Left Ventricle (LV)
Assessment on blood flow velocity using doppler technique for circulatory system diagnosis at left ventricle (LV) of the heart
... The primary measurements of mitral inflow include the peak early filling (E- wave) and late diastolic filling (A-wave) velocities in Figure 2.5, the E/A ratio, deceleration time (DT) of early filling velocity, and the ...
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Improving the fixation of an epicardial lead with a left ventricle pacemaker lead placement device for video assisted thoracic surgery
... This bachelor assignment will be executed commis- sioned by Demcon. The goal of the assignment is to improve one of the evaluated points of the by Demcon developed Proof of Principle (POP) of a Total Epicardial Delivery ...
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The left ventricle in aortic stenosis – imaging assessment and clinical implications
... the LV should always be taken into account for a comprehen- sive assessment of patients with ...of LV mass and ejection fraction, the assessment of LV deformation parameters (in particular STE ...
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Fat deposition in the left ventricle: descriptive and observacional study in autopsy
... the LV; b) the characterization of this deposit in the different anatomical compartments: presence or absence of EF, PAT and MA - intercardio- myocytes; c) measurement with the microscopic ruler ...
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Global longitudinal strain as an Indicator of cardiac Iron overload in thalassemia patients
... larger left ventricular end-systolic diameter, end-diastolic and end-systolic volume, left ven- tricular mass index, and mitral early/late diastolic flow vel- ocity ratio (p < ...the left ...
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Comparison of mitral annulus geometry between patients with ischemic and non-ischemic functional mitral regurgitation: implications for transcatheter mitral valve implantation
... Using the electronical database of the echocardiography laboratory of the department of cardiac, thoracic and vascular sciences of the University of Padua, 94 patients with severe FMR and complete transthoracic ...
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Presence of chest tubes does not affect the hemodynamic efficacy of standard cardiopulmonary resuscitation
... Under aseptic conditions, the right femoral artery was cannulated with an introducer sheath (7.5 Fr, Arrow International Inc., Reading, PA, USA) by the Seldinger method, and the aortic blood pressure was re- corded ...
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Surgical repair of a giant congenital right atrial aneurysm: a case report
... A 16-month old Caucasian girl (weight 12 kg, height 95 cm, body surface area (BSA) – 0.56 m 2 ) with a diag- nosis of right atrial aneurysm (RAA) was transferred to our clinic. She was diagnosed with RAA at the age of ...
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Significant incidental cardiac disease on thoracic CT: what the general radiologist needs to know
... the left anterior descending coronary artery (25 to 42%), the circumflex (18%), or both cor- onary arteries (5%) [33, ...vein, left atrium (LA), left ventricle (LV), or have multiple ...
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Increased prevalence of left ventricular hypertrophy in hypertensive women with type 2 diabetes mellitus
... the left ventricle (LV) were taken at cordal level, with the patient in partial left decubitus position, and three to five measurements were ...(IVS), LV inter- nal diameter, and ...
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Thrombin Receptor and Ventricular Arrhythmias after Acute Myocardial Infarction
... a left coronary artery ligation rat model of AMI, we found that a local injection of hirudin into the left ventricle (LV) significantly reduced the ratio of VA durations to infarction sizing, ...
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Physical Stress Echocardiography Evaluation in Athletes with Bicuspid Aortic Valves
... the Left Ventricle (LV) performance and the valve functioning of asymptomatic BAV athletes as compared to the Tricuspid Aortic Valve (TAV) ...in LV performance and aortic valve dysfunction ...
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Cardiopulmonary interactions
... in LV transmural pressure and therefore increased afterload on the left ventricle, for a given aortic pressure ...and LV afterload are ...in LV performance. Multiple studies have shown ...
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Assessment of left atrial volume before and after pulmonary thromboendarterectomy in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension
... the left atrial volume (LAVI), mitral E/A ratio, and mitral annular E/E’ ...the left ventricle were also ac- quired, including cardiac index (CI) and end-systolic and end-diastolic ...Maximum ...
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Effect of kidney transplantation on right ventricular function, assessment by 2- dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography
... The strain analysis was done on an offline basis (Fig. 1). Generally, we traced a region of interest by point-and- click approach on the endocardium at end-diastole in RV from the RV-focused view. A second larger region ...
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Development and evolution of the metazoan heart
... one ventricle. In mammals this will become the right ventricle, and in non- crocodilian reptiles probably the cavum pulmonale (see ...between left and right ventricles (Figure 5), however, is very ...
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Undiagnosed hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy during transcatheter aortic valve replacement: a case report
... to left ventricular outflow tract ...of left ventricular outflow tract obstruction via both symptoms and echocardiographic findings may be minimized due to extremely high afterload on the left ...a ...
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Double left ventricular pacing following accidental malpositioning of the right ventricular electrode during implantation of a cardiac resynchronization therapy device
... One month later on follow-up, the patient reported a marked improvement of his exercise capacity (NYHA II). Electrode values remained stable. An unscheduled echo- cardiogramm (Philips iE33) revealed a marked reduction of ...
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Right ventricular ejection fraction is better reflected by transverse rather than longitudinal wall motion in pulmonary hypertension
... Fractional-SFD is defined as SFD divided by the end- diastolic SF dimension. The unusually high end-systolic pressure in the lumen of the RV in patients with PH affects the cross-sectional shape of the cavity. Whereas it ...
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Multiple giant coronary artery aneurysms combined with right coronary artery-pulmonary artery fistula: a case report
... in the residual aneurysmal sac and the compression of the giant left CAA imposed on the left ventricle had been obviated (Figs. 1d, e, f and 2b; Additional file 3). The patient experienced an ...
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