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51. Pathogenic FBN1 Mutations in 146 Adults Not Meeting Clinical Diagnostic Criteria for Marfan Syndrome: Further Delineation of Type 1 Fibrillinopathies and Focus on Patients With an Isolated Major Criterion

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Faivre, L., Collod-Beroud, G., Callewaert, B., Child, A., Loeys, B. L., Binquet, C., Gautier, E., Arbustini, E., Mayer, K., Arslan-Kirchner, M., Kiotsekoglou, A., Comeglio, P., Grasso, M., Beroud, C., Bonithon-Kopp, C., Claustres, M., Stheneur, C., Bouchot, O., Wolf, J. E., Robinson, P. N., Adès, L., De Backer, J., Coucke, P., Francke, U., De Paepe, A., Boileau, C., and Jondeau, G.

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2009
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54. Contribution of molecular analyses in diagnosing Marfan syndrome and type I fibrillinopathies: an international study of 1009 probands

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Faivre, L, Collod-Beroud, G, Child, A, Callewaert, B, Loeys, B L, Binquet, C, Gautier, E, Arbustini, E, Mayer, K, Arslan-Kirchner, M, Stheneur, C, Kiotsekoglou, A, Comeglio, P, Marziliano, N, Halliday, D, Beroud, C, Bonithon-Kopp, C, Claustres, M, Plauchu, H, Robinson, P N, Adès, L, De Backer, J, Coucke, P, Francke, U, De Paepe, A, Boileau, C, and Jondeau, G

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2008
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55. Deformation imaging of the atria using 2D strain: A noninvasive modality to characterize operating compliance?

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Samir K. Saha, Aasha S. Gopal, and Anatoli Kiotsekoglou

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medicine.medical_specialty, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, Deformation (meteorology), Left atrial strain, 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Internal medicine, Atrial Fibrillation, Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted, medicine, Humans, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging, Heart Atria, cardiovascular diseases, 2d strain, Aged, 80 and over, Modality (human–computer interaction), business.industry, Atrial fibrillation, Atrial Function, medicine.disease, Compliance (physiology), medicine.anatomical_structure, Echocardiography, Ventricle, cardiovascular system, Cardiology, Right atrium, Female, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, business
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This viewpoint with two illustrated case summaries of biventricular and biatrial mechanical function/dysfunction emphasizes the importance of continued research in deformation imaging beyond the left ventricle, as there are no Cinderellas in the heart and we just cannot afford to be nonchalant toward the atria, particularly the right atrium.

Published
2018

56. Biatrial and right ventricular deformation imaging: Implications of the recent EACVI consensus document in the clinics and beyond

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Aasha S. Gopal, Anatoli Kiotsekoglou, Samir K. Saha, and Per Lindqvist

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medicine.medical_specialty, Consensus, Heart Diseases, Heart Ventricles, Speckle tracking echocardiography, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, Right atrial, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Left atrial, Internal medicine, Medicine, Humans, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging, 030212 general & internal medicine, Heart Atria, Pulmonary hemodynamics, Societies, Medical, Cardiac problems, business.industry, Atrial fibrillation, medicine.disease, Europe, Atrial strain, Echocardiography, Heart failure, Practice Guidelines as Topic, Cardiology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, business
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In this review, right ventricular (RV), right atrial (RA), and left atrial (LA) strain in some selected clinical situations has been discussed in light of the current literature. To exemplify the significance of the use of multichamber strain, we have provided some illustrations of common cardiac problems. The recently published European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) consensus document for standardization of RV, RA, and LA strain, using the currently available software, has fulfilled the aspirations of investigators world over who have been studying atrial strain using a bailed-out algorithm designed principally to quantify left ventricular deformation. The purpose of this review was to reiterate the value of the application of RV and biatrial strain imaging in research and day-to-day clinical practice, using the 2-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography (2D-STE). Also, we present a short report on how RA strain may remain coupled to pulmonary hemodynamics. Besides, we have highlighted the technical challenges of atrial strain quantification. We have not used the nomenclature of chamber deformation proposed by the EACVI document as the publications cited in this review have used different sets of nomenclature.

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2019

58. Value of speckle tracking echocardiography for prediction of stroke risk in atrial fibrillation: Time to spare a stare outside the box?

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Anatoli Kiotsekoglou and Samir K. Saha

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medicine.medical_specialty, Left atrium, Speckle tracking echocardiography, macromolecular substances, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, Stroke risk, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Internal medicine, Atrial Fibrillation, medicine, Humans, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging, Atrial Appendage, cardiovascular diseases, 030212 general & internal medicine, Thrombus, integumentary system, business.industry, Atrial fibrillation, Thrombosis, medicine.disease, Stroke, medicine.anatomical_structure, Echocardiography, Spare part, Cardiology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, business, Value (mathematics), Echocardiography, Transesophageal
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Value of speckle tracking echocardiography for prediction of stroke risk in atrial fibrillation : Time to spare a stare outside the box?

