The Genetic and Imaging Key to Understanding Bicuspid Aortic Valve Disease by Vaneeza Moosa, Julio Garcia

“…Imaging advancements, particularly in cardiac MRI and echocardiography, have enhanced the assessment of valve morphology and hemodynamics, with Wall Shear Stress emerging as a promising biomarker. …”
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Native Aortic and Tricuspid Valve Endocarditis Complicated by Embolic ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction by Mumtaz Zaman, Richard Loynd, Anthony Donato

“…Following a failed attempt at thrombus extraction, a 3.0×38 mm bioabsorbable drug-eluting stent was placed. Echocardiography then revealed large mobile aortic valve vegetations with the largest measuring 1.4×1.7 cm, severe tricuspid regurgitation with a 1.1×0.5 cm mobile vegetation on the anterior leaflet along with a patent foramen ovale with right-to-left shunting. …”
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Persistent left superior vena cava with retrograde flow and absent coronary sinus in a child with ventricular septal defect and patent ductus arteriosus by Rashmi Kishore, Rajesh Babu Gudipati, Palaparthi Sairam, Thomas Mathew, Suman Y. Vyas, Nitin K. Rao

“…Persistent left superior vena cava (LSVC) is a relatively common entity that usually drains into the CS, is of no hemodynamic consequence, and is easily diagnosed on echocardiography by a dilated CS and an antegrade flow toward the heart. …”
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Acute Myocardial Infarction due to External Compression of the Left Main Coronary Artery by a Large Pulmonary Artery Aneurysm by H. Sharma, S. N. Doshi, M. A. Nadir

“…The patient had dynamic anterolateral ischaemic changes on electrocardiography and serially elevated high-sensitivity troponin I. Transthoracic echocardiography revealed impaired left ventricular ejection fraction with anterolateral hypokinesis. …”
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Q Fever Presenting as Recurrent, Culture-Negative Endocarditis with Aortic Prosthetic Valve Failure: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Abeer N AlShukairi, Muhammad G Morshed, Neil E Reiner

“…Furthermore, no vegetations were detectable on his aortic valve at transesophageal echocardiography. On the occasion of his most recent presentation, a detailed history of animal exposure -- including hunting and skinning deer, moose and other large animals with his bare hands -- was the only clue to his diagnosis. …”
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Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in a Patient with Dextrocardia with Situs Inversus by Kaitlin E. Woods, J. W. Awori Hayanga, Daniel Sloyer, Roy E. Henrickson, Lawrence M. Wei, Heather K. Hayanga

“…Transesophageal echocardiography confirmation of aortic and venous cannulation required turning the probe right for the right-sided aorta and left for liver visualization, respectively. …”
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Myocardial Viability: What We Knew and What Is New by Adel Shabana, Ayman El-Menyar

“…Nuclear cardiology techniques, dobutamine echocardiography and positron emission tomography are used to assess myocardial viability. …”
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Cardiac Hemangioma of RVOT in a Patient with Atypical Chest Pain by Hossein Vakili, Isa Khaheshi, Mahnoosh Foroughi, Hamid Ghaderi, Shooka Esmaeeli, Mostafa Jafari

“…A 40-year-old man presented with atypical chest pain and fatigue from 15 days ago a suspicious mass in the right ventricle based on a bed side transthoracic echocardiography. Preoperative diagnosis of a cardiac hemangioma comes to mind in a minority of cases. …”
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Mycotic Renal Artery Aneurysm Presenting as Critical Limb Ischemia in Culture-Negative Endocarditis by Vy Thuy Ho, Nathan K. Itoga, Tiffany Wu, Ehab Sorial, Manuel Garcia-Toca

“…This aneurysm tripled in size from 0.46 cm to 1.65 cm in a 3-week interval. Echocardiography demonstrated aortic valve vegetations leading to a diagnosis of culture-negative endocarditis. …”
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Case Report: Efficacy and safety of recombinant growth hormone therapy in a girl with Loeys–Dietz syndrome by Kamil Dyrka, Aleksander Jamsheer, Michal Bartecki, Waldemar Bobkowski, Malgorzata Pawelec-Wojtalik, Justyna Rajewska-Tabor, Andzelika Tomaszewska, Justyna Balcerzak, Zuzanna Aniol, Marek Niedziela, Monika Obara-Moszynska

