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Global longitudinal strain is a more reproducible measure of left ventricular function than ejection fraction regardless of echocardiographic training
... with minimum foreshortening. Timing of end systole and diastole is critical. End-diastole is defined as the first frame after mitral valve closure or the frame which LV dimension is the largest. [25] End-systole is ...
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Comparison of echocardiographic indices of right ventricular systolic function and ejection fraction obtained with continuous thermodilution in critically ill patients
... FAC is known to be well correlated with RVEF in a recent meta-analysis of cardiology studies [6]. In a recent study comparing MRI-based RVEF to echocardiographic indices in non-critically ill patients, FAC ...
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The Eects of Sacubitril Valsartan on Clinical, Biochemical and Echocardiographic Parameters in Patients with Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction: The “Hemodynamic Recovery”
... 3.1. Baseline Evaluations A total of 216 patients were prospectively enrolled. However, five patients discontinued sacubitril/valsartan because they experienced hypotension, four patients because of acute on chronic HF ...
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<p>Echocardiographic and Clinical Correlates of Ejection Fraction Among 2000 Patients with Heart Failure in Western Saudi Arabia</p>
... different echocardiographic fi nd- ings among different types of HF, higher FS was com- monly encountered among patients with HFpEF, whereas higher LVd, LVs, left atrial volume and aortic root dimension were ...
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Prevalence and Echocardiographic Assessment of Mitral Regurgitation including 3D-EF [Ejection Fraction] assessment in Acute ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction.
... resolution compared with gold standard modality of CMR. Despite its limitations, 3DE may be superior to 2D techniques. Our single centre study shades light on the prevalence of Mitral Regurgitation in acute STEMI in ...
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Impact of a training program incorporating cardiac magnetic resonance imaging on the accuracy and reproducibility of two-dimensional echocardiographic measurements of left ventricular volumes and ejection fraction
... Patients We selected a consecutive series of 15 patients who underwent clinically indicated CMR examinations and also agreed to undergo 2DE examinations on the same day among the CMR database of our laboratory. We did ...
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Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction: Clinical Profile, Risk Factor Analysis and Echo Evaluation
... PATIENT EVALUATION All of the 52 patients included in the study are thoroughly evaluated clinically with particular focus on identifying the clinical signs & symptoms of the heart failure. Patients are further ...
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Ultrasonic image analysis of longitudinal strain in uremic patients with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction
... motion analysis by conventional echocardi- ography often do not reflect the LV systolic dysfunction at the early stage of disease [18, ...conventional echocardiographic measures to provide additional and ...
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Diastolic Dysfunction With Preserved Ejection Fraction After the Fontan Procedure
... for analysis and were included in the current ...Sensitivity analysis showed no differences in percent predicted peak VO 2 between the DD group and the control or SD groups when cutoff values of 75th ...
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Prognosis of patients with secondary mitral regurgitation and reduced ejection fraction
... Reports analysis software programme, we included consecutive patients with a left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) ≤ 35% who received a transtho- racic echocardiographic (TTE) study for ...
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Effects of mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists in patients with preserved ejection fraction: a meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials
... Subgroup analysis by drug type; (C) Leave-one-out analysis; (D) Funnel plots for all-cause ...Leave-one-out analysis; (C)Funnel plots for hospitalization for heart ...Pooled analysis excluding ...
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Clinical profile of patients presenting with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction
... preserved ejection fraction and to determine the prevalence of comorbid illnesses in these ...normal ejection fraction (>50%) were ...the Echocardiographic study into four ...
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Echocardiographic Assessment of Systolic Time Intervals in Hemodialysis Patients with Normal Ejection Fraction.
... echocardiographic cardiovascular disease are already present in a very high proportion of patients starting ESRD therapy and are independent mortality factors. A cross sectional study 21 was done to see whether ...
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Original Article Curative effect analysis of urapidil on heart failure with preserved ejection fraction and heart failure with reduced ejection fraction
... tzer NK, Yang S and McKinlay SM. Spironolac- tone for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. N Engl J Med 2014; 370: 1383-1392. [16] Yancy CW, Jessup M, Bozkurt B, Butler J, Casey DE Jr, Drazner ...
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Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction: Is this Relevant?
... Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is more common in people of old age. In Indian population, HFpEF has been unified with hypertension, diabetes mellitus and artherosclerosis in most of ...
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Managing heart failure with preserved ejection fraction
... preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is increasing in prevalence as the general population ...with ejection fractions (EF) of less than 60% may obtain a mortality benefit from ACE-inhibitors, ...
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Although left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) is a
... In particular, hematocrit was not measured, and the effect of anemia in premenopausal women in contributing to the observed gender LVEF differences is therefore unknown. The poor correlation of LVEF with age, which would ...
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