Carotid intima-media thickness values are significantly higher in patients with prediabetes compared to normal glucose metabolism.

Carotid intima-media thickness (C-IMT) increases in patients with adult type-2 diabetes mellitus (DM) and is used for early detection of macrovascular complications. We aimed to investigate the change of C-IMT in prediabetes and type-2 DM patients compared to subjects with normal glucose metabolism (NGM).A total of 180 individuals (60 subjects with NGM, 60 patients with prediabetes and 60 patients with type-2 DM) were included in this study.

Aortic intima-media thickness can be used to determine target organ damage in adult patients with coronary artery disease risk factors.

Introduction: We aimed to evaluate the relationship between abdominal aortic intima-media thickness (AA-IMT) and thoracic aortic intima-media thickness (TA-IMT) values and to investigate their relationship with common carotid intima-media thickness (CC-IMT) in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) risk factors.

Material And Methods: This study included 100 patients who underwent transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) examination for different reasons with at least one CAD risk factor. CC-IMT, AA-IMT, and TA-IMT values were measured.

QT Prolongation and Associated Ventricular Tachycardia due to Cardiac Iron Load in a Patient with Thalassemia Major.

We report the case of a 23-year-old male with thalassemia major who developed long QT and continuous ventricular tachycardia (VT). Electrocardiography, echocardiography, and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) were used for diagnosis and risk stratification. VT causes and treatments are presented and discussed.

Age should be considered in cut-off values for increased carotid intima-media thickness.

Objective: The current guidelines use a cut-off value of 0.9 mm to define abnormally increased carotid intima-media thickness (C-IMT), regardless of age or gender. This study was conducted to examine the effects of age and gender on C-IMT and cut-off values for C-IMT in different age groups.

Tp-e interval, Tp-e/QT and Tp-e/QTc ratio in hypertensive patients with primary aldosteronism.

: There is no study evaluating the Tp-e/QT and Tp-e/QTc ratios with T wave peak to end interval (Tp-e interval) used for evaluation of cardiac arrhythmia risk and ventricular repolarization changes in patients with primary aldosteronism (PA). We aimed to investigate whether there was a change in Tp-e interval, Tp-e/QT and Tp-e/QTc ratios in patients with PA.: Thirty patients with newly diagnosed hypertension (HT) and PA and 30 patients with primary HT were included.

Renal cortical stiffness is markedly increased in pre-diabetes mellitus and associated with albuminuria.

Introduction: We aimed to investigate changes in renal cortical stiffness (CS) in Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) and pre-DM patients compared to subjects with normal glucose metabolism (NGM), as well as the usefulness of renal CS to determine the presence of nephropathy.

Methods: This study included 125 individuals with NGM, pre-DM and Type 2 DM. Routine laboratory data was obtained, and micro- and macrovascular involvement were investigated.

Decreased left atrial global longitudinal strain predicts the risk of atrial fibrillation recurrence after cryoablation in paroxysmal atrial fibrillation.

Purpose: We aimed to investigate the association of atrial fibrillation (AF) recurrence with left atrial (LA) strain in nonvalvular paroxysmal AF patients after cryoablation.

Methods: We included 190 patients who underwent successful cryoablation due to paroxysmal AF. In addition to classical echocardiographic data, LA apical 2-chamber (A2C) strain, LA apical 4-chamber (A4C) strain, and LA global longitudinal strain (LA-GLS) values were calculated by speckle tracking echocardiography.

Liver stiffness obtained by ElastPQ ultrasound shear wave elastography independently determines mean right atrial pressure.

Purpose: We aimed to investigate the relationship between right atrial pressure (RAP) and liver stiffness (LS) determined by liver elastography (LE) during cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) in patients with heart failure (HF) and conventional pacemaker (PM) implantation in patients without HF.

Methods: 60 patients with HF who underwent CRT and 60 patients without HF who underwent PM were enrolled. Routine echocardiography and laboratory examinations were performed.

CTRP3 is Significantly Decreased in Patients with Primary Hyperparathyroidism and Closely Related with Osteoporosis.

Background: Adipokines derived from adipocytes are one of the important factors that act as circulating regulators of bone metabolism. Complement C1q/tumor necrosis factor-related protein-3 (CTRP3), a paralog of adiponectin, is are member of the CTRP superfamily. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of serum CTRP3 in the development of osteoporosis in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism.

The relationship between blood glucose and nocturnal supraventricular tachycardia attacks in non-diabetic patients.

Purpose: Decrease in the blood glucose level may trigger the tachycardia or bradycardia because it has an arrhythmogenic effect on the heart. Our purpose in this study was to investigate whether the blood glucose level has an effect on patients who attended to the hospital with nocturnal supraventricular tachycardia (SVT).

Methods: We included 151 patients in our study who have SVT history.

Can QT interval prolongation or dispersion detected in a positive exercise ECG test predict critical coronary artery disease?

Introduction: Exercise electrocardiography (EET) is frequently used in coronary artery disease, but the specificity of this test is very low. In the literature, parameters such as QT prolongation and QT dispersion which show coronary artery disease and arrhythmia were not sufficiently investigated using EET. The aim of this study was to investigate whether QT interval prolongation or dispersion (QT disp) in a positive EET test could predict critical coronary artery disease (CAD).