“…After the age of 16 months, widening of the aortic root was observed via echocardiography. At nearly 16 years, due to dilated aortic root (Z score +5.95), the girl underwent a plastic operation on the aorta, which had a satisfactory outcome. …”
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Vitamin K-Dependent Proteins as Predictors of Valvular Calcifications and Mortality in Hemodialysis Patients by Marcel Palamar, Iulia Dana Grosu, Adalbert Schiller, Ligia Petrica, Madalina Bodea, Alexandru Sircuta, Elisabeta Gruescu, Oana Daniela Matei, Maria Daniela Tanasescu, Ionut Golet, Flaviu Bob

“…Patients with more than one valvular calcification on echocardiography had a significantly higher all-cause mortality risk (<i>p</i> = 0.04). …”
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Diffuse Supravalvular Aortic Stenosis: Surgical Repair in Adulthood by Giovanni Ferlan, Claudio De Pasquale, Concetta Losito, Annalisa Fiorella, Nicola Marraudino, Francesco Tunzi

“…Repair consisted in resection of the ascending aorta, patch augmentation of the hypoplastic aortic root and annulus, placement of a 20 mm Dacron tubular graft (Vascutek, Renfrewshire, UK) and aortic valve replacement with a mechanical prosthesis (Sorin, Turin, Italy). Follow-up echocardiography demonstrated normal prosthetic valve function and a postoperative three-dimensional computed tomographic scan showed a normal shape of the reconstructed ascending aorta.…”
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Prevention of Cerebral Embolism Progression by Emergency Surgery of the Left Atrial Myxoma by Syuichi Tetsuka, Kunihiko Ikeguchi

“…Hyperintense areas in the left basal ganglia, corona radiata, and cortex of the temporal lobe were found by brain diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging, indicating acute cerebral infarction. Echocardiography showed a giant mass of diameter 7 × 4 cm in the left atrium. …”
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Aerococcus viridans Native Valve Endocarditis by Wenwan Zhou, Vanessa Nanci, Andreanne Jean, Amir H Salehi, Fahad Altuwaijri, Renzo Cecere, Jacques Genest

“…Given the aggressive nature of A viridans endocarditis and the variable time to diagnosis (a few days to seven months), prompt recognition of symptoms and echocardiography, in addition to blood cultures, should be performed when symptoms persist.…”
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Peripartum Cardiomyopathy: A Case Report by Ozlem Ece Basaran, Emine Seda Guvendag Guven, Suleyman Guven

“…During the early postoperative period, the patient complaint of respiratory distress and the diagnosis of peripartum cardiomyopathy was confirmed with physical examination, laboratory and echocardiography findings. She was transferred to the cardiac intensive care unit and received supplemental oxygen, noninvasive ventilation and intravenous infusion of lidocaine. …”
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Peripheral Gangerene, an Unusual Presentation of Infantile Kawasaki: A Case Report and Literature Review by Fatemeh Tahghighi, Maryam Bakhtiari Koohsorkhi, Vahid Ziaee

“…She was admitted in our hospital, and the repeat echocardiography showed sustained coronary ectasia. She received 3 doses of methylprednisolone pulse therapy and was discharged with aspirin and prednisolone. …”
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The case of the unusual progression of the left atrial malignant tumor by R.M. Vitovsky, V.V. Isaenko, O.A. Pishchurin, V.F. Onishchenko, O.Z. Paratsiy, I.G. Yakovenko, D.N. Dyadyun, T.I. Dedkova

“…Laboratory and instrumental diagnostic methods were used, including transthoracic and transesophageal B-mode color Doppler echocardiography, which made possible to detect the tumor. …”
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Comparison of frontal QRS-T angle in mitral valve prolapse without arrhythmic phenotype with healthy individuals by Celal Kilit

“…Frontal QRS-T angle and other electrocardiography and echocardiography parameters were compared between the groups. …”
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Effect of resistive-endurance exercises on myocardial tissue creatine kinase isoenzyme, IL-6 and IL-10 serum changes in male cardiovascular patients by Alireza Zamanı, Bijan Rajaeıan, Saeid Rostamı

“…After, patients filled demographic questionnaire and tests were performed to determine risk factors. Also echocardiography (Simpson) and limited exercise test method (Noughton) were used to determine functional capacity and ejection fraction. …”
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FLAIR Hyperintense Vessel Sign of Both MCAs with Severe Heart Failure by Donghee Kim, Seung-Yul Lee, Kwon-Duk Seo

“…In the baseline routine laboratory investigations, the AST, ALT, and B-type natriuretic peptide levels were elevated. Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) showed mitral valve prolapse with severe regurgitation. …”
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