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Cardiac response to hypertension treatment: an advanced echocardiographic evaluation. 心脏对高血压治疗的反应：高级超声心动图评估。

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Journal of Echocardiography Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2024-07-17 DOI: 10.1007/s12574-024-00652-0

Parinaz Sedighi, Amin Doosti-Irani, Shahram Homayounfar, Nakisa Khansari

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A painless Stanford type A acute aortic dissection and acute heart failure diagnosed by echocardiography. 超声心动图诊断为无痛性斯坦福 A 型急性主动脉夹层和急性心力衰竭。

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Journal of Echocardiography Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2024-07-19 DOI: 10.1007/s12574-024-00653-z

Hiroki Uehara, Toshiaki Osanai, Yutaro Oe, Takaki Yoshimura, Takahiro Gunji, Masaki Okuyama

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Markedly dilated right atrium in an infant: what is the diagnosis? 婴儿右心房明显扩张：如何诊断？

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Journal of Echocardiography Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2024-05-24 DOI: 10.1007/s12574-024-00651-1

Viswanatha Kartik Sambaturu, Vishnu Sugathan, Deepa Sasikumar, Mukund A Prabhu, Arun Gopalakrishnan

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The preferable position for quantifying left ventricular diameter by transthoracic echocardiography. 经胸超声心动图量化左心室直径的最佳体位。

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Journal of Echocardiography Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2024-09-02 DOI: 10.1007/s12574-024-00658-8

Takafumi Nakayama, Yasuhiro Shintani, Masashi Yokoi, Toshihiko Goto, Yukako Oishi, Noriyuki Ikehara, Masato Sugiura, Kengo Ohta, Hiroya Hashimoto, Kazuhiro Yajima, Yoshihiro Seo

{"title":"The preferable position for quantifying left ventricular diameter by transthoracic echocardiography.","authors":"Takafumi Nakayama, Yasuhiro Shintani, Masashi Yokoi, Toshihiko Goto, Yukako Oishi, Noriyuki Ikehara, Masato Sugiura, Kengo Ohta, Hiroya Hashimoto, Kazuhiro Yajima, Yoshihiro Seo","doi":"10.1007/s12574-024-00658-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12574-024-00658-8","url":null,"abstract":"Background: In quantifying left ventricular (LV) diameter, which position for echocardiographic measurements, mitral valve tip level (MV-tip) or LV mid level (LV-mid), more accurately represents the LV volume is unclear. Furthermore, which factor affects the measurement error also has not been elucidated.Methods: We enrolled 150 patients without myocardial infarction and local asynergy who underwent echocardiography and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMRI). Echocardiographic LV diastolic diameter (LVDD) and LV systolic diameter (LVDS) were measured at both MV-tip and LV-mid, and the LV end-diastolic volume (LVEDV) and end-systolic volume (LVESV) were quantified using CMRI. We quantified the degree of aortic wedging as the angle between the anterior wall of the aorta and the ventricular septal surface (ASA).Results: The average LVDD was smaller and average LVDS larger when measured at the MV-tip than at the LV-mid. In regression analyses, the correlation coefficient between LVDD and LVEDV was larger at LV-mid (R = 0.89) than at MV-tip (R = 0.82), and the correlation coefficient between LVDS and LVESV also larger at LV-mid (R = 0.93) than MV-tip (R = 0.87). ASA, Valsalva diameter, left atrial diameter, patient height, and LV mass significantly affected the echocardiographic measurement error, but no factor affected the measurement error when quantifying LVDD at the LV-mid level.Conclusions: The echocardiographic LV diameter measured at LV-mid has a stronger correlation with LV chamber size derived from CMRI than measurements at MV-tip. The LVDD measured at the LV-mid level is not affected by other factors.","PeriodicalId":44837,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Echocardiography","volume":" ","pages":"24-40"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142113199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Contrast echocardiography assisted in the diagnosis of complications during minimally cardiac invasive surgery: case report. 对比超声心动图辅助诊断心脏微创手术并发症：病例报告。

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Journal of Echocardiography Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2024-09-03 DOI: 10.1007/s12574-024-00656-w

