Atrial fibrillation in horses part 1 : pathophysiology
MITT: Medical Image Tracking Toolbox
Over the years, medical image tracking has gained considerable attention from both medical and research communities due to its widespread utility in a multitude of clinical applications, from functional assessment during diagnosis and therapy planning to structure tracking or image fusion during image-guided interventions. Despite the ever-increasi...
Surgical repair of atrioventricular septal defects: incidence and mode of failure of the left atrioventricular valve.
Published in Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery
Our goal was to investigate the outcome of the left atrioventricular valve (LAVV) after repair of atrioventricular septal defects (AVSDs) by analysing the mechanisms of LAVV failure. A retrospective investigation of 202 children with AVSD, operated on between 1992 and 2016, was performed. Analysis focused on freedom from reoperation for LAVV dysfun...
The flaws in the detail of an observational study on transcatheter aortic valve implantation versus surgical aortic valv...
...The PARTNER group recently published a comparison between the latest generation SAPIEN 3 transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) system (Edwards Lifesciences, Irvine, CA, USA) and surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) in intermediate-risk patients, apparently demonstrating superiority of the TAVI and suggesting that TAVI might be the pref...
Left ventricular heart failure and pulmonary hypertension.
Published in European heart journal
In patients with left ventricular heart failure (HF), the development of pulmonary hypertension (PH) and right ventricular (RV) dysfunction are frequent and have important impact on disease progression, morbidity, and mortality, and therefore warrant clinical attention. Pulmonary hypertension related to left heart disease (LHD) by far represents th...
Clinical course and potential complications of small ventricular septal defects in adulthood: Late development of left v...
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Background Patients with small ventricular septal defects (VSDs) are thought to have excellent long-term survival, although complications may not be uncommon. Methods We identified all patients aged ≥ 16 years with native isolated VSD between January 2000 and September 2013. Clinical outcomes were retrospectively reviewed. Transthoracic echocardiog...
Novel flow quantification of the carotid bulb and the common carotid artery with vector flow ultrasound.
Abnormal blood flow is usually assessed using spectral Doppler estimation of the peak systolic velocity. The technique, however, only estimates the axial velocity component, and therefore the complexity of blood flow remains hidden in conventional ultrasound examinations. With the vector ultrasound technique transverse oscillation the blood velocit...
Novel flow quantification of the carotid bulb and the common carotid artery with vector flow ultrasound.
Abnormal blood flow is usually assessed using spectral Doppler estimation of the peak systolic velocity. The technique, however, only estimates the axial velocity component, and therefore the complexity of blood flow remains hidden in conventional ultrasound examinations. With the vector ultrasound technique transverse oscillation the blood velocit...
Recommendations for transoesophageal echocardiography: EACVI update 2014
With this document, we update the recommendations for transoesophageal echocardiography (TOE) of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging. The document focusses on the areas of interventional TOE, in particular transcatheter aortic, mitral, and left atrial appendage interventions, as well as on the role of TOE in infective endocarditis, a...
Novel flow quantification of the carotid bulb and the common carotid artery with vector flow ultrasound.
Abnormal blood flow is usually assessed using spectral Doppler estimation of the peak systolic velocity. The technique, however, only estimates the axial velocity component, and therefore the complexity of blood flow remains hidden in conventional ultrasound examinations. With the vector ultrasound technique transverse oscillation the blood velocit...
