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PLoS One
December 2024
Department of Radiology, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States of America.
Background: Imaging both electrical and mechanical cardiac function can better characterize cardiac disease and improve patient care. Currently, there is no noninvasive technique that can simultaneously image both electrical and mechanical function of the whole heart at the point of care. Here, our aim is to demonstrate that high volume-rate echocardiography can simultaneously map cardiac electromechanical activation and end-systolic cardiac strain of the whole heart in a single heartbeat.
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January 2025
The Internist Cardiologist, Department of Cardiology, Al Watani Hospital, Hama, Syria.
Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes
November 2024
Division of Primary Care and Population Health, Department of Medicine (S.M.R.K., S.V., D.W.G., D.V., J.B., E.A.S.-G., C.G.B.-J., S.A.T., M.W.), Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA.
Background: A limited transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE) can be an appropriate, lower-cost substitute for a full TTE. We assessed the impact of an electronic health record alternative alert promoting the adoption of limited TTEs on the ordering practices of cardiology clinicians and primary care providers and captured their perspectives on the initiative.
Methods: The alert was deployed in a cardiology clinic and 4 primary care clinics at an academic medical center.
Prehosp Emerg Care
November 2024
Department of Emergency Medicine, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Newark, New Jersey.
Objectives: Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA) is a frequently encountered pathology with resultant poor outcomes in the majority of patients. Echocardiography has been utilized to help guide clinical decision making and monitor effectiveness of resuscitative efforts. Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) the mainstay of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) real time resuscitative imaging has limitations, most notably is the disruption of closed chest compressions.
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October 2024
Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine University of California San Diego La Jolla California USA.
Right ventricle (RV)-to-pulmonary artery (PA) coupling measured by the ratio of echocardiography-derived tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion (TAPSE) and pulmonary artery systolic pressure (PASP) is a meaningful prognostic marker in pulmonary hypertension (PH). It's unclear if balloon pulmonary angioplasty (BPA) treatment of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) alters RV-PA coupling measured by TAPSE/PASP. We reviewed CTEPH patients treated with BPA at our institution who had a transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE) before BPA and a follow-up TTE at any point during BPA.
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