{"title":"Left atrial thrombus attached to the orifice of the left superior pulmonary vein: a case report.","authors":"Kazuhiro Nomura, Yuna Shinohara, Yoshie Nakajima, Shiro Iwanaga, Takuya Maeda, Keiji Yamamoto","doi":"10.1007/s12574-024-00644-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12574-024-00644-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44837,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Echocardiography","volume":" ","pages":"48-50"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11868307/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139713226","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}
Ikuo Misumi, Hiroto Kishi, Koji Sato, Akihisa Tabira, Hiroki Usuku, Kenichi Tsujita
{"title":"Triphasic mitral inflow velocity in a patient with metastatic lung cancer.","authors":"Ikuo Misumi, Hiroto Kishi, Koji Sato, Akihisa Tabira, Hiroki Usuku, Kenichi Tsujita","doi":"10.1007/s12574-024-00654-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12574-024-00654-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44837,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Echocardiography","volume":" ","pages":"62-63"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141724672","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}
Miguel Morales-Garcia, Ismael Arco-Adamuz, Laura Jordan-Martinez
{"title":"Evolved cardiac rupture: an unusual complication and a rare presentation after heart valve surgery. a case report.","authors":"Miguel Morales-Garcia, Ismael Arco-Adamuz, Laura Jordan-Martinez","doi":"10.1007/s12574-024-00657-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12574-024-00657-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44837,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Echocardiography","volume":" ","pages":"66-67"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141894566","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":"Echocardiographic findings of patients with transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy.","authors":"Hiroki Usuku, Fumi Oike, Naoto Kuyama, Kyoko Hirakawa, Seiji Takashio, Yasuhiro Izumiya, Kenichi Tsujita","doi":"10.1007/s12574-024-00672-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12574-024-00672-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM) is becoming increasingly recognized with the aging population, advancements in understanding of disease pathobiology and the potential benefits of emerging therapies. Bone scintigraphy, including <sup>99m</sup>Tc-labeled pyrophosphate scintigraphy, is currently considered the first-line modality for identifying ATTR-CM. Therefore, it is important to increase the preset probability using inexpensive and simple tests including echocardiography. Although there were a lot of typical echocardiographic findings of amyloid cardiomyopathy, unexplained left ventricular (LV) wall thickness, LV apical sparing, and a discrepancy between LV wall thickness and QRS voltage were selected as red flags/clues for ATTR-CM in various current diagnostic algorithms. Although echocardiography is useful for ATTR-CM screening, there are several limitations. Therefore, it is important to perform echocardiography and combine it with physical examination, laboratory findings, and other imaging data.</p>","PeriodicalId":44837,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Echocardiography","volume":" ","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142899159","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":"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}