Published
2018

59. Incremental prognostic value of multichamber deformation imaging and renal function status to predict adverse outcome in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction

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Saha, Samir Kanti, Luo, Xia-Xia, Gopal, Aasha S., Govind, Satish C., Fang, Fang, Liu, Ming, Zhang, Qing, Ma, Chunyan, Dong, Ming, Kiotsekoglou, Anatoli, Yu, Cheuk-Man, Saha, Samir Kanti, Luo, Xia-Xia, Gopal, Aasha S., Govind, Satish C., Fang, Fang, Liu, Ming, Zhang, Qing, Ma, Chunyan, Dong, Ming, Kiotsekoglou, Anatoli, and Yu, Cheuk-Man

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Aims: Deformation imaging, particularly of left‐sided heart, is fast becoming an essential tool in clinical cardiology. However, data are scant regarding the value of biventricular and bi‐atrial deformation in association with comorbidities in heart failure with reduced left ventricular ejection fraction (HFREF). Methods and Results: Forty‐nine subjects (72 ± 13 years; 28 male) with HFREF and 14 age‐matched controls underwent deformation imaging including LV global longitudinal strain (LVGLS%), right ventricular strain (RVS%), and left atrial reservoir strain (LARS%). Standard echo parameters included LVEF%, E/E′ ratio, and pulmonary artery systolic pressure (PASP). Mean ± SD of LVEF, LVGLS%, and RVS% were 31% ± 8%, 7% ± 3%, and 17% ± 7%, respectively, and were significantly lower compared with controls (all P < .0001). Over a follow‐up period of 4.2 years, 24% of patients died and 48% had a composite outcome of death and heart failure hospitalization. In the logistic regression model, taking the composite of death and heart failure hospitalization as a dichotomous variable, RVS%, E/E′ ratio, and PASP were the only significant univariate predictors of adverse outcome (R2 = .68, all P < .05). In the multivariate model, however, only PASP predicted adverse outcome. PASP also had the largest AUC (0.8) in the ROC analysis. A creatinine level of >88 μmol/L (SCREAT) and a cutoff value of LA reservoir strain (LARS %) at <16.7% provided the best sensitivity (86%) and specificity (40%) with an odds ratio of 3.8. In the Kaplan–Meier survival estimate, LARS%‐SCREAT predicted all‐cause mortality and HF hospitalization. Conclusion: Multichamber deformation imaging along with renal function and PASP could best predict adverse outcome in HFREF.

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2018
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62. Deformation imaging of the atria using 2D strain : A noninvasive modality to characterize operating compliance?

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Saha, Samir K., Kiotsekoglou, Anatoli, Gopal, Aasha S., Saha, Samir K., Kiotsekoglou, Anatoli, and Gopal, Aasha S.

Abstract

This viewpoint with two illustrated case summaries of biventricular and biatrial mechanical function/dysfunction emphasizes the importance of continued research in deformation imaging beyond the left ventricle, as there are no Cinderellas in the heart and we just cannot afford to be nonchalant toward the atria, particularly the right atrium.

Published
2018
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64. Speckle tracking-derived mechanical dispersion of left atrial myocardial deformation: An essential parameter in atrial fibrillation management?

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Samir K. Saha and Anatoli Kiotsekoglou

Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty, Left atrium, macromolecular substances, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, Deformation (meteorology), 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging, 03 medical and health sciences, Speckle pattern, 0302 clinical medicine, Left atrial, Internal medicine, Dispersion (optics), Atrial Fibrillation, medicine, Humans, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging, cardiovascular diseases, Heart Atria, business.industry, P wave, Atrial fibrillation, medicine.disease, medicine.anatomical_structure, Echocardiography, Strain rate imaging, cardiovascular system, Cardiology, Atrial Function, Left, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, business
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Speckle tracking-derived mechanical dispersion of left atrial myocardial deformation : An essential parameter in atrial fibrillation management?

Published
2017

65. Right atrial myocardial deformation by two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography predicts recurrence in paroxysmal atrial fibrillation

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Anatoli Kiotsekoglou, Malini Govindan, Samir K. Saha, and A. John Camm

Subjects
Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, Speckle tracking echocardiography, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, Right atrial, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Recurrence, Internal medicine, Atrial Fibrillation, Medicine, Humans, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging, In patient, cardiovascular diseases, 030212 general & internal medicine, Heart Atria, Prospective Studies, Paroxysmal AF, Aged, business.industry, Myocardium, P wave, Reproducibility of Results, Atrial fibrillation, Heart, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Echocardiography, Doppler, Color, Echocardiography, Right heart, cardiovascular system, Cardiology, Ventricular Function, Right, Female, business
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BACKGROUND: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a bi-atrial disease yet little attention has been given to right heart function in AF. We propose that the assessment of right atrial (RA) and right ventricular function (RV) using two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography (2D-STE) could be valuable in predicting AF recurrence in patients with paroxysmal AF (PAF). METHODS: Thirty patients with PAF were prospectively recruited from a dedicated AF clinic. Right atrial size, volume, and area and RV dimensions were analyzed along with RA and RV strain derived from 2D-STE at baseline and at 3 and 12 months. RESULTS: Higher RA booster strain independently predicted sinus rhythm (SR) maintenance for up to 1 year (P = 0.001). RV strain was impaired in patients with recurrent AF compared to those in SR (P

