{"title":"Synchronized motion of intracardiac thrombus with preserved left ventricular contraction in a patient with eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis.","authors":"Osamu Sasaki, Toshihiko Nishioka","doi":"10.1007/s12574-023-00634-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12574-023-00634-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44837,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Echocardiography","volume":" ","pages":"213-215"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139472110","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}
Kazunori Watanabe, Naoki Kawaguchi, Kota Nanjo, Moeko Abe, Jun Nakamura, Makoto Abe, Jun-Ei Obata
{"title":"A case of intravenous leiomyomatosis with intracardiac extension.","authors":"Kazunori Watanabe, Naoki Kawaguchi, Kota Nanjo, Moeko Abe, Jun Nakamura, Makoto Abe, Jun-Ei Obata","doi":"10.1007/s12574-024-00642-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12574-024-00642-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44837,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Echocardiography","volume":" ","pages":"227-229"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139698603","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}
Ni Made Ayu Wulan Sari, Amiliana Mardiani Soesanto
{"title":"Right ventricular function in mitral stenosis: plays a fundamental role.","authors":"Ni Made Ayu Wulan Sari, Amiliana Mardiani Soesanto","doi":"10.1007/s12574-024-00663-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12574-024-00663-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The importance of the right ventricle (RV) was neglected or forgotten for decades. The RV has an essential function in cardiovascular physiology and pathology. The RV dysfunction is one of the causes of morbidity and mortality in valvular heart disease (VHD), especially in mitral stenosis (MS). Right ventricular systolic and diastolic function are important for the determination of clinical symptoms, exercise functional capacity, pre-procedure survival, and post-procedure outcome in patients with MS. Right ventricular dysfunction in MS with a sign of systemic venous congestion is easy to recognize, but MS without clinical evidence of RV dysfunction has not been studied. Detecting RV dysfunction earlier in MS is important in clinical practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":44837,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Echocardiography","volume":" ","pages":"185-192"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142378424","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}
{"title":"Extreme shortening of non-coronary cusp of the aortic valve detected by transesophageal echocardiography: a case report.","authors":"Tomohiro Ichiyanagi, Taiji Okada, Yutaka Furukawa","doi":"10.1007/s12574-023-00637-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12574-023-00637-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44837,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Echocardiography","volume":" ","pages":"219-220"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139673247","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}
{"title":"Diverse distribution patterns of segmental longitudinal strain are associated with different clinical features and outcomes in dilated cardiomyopathy.","authors":"Kaoruko Sengoku, Tomohito Ohtani, Yasuharu Takeda, Toshinari Onishi, Fusako Sera, Misato Chimura, Shozo Konishi, Yasuhiro Ichibori, Masayoshi Yamamoto, Tomoko Ishizu, Yoshihiro Seo, Yasushi Sakata","doi":"10.1007/s12574-024-00646-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12574-024-00646-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) presents with diverse clinical courses, hardly predictable solely by the left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction (EF). Longitudinal strain (LS) offers distinct information from LVEF and exhibits various distribution patterns. This study aimed to evaluate the clinical significance of LS distribution patterns in DCM.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We studied 139 patients with DCM (LVEF ≤ 35%) who were admitted for heart failure (HF). LS distribution was assessed using a bull's eye map and the relative apical LS index (RapLSI), calculated by dividing apical LS by the sum of basal and mid-LS values. We evaluated the associations of LS distribution with cardiac events (cardiac death, LV assist device implantation, or HF hospitalization) and LV reverse remodeling (LVRR), as indicated by subsequent LVEF changes.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Twenty six (19%) and 29 (21%) patients exhibited a pattern of relatively apical impaired or preserved LS (defined by RapLSI < 0.25 or > 0.75, signifying a 50% decrease or increase in apical LS compared to other segments), and the remaining patients exhibited a scattered/homogeneously impaired LS pattern. The proportion of new-onset heart failure and LVEF differed between the three groups. During the median 595-day follow-up, patients with relatively-impaired apical LS had a higher rate of cardiac events (both log-rank p < 0.05) and a lower incidence of LVRR (both p < 0.01) compared to patients with other patterns. RapLSI was significantly associated with cardiac event rates after adjusting for age, sex, and new-onset HF or global LS.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>DCM patients with reduced EF and distinct distribution patterns of impaired LS experienced different outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":44837,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Echocardiography","volume":" ","pages":"193-201"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11561091/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140050636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Giant progressive mitral vegetation in a case of infective endocarditis caused by Streptococcus agalactiae.","authors":"Gyo Susukida, Atsushi Sakamoto, Keisuke Iguchi, Mayu Fujihiro, Hayato Ohtani, Norihiko Shiiya, Yuichiro Maekawa","doi":"10.1007/s12574-023-00633-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12574-023-00633-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44837,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Echocardiography","volume":" ","pages":"210-212"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139486486","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}
{"title":"Contrast echocardiography during exercise stress in a case of congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries after double-switch operation.","authors":"Yui Omomo, Yasuhide Mochizuki, Daisuke Yokokawa, Ayaka Oda, Takanari Fujii, Hideshi Tomita, Toshiro Shinke","doi":"10.1007/s12574-023-00641-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12574-023-00641-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44837,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Echocardiography","volume":" ","pages":"224-226"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139565056","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}
{"title":"Preoperative mitral valve annulus area size is an important factor in avoiding functional mitral stenosis after mitral valve repair.","authors":"Haruka Sasaki, Hiroyuki Takaoka, Kazuki Yoshida, Moe Matsumoto, Yusei Nishikawa, Yoshitada Noguchi, Shuhei Aoki, Katsuya Suzuki, Satomi Yashima, Makiko Kinoshita, Noriko Suzuki-Eguchi, Shuichiro Takanashi, Goro Matsumiya, Yoshio Kobayashi","doi":"10.1007/s12574-024-00671-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12574-024-00671-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Functional mitral stenosis (FMS) following mitral valve (MV) repair for degenerative mitral regurgitation (DMR) is known as a poor prognostic factor. The parameters for avoiding postoperative FMS in MV repair for DMR have not been established.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Two-hundred-and-twenty patients (mean age 61.1 ± 13.3 years, 144 males) who underwent MV repair for DMR were analyzed. MV annulus area was measured pre- and postoperatively using three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography (TEE). Trans-mitral pressure gradient (TMPG) was evaluated by postoperative transthoracic echocardiography and FMS was defined as a mean TMPG ≥ 5 mmHg.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>FMS was present in 14 patients (6.4%). Pre- versus postoperative MV annulus area change ratio was greater in the FMS group than in the non-FMS group (62.5 ± 7.2% vs. 48 ± 11.2%, p < 0.0001). On multivariate logistic regression analysis, MV annulus area change ratio was an independent predictor of FMS (odds ratio 1.19, 95% confidence interval 1.09-1.33, p < 0.0001), while receiver operating characteristics analysis showed that the optimal threshold for MV annulus area change ratio to predict FMS was 56.2% (area under the curve, 0.87; p < 0.0001).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The preoperative MV annulus area on TEE can be used to determine the postoperative MV annulus area to avoid FMS after MV repair.</p>","PeriodicalId":44837,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Echocardiography","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142688500","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}