Quantification of cardiac chamber size, ventricular mass, and function ranks among the
most clinically important and most frequently requested tasks of echocardiography. …

The rapid technological developments of the past decade and the changes in echocardiographic
practice brought about by these developments have resulted in the need for updated …

Quantification of cardiac chamber size, ventricular mass and function ranks among the most
clinically important and most frequently requested tasks of echocardiography. Over the last …

An extensive review of past, present and future research on extrasolar planets is given in the
article “Extrasolar Planets” by N. Santos et al. in the present issue of The Messenger. Here …

Background— Although echocardiography is used in diagnosis and management of myocardial
infarction, it has not been established whether specific features of cardiac structure or …

… Mitochondrial respiratory function of permeabilized myofibers was determined as per Picard
and coworkers (14). Rates of oxygen consumption were expressed as nanomoles of oxygen …

Background— In 1994, an International Task Force proposed criteria for the clinical diagnosis
of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy/dysplasia (ARVC/D) that facilitated …

Background The leading cause of death in patients hospitalized for acute myocardial
infarction is cardiogenic shock. We conducted a randomized trial to evaluate early …

Background Among patients with stable coronary disease and moderate or severe ischemia,
whether clinical outcomes are better in those who receive an invasive intervention plus …

… This was followed in 1976 by its use with M-mode echocardiography 2 and then in 1977 by
two-dimensional (2D) imaging using a mechanical scanning transducer. The modern era of …