Published
2017

66. Dobutamine stress echocardiography in pulmonary hypertension: A taste of old wine in a new bottle

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Samir K. Saha, Anatoli Kiotsekoglou, and Stephan Söderberg

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Taste, medicine.medical_specialty, business.product_category, Dobutamine stress echocardiography, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Dobutamine, Internal medicine, medicine, Bottle, Humans, 030212 general & internal medicine, Wine, business.industry, digestive, oral, and skin physiology, food and beverages, medicine.disease, Pulmonary hypertension, Echocardiography, Hypertension, Exercise Test, Cardiology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, business, Echocardiography, Stress, medicine.drug
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Dobutamine stress echocardiography in pulmonary hypertension : A taste of old wine in a new bottle

Published
2018

67. Taking a deeper insight into the burden of cardiac amyloidosis: Has 3D speckle tracking echocardiographic strain come of age?

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Samir K. Saha and Anatoli Kiotsekoglou

Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty, business.industry, Amyloidosis, Reproducibility of Results, Strain (injury), 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, medicine.disease, 03 medical and health sciences, Speckle pattern, 0302 clinical medicine, Cardiac amyloidosis, Echocardiography, Internal medicine, Cardiology, Humans, Medicine, 030212 general & internal medicine, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, business
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Taking a deeper insight into the burden of cardiac amyloidosis : Has 3D speckle tracking echocardiographic strain come of age?