Increased renal cortical stiffness obtained by share-wave elastography imaging significantly predicts the contrast-induced nephropathy in patients with preserved renal function.

Purpose: We aimed to investigate the relation between renal cortical stiffness (CS) obtained by shear-wave elastography (SWE) and contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) development in interventional treatment-planned acute coronary syndrome (ACS) patients.

Methods: Our study group consisted of 465 ACS patients. Routine laboratory assessments, B-mode, Doppler, and SWE renal ultrasonography (USG) evaluations were performed.

The relationship between visible thrombus aspiration material with no-reflow and in-hospital mortality ratio in patients with anterior ST-elevation myocardial infarction treated with primary percutaneous coronary intervention.

Objective: The benefit of intracoronary thrombus aspiration (TA) during primary percutaneous coronary intervention (pPCI) in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is not yet fully clear. The aim of this study was to investigate the clinical impact of visible thrombus aspiration (VTA) material.

Methods: A total of 295 patients with a Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) flow score of 0 or 1 after an anterior STEMI were included in the study.

Increased renal cortical stiffness in patients with advanced diabetic kidney disease.

We aimed to determine whether cortical stiffness (CS) values obtained by point shear wave elastography (pSWE) were increased in patients with diabetic kidney disease (DKD) according to increased disease stage and to determine the parameters associated with CS value in the same patient group. A total of 120 patients with Type-II diabetes mellitus who developed DKD and 22 healthy controls were included in the study. In addition to routine laboratory tests and renal ultrasonography (USG), CS levels were measured using pSWE.

Usability of Achilles tendon strain elastography for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease.

Purpose: There are close relationships between major coronary artery disease (CAD) risk factors and Achilles tendon thickness (AT-T) and AT strain ratio (AT-SR). Our aim was to evaluate the diagnostic importance of AT-T and AT-SR as obtained by ultrasonography (USG) and strain elastography (SE) for predicting CAD.

Materials And Methods: One hundred and eighty-four patients scheduled to undergo coronary angiography were included in the study.

Prediabetes Is Associated With Increased Liver Stiffness Identified by Noninvasive Liver Fibrosis Assessment: ElastPQ Ultrasound Shear Wave Elastography Study.

Patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) have been shown to have increased liver fibrosis (LF) as determined by liver elastography. However, the data on LF incidence in patients with prediabetes are scarce. This study was undertaken to determine the incidence of LF and associated parameters in prediabetic patients.

Elastography detected solid organ stiffness increased in patients with acromegaly.

Elastography is a method to examine the increase in solid organs stiffness (SOS), and there is no data in the literature regarding to its use in patients with acromegaly. In this study, we aimed to investigate the change of SOS in patients with acromegaly and to determine the parameters closely related to SOS in same patient groups.We included 40 subjects with acromegaly and 40 healthy control subjects.

Hypertension is Common in Patients with Newly Diagnosed Acromegaly and is Independently Associated with Renal Resistive Index.

Introduction: There are conflicting results regarding the frequency of hypertension (HT) and values of related parameters in patients with acromegaly.

Aim: We aimed to determine the frequency of HT and values of its associated parameters in patients with acromegaly.

Methods: 57 patients with newly diagnosed acromegaly were included in this study.

A new criterion to differentiate atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia from atrioventricular reciprocating tachycardia: Combined AVR criterion.

Aim: A combined aVR criterion is described as the presence of a pseudo r' wave in aVR during tachycardia in patients without r' wave in aVR in sinus rhythm and/or a ≥50% increase in r' wave amplitude compared to sinus rhythm in patients with r' wave in the basal aVR lead. We aimed to investigate the use of combined aVR criterion in differential diagnosis of atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia (AVNRT) and atrioventricular reciprocating tachycardia (AVRT).

Methods: In this prospective study, 480 patients with inducible narrow QRS supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) were included.

Renal resistive index significantly increased in hypertensive children and it is independently related to the pulse pressure and left ventricular mass index.

: To the best our knowledge there is no data in the literature related to changes in renal resistive index (RRI) values in children who have hypertension (HT). In this study, we aimed to investigate the changes of RRI values and it is usability in children with HT. : A total of 75 children; 48 with newly diagnosed HT and 27 healthy controls were included in the study.

Color Doppler ultrasonography is a reliable diagnostic tool in the diagnosis of extracranial vertebral artery dissections.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the role of color Doppler sonography (CDS) in the diagnosis of extracranial vertebral artery dissections (EVADs). One hundred and fifty consecutive patients (age range 21-51 years, mean 44 years) with a clinical suspicion of vertebral artery dissection (VAD) were included in this study. All patients underwent CDS of vertebral arteries as the first-line imaging modality.

Increased carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity and common carotid artery intima-media thickness obtained to assess target organ damage in hypertensive patients are closely related.

Background: Increased carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (CF-PWV) and increased carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) in hypertension (HT) patients are indicators of asymptomatic organ damage. The relationship between carotid IMT and CF-PWV has been shown; studies comparing CF-PWV and IMT values within different vascular regions are limited. We aimed to investigate the relationship between IMT value measured from different anatomical regions and CF-PWV, and the localization of IMT that determines increased CF-PWV best.