Background: Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is often still considered the
echocardiographic test of choice in the general ICU patient population to establish the …

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most commonly encountered cardiac arrhythmia in clinical
practice. However, current therapeutic interventions for atrial fibrillation have limited clinical …

Prolongation of survival resulting from cancer treatment has resulted in cardiac toxicity
becoming the main determinant of quality of life, and in some cases, premature mortality …

Purpose: Right ventricular (RV) systolic function as measured by right ventricular ejection
fraction (RVEF) has long been recognized as an important predictor of outcome in heart …

Objectives This study sought to determine the long-term prognostic value of myocardial
deformation imaging by echocardiography in risk stratification of sudden cardiac death …

Objectives To analyse the effect of the implementation of a transcatheter aortic valve
replacement (TAVR) and multidisciplinary heart team programme on mortality in severe …

Objective We sought to objectively quantify the independent impact of significant mitral
regurgitation (MR) on prognosis in patients with multiple comorbidities and ascertain the …

Background Transcatheter mitral valve implantation for degenerated bioprostheses has
recently emerged as an alternative to redo mitral valve surgery, particularly in patients at …

Aims The aims of this study were (1) to evaluate the relationship between novel two-
dimensional transthoracic indices of left atrial (LA) mechanical function (speckle-tracking …

Recently it has been demonstrated that high resolution transthoracic echocardiography
(HRTTE) is able to detect differences in the wall thickness of the left anterior descending …