Published
2018

68. Poster session Friday 13 December - PM: 13/12/2013, 14:00-18:00 * Location: Poster area

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A. Rojek, M. Bekbossynova, J. Onaindia, R. Ferrer Lopez, B. Javani, A. Sharif-Rasslan, N. Al, R. Davies, U. Ikeda, R. Ferreira, A. Cincin, M. Plewka, F. Weidemann, B. Fadel, O. Akgul, Z. Frikha, M. Haghjoo, J. Jensen, G. Agoston, M. Sunbul, R. Strasser, M. Pepi, Y. Fuku, M. Minamisawa, J. Holm, O. Dzikowska Diduch, Y. Pya, J. Macancela Quinones, P. Gaudron, G. Ertl, S. Thivolet, C. Koukoulis, H. Yun, S. Iancovici, D. Capodanno, M. Barthelet, A. Medeiros-Domingo, T. Le Tourneau, A. P. Lee, G. Derumeaux, I. Rodriguez, B. Naegeli, S. Rahmatullah, A. Bayes, H. Schaff, A. M. Caggegi, C. Zito, M. D'alto, R. Favilli, J. Baan, M. Aydin, J. Bonaque Gonzalez, A. Akhundova, I. Cruz, R. Karpov, H. Okura, D. Dequanter, M. T. Grillo, A. Ingvarsson, S. Prasad, A. Dahiya, U. Rosenschein, G. Sinagra, J. Kochanowski, M. Niemann, Y. Saijo, B. Bouma, K. Sveric, Y. Topilsky, M. Ministeri, J. Piek, C. Marinescu, M. Bilik, I. Ikuta, M. Al-Admawi, C. Araujo, D. Trifunovic, S. Onciul, G. Pavlidis, F. Ruiz Lopez, M. Oyumlu, C. Kenny, F. Kayan, C. Ginghina, R. Piatkowski, I. Lekuona Goya, A. Almeida, G. Portugal, H. Motoki, M. Cinteza, B. Seifert, S. Lee, M. Banovic, T. Sakakura, A. Pappalardo, B. Stuart, Y. Chuyasova, T. Yamanaka, N. Roche, C. Wunderlich, X. Arana, L. Ernande, V. Ribeiro, Y. Tanabe, L. Vazdar, Y. Tayyareci, E. Malev, M. Eren, J. Gil, S. Lunghetti, D. Krieger, S. Mangiafico, M. Izumo, D. Cacela, A. Kovacs, A E Van Den Bosch, E. Reffo, P. G. Jorgensen, O. Dubourg, J. Abreu, S. Wang, E. Cervesato, K. Theodoropoulos, N. Ozaydogdu, L. Jung, Y. Kijima, E. Ostenfeld, C. Corsi, M. Florescu, M. Chenilleau, K. Yokota, A. Faeh-Gunz, R. Winter, J. Dreyfus, D. Kang, S. K. Saha, S. Surdulli, L. Abikeyeva, M. Marchel, P. Meregalli, M. Yamat, X. Arana Achaga, C. Shahla, V. Palicka, M. Tanaka, A. Galrinho, K. Endo, M. Saravi, J. Bogaert, H. Oeygarden, S. Okabe, J. Reiken, G. Ionescu, C. Selton-Suty, A. Nunes-Diogo, E. S. Davidsen, E. Kinova, A. Bandeira, Y. Seo, S. Hojberg, G. Siblini, M. Pellegrino, M. Ostojic, J. J. Onaindia Gandarias, M. Pereira, F. Antonini-Canterin, F. Akturk, T. Nakajima, M. Al Fayyadh, S. Herrmann, G. Stellin, M. E. Menting, B. Sasko, J. Song, T. Kurokawa, F. Dipasqua, T. Maruo, M. Geleijnse, H. Triantafyllidi, M. Komeda, R. Praus, V. Nesvetov, M. Fineschi, A. Auricchio, M. Dorobantu, A. Degirmencioglu, E. Laraudogoitia Zaldumbide, S. Velasco Del Castillo, Z. Marcetic, U. Waje-Andreassen, F. Fang, K. Farsalinos, L. Vasina, D. Muraru, M. Faludi, P. Rio, S. Peppes, T. Karaahmet, G. Suermeci, P. Maccarthy, S. Kotsovilis, Y. Akashi, G. Di Salvo, Z. Issa, J. Gibbs, A. Poletti, E. Bonnefoy-Cudraz, A. Madej-Pilarczyk, E. Gerdts, K. Solymossy, P. Kogoj, T. Tomita, M. Lisi, K. Suzuki, S. Sifakis, E.A. Surkova, T. Fritz-Hansen, V. Tritakis, E. Romeo, T. Akesson-Lindow, B. Lasota, A. Florian, M. Maciel, K. Gieszczyk-Strozik, M. Imazio, S. Ozyilmaz, K. Kadota, V. Peric, E. Zencirci, B. Tzvetkov, U. Aguirre Larracoechea, D. Caldeira, Y. Motoyoshi, M. Russo, R. Suri, H. Pintaric, O. Celik, D. Himbert, L. Branco, B. Sun, S. Dzhetybayeva, A. Esen Zencirci, M. Ciurzynski, R. Nunyez, B. Iung, K. Takenaka, A. S. Omran, K. Ozden, J. Argacha, S. Pradel, A. M. Pistritto, M. Pfyffer, C. Dedobbeleer, J. Vojacek, P. Costa, E. Albuquerque, A. Tamadoni, B. Sarubbi, M. Carlsson, R. Mogelvang, G. Oria, K. Kimura, E. Kim, F. Kousathana, A. Mateescu, A. Varga, J. Clerc, M. Noni, S. Kyrzopoulos, S. Andossova, S. Almeida, E. Shkolnik, J. Koyama, M. Daimon, S. Saeed, B. Popescu, M. Tigen, R. Wennemann, C. Venner, M. Guazzi, R. Magalhaes, H. Hayashi, M. Salagianni, A. Kiotsekoglou, A. Baggiano, C. Chao, T. Nakao, H. Becher, R. Zeppellini, J. Marrugat, G. Erente, P. Lancellotti, R. Rimbas, D. M'barek, M. Cameli, Y. Katahira, S. Carerj, C. Grasso, P. Moulin, D. Lavergne, B. Merkely, D. Mahoney, C. Tamburino, W. Kosmala, G. Romagna, T. Potpara, T. Ha, R. Biffanti, C. Dundar, E. Gunyeli, L. Weinert, R. Dworakowski, A. Ferreira, T. Biering-Sorensen, H. Engblom, M. Erturk, G. Varlan, M. Ikeda, L. Thorell, S Von Bardeleben, S. Palomar, K. Boerlage-Van Dijk, T. Ishizu, S. Stoerk, I. Germanakis, H. Yamamoto, Q. Shang, A. Borizanova, C. Fiorentini, R. Candinas, U. Inci, F. Macedo, O. Huttin, R. Pudil, I. D. Gabric, C. Silveira, I. Sari, V. Lambadiari, L. Laczmanski, E. Timofeev, A. Izgi, D. Bravo Bustos, K. Wierzbowska-Drabik, P. Masci, H. Pusuroglu, F. Navarro Garcia, P. Adhikari, K. Mizia-Stec, S. Celik, A. Medressova, S. Pala, R. Retkoceri, O. Tautu, S. Tzikas, S. Ohtsuki, T. Akbulut, S. Goliszek, K. Mitsudo, P. Palczewski, A. Spyrou, K. Filipiak, I. Tzoulaki, A. Erdem, M. Krupa, K. Yoshida, M. Polovina, J. Vanoverschelde, H. Pereira, K. Obase, O. V. Tereshina, J. Liebeton, L. Petrescu, W. Gin-Sing, T. A. Warsame, B. Lichodziejewska, M. Takeuchi, J. Cuypers, Y. Jung, E. Martins, S. Mondillo, D. Liu, D. Planinc, I. Subirana, S. Shahrzad, U. Richter, M. Prull, C.H. Attenhofer