Diastolic dysfunction has correlated with adverse outcomes in various forms of unrepaired
and repaired or palliated congenital heart disease (CHD). The non-invasive assessment of …

In medicine, reference curves serve as an important tool for everyday clinical practice.
Pediatricians assess the growth process of children with the help of percentile curves. The …

Background Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is a precise tool for the assessment
of cardiac anatomy, function, and tissue composition. However, studies providing CMR …

Rationale and objectives Left Atrial (LA) adverse remodeling is an important predictor of
morbidity and mortality in several cardiovascular (CV) diseases. Our goals were to quantify …

Background Coronary slow flow phenomenon (CSFP) involves the delayed opacification of
the coronary distal vessel, in the absence of an obstructive lesion in the epicardial coronary …

Background Parameters of the interaction of the left atrium and left ventricle, atrioventricular
(AV) coupling, are used in the diagnosis and follow-up of diastolic dysfunction in adults …

Echocardiography is the primary tool in the diagnosis and assessment of pediatric heart
disease, including abnormalities of ventricular function. This chapter focuses on the current …

Left atrial (LA) enlargement is present in the majority of adult heart transplant (HT) recipients.
We used speckle-tracking echocardiography to investigate whether LA phasic function in HT …

Purpose The traditional method for measuring left atrial volume (LAV) involves manual
tracing. Recently, semi-automated techniques for measuring LAV, based on 2D speckle …

Introduction The accuracy of real time three‐dimensional echocardiography (RT‐3DE) in
evaluating left atrial volume (LAV) of heart transplant recipients against cardiac magnetic …