Aims This study investigated left atrial (LA) parameters as measured on transthoracic
echocardiography as predictors of incident heart failure (HF) in a community cohort …

Cardiovascular disease remains a leading and partially preventable cause of death
worldwide; therefore, the early detection of incipient myocardial ischemia has always been a …

Background: Patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) and heart failure (HF) have elevated left
ventricular end-diastolic pressure in addition to decreased left atrial (LA) function, but there …

Advanced heart failure (AHF) represents an endstage disease in which patients present a
severe impairment of functional capacity despite optimized guideline-directed medical …

Background and Aim: Left atrial stiffness (LASt) is an important marker of cardiac function,
especially in patients with heart failure (HF); it explains symptoms on the basis of pressure …

Emerging evidence shows the clinical usefulness of left atrium analysis in different fields of
cardiovascular medicine in terms of diagnosis, prognosis and as a potential target for …

Objective Occult atrial fibrillation (AF) is a significant risk factor for occult stroke but is difficult
to detect. Myocardial strain, based on speckle tracking echocardiography (STE), can detect …

Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is common in systemic sclerosis (SSc)
and implies a worse prognosis therefore non-invasive assessment of left ventricular (LV) …

Objective We hypothesised that right atrial (RA) size and mechanics may have prognostic
role in systemic sclerosis (SSc) patients without manifest pulmonary arterial hypertension …

Background Noninvasive assessment of diastolic function in pediatric heart transplantation
(PHTx) patients is important for monitoring of rejection, cardiac allograft vasculopathy, and …