Jost, E. Alfonzetti, A. Kosztin, V. Carvalho, M. van Bracht, K. Shahgaldi, M. Altman, A. Cacicedo, R. Dulgheru, M. Arslan, L. Dell'angela, M. De Biasio, J. Roos-Hesselink, A. Sawant, B. Ghadrdoust, H. Tabuchi, I. Rangel, M. Aguado Martin, L. Pedro-Botet, K. Koch, G. Zugazabeitia Irazabal, I. Hausmanowa-Petrusewicz, A. Werther-Evaldsson, A. Korshunova, Q. Zhang, A. Anton Ladislao, C. Bergerot, F. Karlsen, T. Akagi, M. Jasinski, I. Komuro, A. Apor, L. Fourcade, P. Argiento, E. Zemtsovsky, A. Correra, J. Chudek, S. Choi, G. Barletta, A. Varela, A. Manouras, H. Oe, A. D'andrea, S. Ramezani, M. Akil, A. Azevedo, S. Imme, A. Ionac, E. Saracoglu, K. Nakagawa, O. Vinter, S. Reeva, G. Van Camp, T. Forster, T. Butz, I. Ikonomidis, A. Costa, M. Ruiz Lopez, D. Vinereanu, G. Opolski, K. Akay, A. Vrublevsky, J. Silva Marques, L. Sousa, F. D'ascenzi, N. Oprescu, F. Veronesi, A. Mysiak, R. Dan, M. Nobre Menezes, D. Kim, V. Vida, Y. Kim, V. Di Bello, D. Sharif, A. I. Nagy, A. Sikora-Puz, H. Moladoust, C. Florescu, M. Kostrubiec, L. Pierard, E. Ural, A. Goncalves, K. Grudzka, A. Charalampopoulos, A. Luycx-Bore, M. Wilkins, S. Mushtaq, D. Messika-Zeitoun, N. Olsen, C. Mornos, M. Tesic, R. Symons, S. Bekbossynov, H. Erer, M. Kokorina, I. Joao, C. Cotrim, D. Voilliot, M. Yamawaki, N. Roszczyk, J. Inamo, C. Sousa, A. Porto, I. Lekakis, A. G. Caelian, D. Rigopoulos, T. Komori, G. Pontone, S. Scandura, F. Melao, N. Toh, A. Neikova, V. Aboyans, S. La Carrubba, D. Zamfir, S. Dymarkowski, J. Magne, G. Szeplaki, S. Velasco, J. Mcghie, M. Losito, L. Shkolnik, M. Petrovic, I. Papadakis, D. Brito, I. Schilling, O. Bech-Hanssen, M. Enriquez-Sarano, C. Lafaras, O. Enescu, B. Bijnens, R. Lang, C. Lestuzzi, C. Kirma, N. Vallejo, F. Elmkies, M. Vasatova, N. Uslu, M. Yuksel, M. Anastasiou-Nana, G. Gatti, O. Milanesi, V. Donghi, A. Kozuka, C. Henri, K. Tsimopoulou, G. Karakus, A. Cerutti, J. Macancela Quinonez, E. Laraudogoitia, P. Unger, A. Roijer, K. Kurnicka, M. Carasi, D. Djikic, M. Dragovic, H. Aksu, S. Srivatsa, A. Khan, N. Maschietto, D. Cozma, V. Andreakos, C. Meurling, O. Wendler, C. Doulaptsis, E. Aliot, T. Damy, Z. Ojaghihaghighi, L. Mateu, S. Knop, M. Vis, M. Mizia, A. Khalil, E. Abate, M. Gomez Recio, J. Ko, M. Seo, D. Tsiapras, E. Tekbas, C. Celeng, K. Aonuma, M. Przewlocka-Kosmala, S. Laaraibi, T. Sahin, D. Mohty, P. Jorgensen, A. Fiarresga, C. Scharf, E. Conte, V. Pergola, C. Jons, M. Padalino, R. Krecki, M. Malicse, F. Parthenakis, N. Bolivar Herrera, G. Foldes, O. Vriz, J. Kasprzak, S. Janssens, H. Bejiqi, H. Nakajima, R. Naeije, E. Papadavid, A. Subinas, R. Calabro, M. Trbusic, W. Tomkowski, M. Ooshima, A N Vachev, A. Fotaki, E. Brochet, F. Scholz, A. Boshchenko, P. Massoure, S. Munoz Troyano, J. Zumalde, M. Tsakalou, E. Bertella, M. Carminati, A. Kalkan, Y. Miyashita, I. Comanescu, A. M. Esen, K. Nakamura, A. Sanchez Espino, G. Berkenboom, H. Trappe, B. Castaldi, M. Cielecka-Prynda, Y. Otsuji, R. Bejiqi, E. Caiani, A. Moreo, P. Vaida, J. Castillo, S. Stankovic, C. Davos, H. Murata, T. Komiya, K. Berta, A. Aussoleil, A. Yildiz, B. Piamonti, K. Sato, J. Silva-Cardoso, I. Popescu, R. Pap, A. Serafin, K. Addetia, F. Olsen, J. Cautela, C. Yu, R. El Mahmoud, C. Cardoso, N. Echahidi, V. Pyankov, T. Yamada, R. Hoffmann, H. Johno, L. Lopes, R. Li, R. Onut, J. Lekakis, G. Nicolosi, N. Watanabe, Y. Basaran, A. Matos, A. Chmiel, N. Host, M. Sabria, N. Gronkova, P. Hulek, H. Cakmak, E. Wiegerinck, A. Goudev, A. Romero Pereiro, A. Pellegrini, L. Badano, P. Cameli, N. Abdullah, M. Deja, A. Ekmekci, A. Vahanian, A. Retkoceri, V. Mor-Avi, H. Ito, N. Bindraban, T. Rigo, R. Vanderpool, N. Mansencal, M. K. Tigen, J. Bech, H. Thibault, A. Pshepiy, A. Decker-Bellaton, L. Saghy, Z. Al Bulbul, G. Generati, I. Nedeljkovic, Y. Kuatbayev, G. A. Derumeaux, M. Varoudi, Y. Juilliere, K. Uno, P. Virot, B.M. van Dalen, M. Witsenburg, E. Yamashita, K. Okada, E. Gomez, P. Pinto-Teixeira, T. Yambe, N. Preumont, K. Hu, R. Jalalian, A. Formenti, M. Monaghan, P. Pruszczyk, L. Massa, D. Andreini, A. Fromm, E. Stoupel, D. Ural, R. Pilliere, L. Llobera, W. Kim, M. Sobczak, F. Bandera, S. Oliveira, P. Mills, H. Zemir, E. Oner, S. Sparla, C. Cosgrove, S. Kou, A. Annoni, B. Vujisic-Tesic, M. Hojati, L. Carr, P. Meimoun, A. Jaccard, E. Varotto, N. Bulj, T. Kawata, M. Bulut, G. Dimitriadis, B. Ramondo, V. Voudris, H. Christensen, H. Eguchi, J. Grapsa, P. R. Silva Fazendas Adame, C. Cimadevilla, L. Christensen, M. Cikes, A. Izawa, G. Merchan Ortega, A. Makrigiannakis, M. Forkmann, G. Radegran, P. Dias, A. Faiz, C. Stefopoulos, Y. Vasyuk, A. Akyol, L. Howard, A. Correia, J. Younger, and C. Greis

