No significant abnormalities were noted in the echocardiograms of the patients; however, 10 out of 132 (7.5%) patients presented a positive bubble echo. Enlarged left atria were found in 24 (13.1%) patients. Conclusion: The overall diagnostic yield of the abnormalities fro...
Conversely, in the current study, strong flow dephasing artifacts were present as demonstrated by Additional file 1. To reduce these artifacts, an ultrashort echo time GRE approach may be useful, but would likely require the continued use of contrast agents due to the poor blood to myocardium ...
Diabetic cardiomyopathy is a specific type of cardiomyopathy. In DCM, glucose uptake and utilization are impaired due to insulin deficiency or resistance, and the heart relies more heavily on fatty acid oxidation for energy, resulting in myocardial lipid
The aim of this study was to evaluate myocardial contrast echocardiography using aortic root injections with harmonic imaging in experimental acute myocardial infarction to determine the potential of this approach in the cardiac catheterization laboratory. Background. It would be desirable to have an ...
high PFA doses may cause bubble release45which are of thermal origin. Also a small temperature rise (< 8 °C)2, in an experimental setting2was reported. We therefore evaluated whether the PFA delivery scheme used in our animal study produced tissue heating sufficient to cause thermal injury...
RKM: acquisition of data related to the animal study and critical revision. JW: acquisition of data related to the animal study and critical revision. AP: acquisition of data related to the phantom experiments and critical revision. RR: critical revision. CP: conception and design of data ...
Cardiopoietic stem cells have reached advanced clinical testing for ischemic heart failure. To profile their molecular influence on recipient hearts, systems proteomics was here applied in a chronic model of infarction randomized with and without human c
Currently, with a sensitivity in excess of 98%, thoracic CT is the 'gold standard' for detecting PAVMs but involves a significant radiation exposure.1 Hence screening tools without a radiation burden such as oxygen shunt studies or cardiac bubble echo (CBE) are often considered as first line ...
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Transthoracic echocardiogram with bubble study noted LV ejection fraction of 62%, normal left atrial size and no evidence of an intracardiac shunt. Despite the lack of traditional indicators, a cardioembolic source was feared given the high risk of intracardiac thrombi in AL amyloid patients. A ...