Right ventricular function is a crucial determinant of long-term outcomes of children with
heart disease. Quantification of right ventricular systolic and diastolic performance by …

Echocardiography in the neonatal intensive care unit has led to improvements in our ability
to assess the neonatal heart in health and disease. Advances in neonatal cardiac imaging …

Over the past two decades the quest for quantitative evaluation of left ventricular function
and regional wall motion has escalated, allowing several aspects of myocardial contractile …

Background—Genetic testing identifies sarcomere mutation carriers (G+) before clinical
diagnosis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), allowing characterization of initial disease …

Aims The prevalence of obesity is increasing among children in the developed world. The
association of obesity and abnormal cardiac function is still debated. The reported changes …

Myocardial function assessment is essential for determining the health of the myocardium.
Global assessment of myocardial function is widely performed (by estimating the ejection …

Current ultrasound methods for measuring myocardial strain are often limited to
measurements in one or two dimensions. Cardiac motion and deformation however are truly …

The aim of this study was to describe the acute effects of anthracyclines on left ventricular
systolic and diastolic function using different echocardiographic modalities. Thirteen children …

Background and objectives: The role of atrial myocardial dysfunction after cardioversion is
unclear. In a comparison of patients after successful cardioversion from chronic atrial …

Background Fibrofatty degeneration of myocardium in ARVC is associated with wall motion
abnormalities. The aim of this study was to examine whether Cardiovascular Magnetic …