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medicine.medical_specialty, business.industry, medicine, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging, Medical physics, General Medicine, Session (computer science), Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, business
Published
2013

69. Club35 Poster Session Thursday 12 December: 12/12/2013, 08:30-18:00 * Location: Poster area

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M. Montoro Lopez, A. Iniesta Manjavacas, R. Mori Junco, L. Pena Conde, I. Pons De Antonio, S. Garcia Blas, T. Lopez Fernandez, R. Moreno Gomez, M. Moreno Yanguela, J. Lopez Sendon, A. Carro, A. Kiotsekoglou, J. Andoh, S. Brown, J. Kaski, Y. Imamura, K. Arai, S. Uematsu, K. Fukushima, H. Hoshi, K. Ashihara, A. Takagi, N. Hagiwara, K. Gillis, G. Bala, B. Roosens, I. Remory, S. Droogmans, G. Van Camp, B. Cosyns, C. Van De Heyning, J. Magne, L. Pierard, P. Bruyere, L. Davin, C. De Maeyer, B. Paelinck, C. Vrints, P. Lancellotti, A. Borowiec, R. Dabrowski, I. Kowalik, B. Firek, T. Chwyczko, J. Janas, H. Szwed, V. Tufaro, G. Fragasso, G. Ingallina, C. Marini, A. Fisicaro, F. Loiacono, A. Margonato, E. Agricola, F. Ferreira, T. Pereira, J. Abreu, J. Labandeiro, A. Fiarresga, A. Ferreira, A. Galrinho, L. Branco, A. Timoteo, R. Ferreira, R. Marmol, M. Gomez, K. Garcia, D. Sanmiguel, C. Cabades, M. Monteagudo, C. Nunez, C. Fernandez, J. Diez, I. Roldan, M. Kolesnyk, M. Ancona, M. Oppizzi, M. Krestjyaninov, V. Razin, R. Gimaev, M. Carminati, C. Piazzese, W. Tsang, R. Lang, E. Caiani, S. Goncalves, A. Ramalho, R. Placido, L. Marta, N. Cortez Dias, A. Magalhaes, M. Menezes, S. Martins, A. Almeida, A. Nunes Diogo, T. M. Stokke, V. Ruddox, S. I. Sarvari, J. E. Otterstad, E. Aune, T. Edvardsen, D. Pirone, V. De Francesco, F. Marino, F. Gervasi, C. Demartini, C. Goffredo, M. Bono, S. Mega, M. Chello, G. Di Sciascio, M. Martin Hidalgo, T. Seoane Garcia, F. Carrasco Avalos, M. Mesa Rubio, M. Delgado Ortega, M. Ruiz Ortiz, F. Mazuelos Bellido, J. Suarez De Lezo Herrero De Tejada, M. Pan Alvarez De Osorio, J. Suarez De Lezo Cruz Conde, A. Lopez Granados, M. Romero Moreno, M. Pan Alvarez-Ossorio, F. Menichetti, M. Bongiorni, B. Ferro, L. Segreti, P. Bertini, R. Mariotti, R. Baldassarri, A. Di Cori, G. Zucchelli, F. Guarracino, A. Santoro, F. Federco Alvino, G. Giovanni Antonelli, R. Raffaella De Vito, R. Roberta Molle, S. Sergio Mondillo, Y. Mahmoud, M. Abdel-Kader, R. Guindy, S. Elzahwy, E. Dijkema, M. Molenschot, M. Slieker, C. Oliveira Da Silva, A. Sahlen, R. Winter, M. Back, A. Ruck, M. Settergren, A. Manouras, K. Shahgaldi, and V. Ruzov

Subjects
Medical education, business.industry, Thursday, Medicine, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging, General Medicine, Session (computer science), Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, business
Published
2013

