Left Ventricular Systolic Function
The utility of pocket-sized echocardiography to assess left ventricular systolic function prior to permanent pacemaker implantation
... if left ventricular systolic function could be adequately assessed by a sonographic trainee using PSE, in patients receiving first-time PPM ...
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Cardiac incoordination induced by left bundle branch block: its relation with left ventricular systolic function in patients with and without cardiomyopathy
... LV systolic function does not necessarily establish a cause-effect relationship between them, though it is probable that the poor or the lack of MC found in patients with LBBB and cardiomyopathies could be ...
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Comparing impedance cardiography and echocardiography in the assessment of reduced left ventricular systolic function
... ventricular function is essential for the diagnosis of HF and the ...reduced left ventricular systolic function and de- creases in patients with HF to 53% compared with 93% in ...
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Associations among left ventricular systolic function, tachycardia, and cardiac preload in septic patients
... for left ventricular longitudinal ...assess left ventricular preload [41, 47, ...diastolic function in accordance with the 2016 American Society of Echocardiography guidelines ...
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Overweight and obesity impair left ventricular systolic function as measured by left ventricular ejection fraction and global longitudinal strain
... tolic function is ...LV systolic function in terms of LVEF as well as ...LV systolic function found in participants with overweight and obesity in our ...
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Assessing left ventricular systolic function in shock: evaluation of echocardiographic parameters in intensive care
... LV function under changing hemodynamic conditions in experimental settings ...disease, left atrioventricular plane displace- ment (AVPD), also called mitral annulus movement, is a valuable tool for the ...
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Impact of sphingomyelin levels on coronary heart disease and left ventricular systolic function in humans
... The association between SM levels and LV dysfunction is a novel finding as we are unaware of prior studies reporting such a relation. Although CHD is a leading cause of LV systolic dysfunction, it is unlikely that ...
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Histoplasmosis Myocarditis in an Immunocompetent Host After a Recreational Mud Run
... reduced left ventricular systolic function, severe mitral regurgitation, and nearly transmural midmyocardial hyperenhancement in the septum and inferior wall, consistent with myocarditis (Fig ...
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Respiratory variations of inferior vena cava fail to predict fluid responsiveness in mechanically ventilated patients with isolated left ventricular dysfunction
... plane systolic excursion (TAPSE), left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), and LV outflow tract velocity–time integral (VTI) before and after passive leg raising (PLR) were ...LV systolic ...
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Topic: Echocardiographic Evaluation of Left Ventricular Systolic and Diastolic Function in Nigerians with Sickle Cell Disease
... the left lateral decubitus position using standard parasternal, short axis and apical ...of Left Ventricular (LV) function were derived. Left ventricular systolic ...
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The role of oral dipyridamole stress gated SPECT in assessing the response of the left ventricle to stress: Re-evaluation of an old method
... Introduction: We aimed to assess whether the vasodilator effect of oral dipyridamole on the left ventricular systolic function in patients with suspected CAD is di[r] ...
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Realization of fully automated quantification of left ventricular volumes and systolic function using transthoracic 3D echocardiography
... trabeculae from the myocardium in 6–12 segments; 3, visualization of all wall segments and clear differenti- ation of endocardial trabeculae from the myocardium in less than 6 segments; 4, dropout of less than or equal ...
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Left Ventricular Structure, Geometry and Systolic Function among Hypertensive Black Patients with Reduced Kidney Function
... Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) and abnormal LV geometry are important markers of cardiovascular risk in hypertensive as well as chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients [1] ...compromise, systolic ...
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Usefulness and limitations of transthoracic echocardiography in heart transplantation recipients
... of left ventricular and right ventricular systolic and diastolic function, of left ventricular mass, valvular heart disease, pulmonary arterial hypertension and ...
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Ultrasonic evaluation of fetal ventricular systolic function in hypertensive disorder complicating pregnancy and its correlation with the expression of placental hypoxia-related genes
... the ventricular systolic dysfunction and fetal blood supply insufficiency will occur when the compensatory mechanism reaches the ...cardiac function testing is the most common means for objective ...
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Variability in echocardiographic measurements of left ventricular function in septic shock patients
... evaluating systolic LV function, we used the bi- plane Simpson method which is widely recommended and has been shown to reliably detect even small changes in EF in ischaemic heart disease ...LV ...
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Cholesterol remnants and triglycerides are associated with decreased myocardial function in patients with type 2 diabetes
... myocardial function with increasing levels of triglyc- erides and cholesterol ...is, left ventricular impairment in patients with diabetes in the absence of coronary artery disease and hypertension ...
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Comparison of the effect of pressure loading on left ventricular size, systolic and diastolic function in canines with left ventricular dysfunction with preserved and reduced ejection fraction
... oxamine infusions for PreEF (left) and RedEF (right) groups. Both groups demonstrate a similar rightward and upper shift of the pressure-volume curve from the base- line LV dysfunction plot. LV volumes (p < ...
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Thyroid stimulating hormone suppression time on cardiac function of patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma
... LV: left ventricle; T4: thyroxine; T3: triiodothyronine; GMPI: gated myocar- dial perfusion imaging; FT3: free triiodothyronine; FT4: free thyroxine; SRS: summed rest score; BMP: beats per minute; EDV: ...
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The Effects of Sex on Cardiopulmonary Responses to Acute Normobaric Hypoxia
... of systolic function and that the ICV is higher at rest in men than women with normoxia (Lind et ...The left ventricular ICV has been shown to be a robust and validated non-invasive marker of ...
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