Masaki Izumo,Yoshihiro J Akashi
Masaki Izumo
Since the introduction of transcatheter structural heart intervention, the term "structural heart disease" has been widely used in the field of cardiology. Structural heart disease refers to congenital heart disease, valvular heart disease,...
Intracardiac echocardiography to diagnose pannus formation after aortic valve replacement [0.03%]
主动脉瓣置换术后应用腔内心脏超声诊断赘生物形成
Yoshiya Yamamoto,Takahiro Ohara,Akira Funada et al.
Yoshiya Yamamoto et al.
A 66-year-old female, under regular follow-up for 20 years after aortic valve replacement (19-mm Carbomedics), presented dyspnea on effort and hypotension during hemodialysis. A transthoracic echocardiogram showed elevation of transvalvular...
Echocardiographic assessment of takotsubo cardiomyopathy: beyond apical ballooning [0.03%]
takošeng gǎndòng de húquàn jiǎnduì：超出顶泡样変化
Hiroyuki Okura
Hiroyuki Okura
It has been >25 years since the first report of the takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TC). Although left ventriculography was originally used to depict its typical and impressive wall motion abnormality mimicking "takotsubo", or octopus pot, echoca...
Rest and exercise echocardiography for early detection of pulmonary hypertension [0.03%]
休息和运动负荷超声心动图在早期检测肺动脉高压中的应用价值
Kenya Kusunose,Hirotsugu Yamada
Kenya Kusunose
Early detection of pulmonary hypertension (PH) is essential to ensure that patients receive timely and appropriate treatment for this progressive disease. Rest and exercise echocardiography has been used to screen patients in an attempt to ...
Evaluation of right atrial function using right atrial speckle tracking analysis in patients with pulmonary artery hypertension [0.03%]
右心房斑点追踪在肺动脉高压患者右心房功能评价中的应用研究
Konomi Sakata,Yoichiro Uesugi,Aoi Isaka et al.
Konomi Sakata et al.
Background: In patients with pulmonary artery hypertension (PAH), right ventricular pressure overload eventually causes right heart failure (RHF), leading to a poor prognosis. Right atrial (RA) overload and RA dysfunction...
A calcified amorphous tumor that developed on both sides of the atrioventricular valve annulus [0.03%]
累及房室环双侧的钙化形态不确定肿瘤
Masaki Kinoshita,Hideki Okayama,Go Kawamura et al.
Masaki Kinoshita et al.
We report a rare case of a hemodialysis patient with a calcified amorphous tumor (CAT) on both sides of the atrioventricular valve annulus. A 70-year-old female who had received hemodialysis for 23 years because of chronic glomerulonephriti...
Kunio Miyatake
Kunio Miyatake
Point-of-care echocardiography for aortic dissection, pulmonary embolism and acute coronary syndrome in patients with killer chest pain: EASY screening focused on the assessment of effusion, aorta, ventricular size and shape and ventricular asynergy [0.03%]
针对主动脉夹层、肺栓塞和急性冠状动脉综合征患者的“杀手性胸痛”的超声心动图床旁筛查：以积液、主动脉、心室大小及形态以及节段性室壁运动异常评估为主的EASY筛查法
Kazuhiro Nishigami
Kazuhiro Nishigami
Focus assessed transthoracic echocardiography and focused cardiac ultrasound are point-of-care echo protocols for the evaluation of cardiac disease in the emergency room; however, these protocols may not adequately assess aortic dissection,...
Kristopher P Kline,David E Winchester
Kristopher P Kline
Pulmonary embolism due to right atrial free-floating thrombus during echocardiographic examination: a case of a pulmonary saddle thrombus [0.03%]
经食道超声心动图检查过程中右心房游离血栓导致的肺动脉拴塞——一例鞍状肺栓塞病例报告
Mika Bando,Hirotsugu Yamada,Kenya Kusunose et al.
Mika Bando et al.
A 69-year-old female with polymyositis was referred to our hospital with a chief complaint of dyspnea. Transthoracic echocardiography showed right ventricular overloading. In addition to two-dimensional echocardiography, observation of the ...