74. Incremental prognostic value of multichamber deformation imaging and renal function status to predict adverse outcome in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction

Author

Saha, Samir K., primary, Luo, Xia-Xia, additional, Gopal, Aasha S., additional, Govind, Satish C., additional, Fang, Fang, additional, Liu, Ming, additional, Zhang, Qing, additional, Ma, Chunyan, additional, Dong, Ming, additional, Kiotsekoglou, Anatoli, additional, and Yu, Cheuk-Man, additional

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2018
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75. The role of advanced echocardiography and cardiovascular magnetic resonance in the assessment of myocardial function in Marfan syndrome-An update

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Kiotsekoglou, Anatoli, Moggridge, James C., Child, Anne H., Rask, Peter, Kiotsekoglou, Anatoli, Moggridge, James C., Child, Anne H., and Rask, Peter

Abstract

Cardiovascular assessment of patients with Marfan syndrome has normally focused on the aortic root and vascular manifestations of the disease due to the high risk of aortic dissection. Although primary myocardial impairment has long been suspected in these patients, the evidence has been controversial. Advanced echocardiography and cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging have proven to be effective, accurate, and more sensitive in the detection of subtle cardiac dysfunction. The application of these techniques to Marfan syndrome over the last 10 years has made significant progress in demonstrating the presence of primary myocardial impairment in these patients, but further work is still required to obtain confirmatory molecular, pathophysiological, and prognostic clinical data. Phenotypic expression of the disease has prognostic value, also suggesting potential effective medical therapy.

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2017
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76. Poster session: Aortic stenosis