Natsumi Morisako, Tsukasa Iwasaki, Yasuyuki Kato, Tadanobu Irie

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The Multicenter STudy On a Precise algorithm for diagnosis of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, STOP-HFPEF study: study protocol and design. 关于射血分数保留型心力衰竭精确诊断算法的多中心研究，STOP-HFPEF 研究：研究方案与设计。

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Journal of Echocardiography Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2024-08-05 DOI: 10.1007/s12574-024-00655-x

Tadafumi Sugimoto, Yu Kawada, Shohei Kikuchi, Shuichi Kitada, Masao Daimon, Yutaka Hirano, Masaki Izumo, Toshinari Onishi, Masaru Obokata, Hiroto Utsunomiya, Yoshihiro Seo

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Diagnostic utility of velocity ratio for paradoxical low-flow/low-gradient aortic stenosis. 速度比值对矛盾性低流量/低梯度主动脉狭窄的诊断作用。

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Journal of Echocardiography Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2024-08-31 DOI: 10.1007/s12574-024-00659-7

Shun Nagai, Takayoshi Toba, Yu Izawa, Kei Honde, Ken-Ichi Hirata, Hidekazu Tanaka

{"title":"Diagnostic utility of velocity ratio for paradoxical low-flow/low-gradient aortic stenosis.","authors":"Shun Nagai, Takayoshi Toba, Yu Izawa, Kei Honde, Ken-Ichi Hirata, Hidekazu Tanaka","doi":"10.1007/s12574-024-00659-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12574-024-00659-7","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Calcification score by cardiac computed tomography (CT) is required for diagnosis of paradoxical low-flow/low-gradient (PLFLG) aortic stenosis (AS). According to the guideline, velocity ratio (VR) < 0.25 by echocardiography is defined as severe AS, but utility of VR in patients with PLFLG AS remains unknown. This retrospective study was therefore conducted to investigate the utility of VR for a diagnosis of severe AS based on CT in patients with PLFLG AS.Methods: We studied 58 patients with PLFLG AS. Severity of AS was defined as calcium score derived from cardiac CT.Results: Of the 58 patients, 28 (48.3%) were diagnosed with severe AS based on CT, while 23 of them (82.1%) had VR < 0.25. It was noteworthy that receiver operating characteristic curve analysis showed that the optimal VR cutoff value for a diagnosis of severe AS was 0.25, with an area under the curve of 0.870 (P < 0.001). Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value of VR < 0.25 for a diagnosis of severe AS were 82.1%, 86.7%, 85.2% and 83.9%, respectively. Furthermore, patients who match the value of VR and severity of AS based on CT had higher prevalence of atrial fibrillation, higher serum brain natriuretic peptide concentration, larger left ventricular end-diastolic volume, and left ventricular stroke volume index.Conclusion: The measurement of VR is simple, and VR < 0.25 can be used for diagnosis of patients with PLFLG AS as severe. Our findings may thus have clinical implications for routine clinical practice.","PeriodicalId":44837,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Echocardiography","volume":" ","pages":"41-47"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142113198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A case of prosthetic valve endocarditis with increased vegetation size despite appropriate antibiotic therapy. 一例人工瓣膜心内膜炎病例，尽管接受了适当的抗生素治疗，但植被体积仍然增大。

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Journal of Echocardiography Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2024-02-29 DOI: 10.1007/s12574-024-00645-z

Junya Tanabe, Hiromi Wada, Shoichi Suehiro, Hiroyuki Yoshitomi, Akihiro Endo, Kazuhiro Yamazaki, Kazuaki Tanabe

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Left atrial thrombus attached to the orifice of the left superior pulmonary vein: a case report. 附着于左上肺静脉口的左心房血栓：病例报告。

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Journal of Echocardiography Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2024-02-10 DOI: 10.1007/s12574-024-00644-0

Kazuhiro Nomura, Yuna Shinohara, Yoshie Nakajima, Shiro Iwanaga, Takuya Maeda, Keiji Yamamoto

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Perforation of the chest wall from bioprosthetic pulmonary valve endocarditis. 生物人工肺动脉瓣心内膜炎造成胸壁穿孔。

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Journal of Echocardiography Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2024-03-19 DOI: 10.1007/s12574-024-00647-x

Akiko Nishizaki, Ayako Ishikita, Takamori Kakino, Ichiro Sakamoto, Akira Shiose, Shintaro Kinugawa

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