Aims There is little information from experimental studies regarding the evolution of post-
resuscitation cardiac arrest [post-return of spontaneous circulation (post-ROSC)] myocardial …

Ischemic heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, Canada, and
worldwide. Severe disease is characterized by coronary artery occlusion, loss of blood flow …

BACKGROUND: Doppler echocardiogram is useful for the evaluation of anatomical and
functional changes in late myocardial infarction (MI) in rats. However, no studies have …

BACKGROUND: Recently, there have been many studies on genes or regenerations using
small animals such as mice and rats. However, the therapeutic effects in genes or cell levels …

Background: Echocardiography is a well-established diagnostic tool for a safe, reproducible
and accurate evaluation of cardiac anatomy, hemodynamics and function in clinical practice …

Abstract Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR) is the gold standard for left ventricular (LV)
function assessment in small rodents and, though echocardiography (ECHO) has been …

Background Two-dimensional echocardiography is useful for estimating the extent of infarct-
related wall motion abnormalities. Such estimation, however, is based on a few selected …

Abstract End-diastolic pressure (EDP)-volume (EDV) curves were constructed for the left
ventricle (LV) in 10 dogs on cardiopulmonary bypass before and after 45 min of …

Evaluation of diastolic function is a pivotal challenge due to limitations of the conventional
echocardiography, especially when the heart rate is rapid as in rats. Currently, by using …

The objectives of this study were to assess the feasibility and accuracy of high-frequency
speckle tracking echocardiography (STE) in a murine model of myocardial infarction (MI) …