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R. Piccolo, J. Clarke, C. A. Brambila, B. Igual Munoz, K. Hristova, M. S. Carvalho, M. Tesic, O. Azevedo, J. A. Del Prado, A. Mcculloch, O. Kaitozis, B. Popovic, S. Stankovic, H. Chamsi-Pasha, R. Abdelfatah, V. Parisi, K. Pushparajah, E. Zemtsovsky, B. Kilickiran Avci, A. Manouras, K. Takenaka, F. Parthenakis, P. Vardas, A. Goudev, M. Orii, A. Kutarski, R. De Rosa, M. Castillo Orive, A. Sahlen, H. Ahn, S. Nedjati-Gilani, G. J. King, H. Bellsham-Revell, D. Lahidheb, M. Anastasiou-Nana, F. Pereira Machado, S. Yurdakul, N. Olsen, S. Pica, A. Ebihara, T. Nakajima, P. Molina Aguilar, R. Hornsten, M. Elnoamany, M. Cramer, G. Tamborini, G. Pagano, H. Kim, S. Soderberg, A. M. Gonzalez, N. Zlatareva, E. Marangio, F. Yang, G. Cho, I. Paunovic, C. Jons, T. Tanimoto, H. Triantafyllidi, D. Gopalan, O. Ozcan, M. Norman, G. Grazioli, F. Castillo, E. Kort, R. Bruno, J. Kostic, M. Daimon, D. Kang, C. Badiu, C. Magnino, C. Bucca, I. Joao, F. Buendia Sanchez, A. Tomaszewski, M. Alasnig, J. Kisslo, T. Kawata, S. Fernandez Casares, A. Livingston, J. Silva Cardoso, S. Korkmaz, J. Rodriguez Garcia, M. Tomaszewski, Y. Motoyoshi, A. Kaneva, E. Kinova, J. Lekakis, N. Bruun, M. Elneklawy, K. Uno, K. Nour, J. M. Ferrer, T. Wada, T. Katova, E. Ermis, F. Gaita, S. Rafla, F. Macedo, S. Woo, S. Perry, M. Lonnebakken, K. Thapa, M. Banovic, C. Selton-Suty, V. Pereira, A. Lourenco, G. Dreyfus, W. Serra, M. Hedstrom, A. Hagendorff, H. Nishino, T. Filali, M. Muratori, F. De Stefano, J. Marin, B. Jedaida, I. Rangel, J. Haertel, S. Tzortzis, A. Kalogerakis, G. Galasso, P. Hoffman, L. Chen, Y. Juilliere, V. Kostova, J. Navarro Manchon, C. J. Lopez-Guarch, J L Moya Mur, J. D. J. Baguda, C. Moretti, C. Manisty, N. Hajlaoui, H. Mahfoudhi, E. Martins, F. Bourlon, Y. Choi, C. Papadopoulos, A. Santos, I. V. Vassiliadis, A. Pereira, D. Domingo Valero, P. Iacotucci, C. Fernandez-Golfin, P. Li, I. Xanthopoulou, G. Pontone, R. Tan, D. D. Valero, D. Cramariuc, D. Lovric, F. Maffessanti, V. Pehar Pejcinovic, Y. Xu, M. Gurzun, L. Mitrofanova, P. Sousa, M. Miglioranza, A. Goncalves, I. Nedeljkovic, S. Stanic, C Di Mario, Y. Shiono, Y. Bian, E. Tossavainen, N. Risum, L. Sargento, K. Hirata, K. Said, H. Park, A. M. Argudo, T. Kubo, S. Barker, A. Chetta, R. Palma Reis, E. Malev, C. Yao, I. Papadakis, R. Medeiros, J. Tong, M. Previtali, T. Yamaguchi, S.-H. Shin, M. Sitges, C. Calinescu, J. Rueda Soriano, K. Steine, R. Ichikawa, K. Farouk, S. Pedri, J. Ripsweden, S. Carillo, G. Gelbrich, P. Rees, F. Costantino, S. Hutchings, A. Bel Minguez, A. Gaspar, M. Petrovic, M. Li Kam Wa, E. Mavronasiou, R. Winter, I. Quelhas, J. Johnson, A. Gopal, H. Jurin, R. Rordorf, M. Al-Mallah, A. Kydd, M. Ezat, A. M. Duncan, A. Kyriacou, Y. Kim, D. Mihalcea, J. Lessa, L. Mont, T. Fritz Hansen, J. Separovic Hanzevacki, D. Mesa, R. Mincu, G. Pavlidis, A.D.J. Ten Harkel, L. Gabrielli, F. Civaia, B. Vujisic-Tesic, M. Lourenco, C. Cefalu, C. Alexandrescu, L. Stefani, D. Gerede, M. Bartesaghi, C. Calin, F. Alamanni, A. Giesecke, P. Fazendas, C. Sousa, C. Ginghina, J. Magne, S. Lemoine, M. Gonzalez, C. Gohlke-Baerwolf, K. H. Hirata, S. Fawzi, H. Kisacik, B. Popescu, L. Visconti, W. Brzozowski, M. Driessen, V. Schiano Lomoriello, S. Yamada, I. Machado, F. Silveira, A. Nordin, E. Velazquez, J. Simpson, D. Vasilev, R. Rimbas, R. Murphy, C. Szymanski, T. Imanishi, M. Martirosyan, E. Najjar, J. Chambers, I. Jovanovic, A. Nagorni, E. Gunyeli, M. Omelchenko, P. De Araujo Goncalves, E. Avenatti, R. Marinov, A. Rieck, C. Tribouilloy, I. Sitges, P. Navas Tejedor, N. Lousada, W. Fehri, B. Pezo Nikolic, T. Leiner, C. Lazaro Rivera, H. Pereira, M. Loeffler, R. Hural, D. Caldeira, D. Francis, M. Di Natale, P. Salgado Filho, F. Gao, C. Alm, G. Tarsia, A. Aleixo, D. Vinereanu, C. Cotrim, M. Lotfi, B. Mc Loughlin, H. Morita, S. K. Saha, A. Djordjevic-Dikic, D. Voilliot, R. Camporotondo, J. Shin, P. Pavlov, M. A. Cattabiani, G. Sekita, A. Djordjevic Dikic, K. Ishibashi, C. Pare, J. Kwan, S. Miyazaki, V. Di Tante, E. Svenungsson, V. Giga, Y. Ino, M. Rover, J. Niewiadomska, M. Florescu, I. Skjoerten, C. Wilson, P. Davlouros, M. Hazekamp, N. Moat, A. Correia, C. Tekedis, I. Ikonomidis, B. Dilekci, L. Magda, T. Le, D. Sohn, S. Hamdy, M. Cinteza, R. Enache, A. Milan, R. Dahmani, A. Lopez Granados, J. Zamorano Gomez, E. Zorio Grima, S. Ghulam Ali, B. Demirkan, A. Shehata, M. Vono, M. Chiarlo, Miguel Mota Carmo, D. Trifunovic, B. Bijnens, Y. Yatomi, J J Jimenez Nacher, B. Rogge, R. Nagai, D. Dutka, X. Shen, I. Mordi, M. Henein, F. Celeste, G. Nadais, H. El Atroush, T. Yamano, D. Andreini, B. Beleslin, H. Suzuki, L. Yan, S. Ghio, C. C. De Sousa, S. Stoebe, S. Petrovic-Nagorni, D. Leosco, T. Komori, S. El-Tobgi, S. Mihaila, A. Madureira, T. Leiria, G. Kim, H. Haouala, B. Stuart, G. Touati, K. Oleszczak, M. Ostojic, J. Song, D. Presutti, A. Fournier, H. Daida, M. Perez Guillen, I. Kuipers, H. Hwang, B. Belesiln, K. Park, Y. Guray, D. Pfeiffer, C. Reverberi, A. Lech, A. Valentini, A. Cogo, F. Piscione, S. Negrea, S. Mezghani, V. Pilosoff, P. Sogaard, N. Blom, N. Tzemos, A. Mantovani, K. Okada, A. Turco, M. Peltier, B. Lopez Melgar, U. Guray, Q. Chen, S. Chamuleau, T. Stanton, F. Baeza, S. M. Rafla, J. Roquette, I. Almuntaser, E. Picano, D. Rusinaru, R. Kalil, R. Martin Asenjo, A. Kiotsekoglou, A. Chilingaryan, B. Candemir, P. Sonecki, A. Moulias, M. Rosca, H. Marques, A. Patrianakos, S. Sahin, J. Estornell Erill, O. Enescu, J. Spratt, P. Barbier, M. Maciel, I. Ivanac Vranesic, P. Lindqvist, T. Snow, J. Silva-Cardoso, N. Koutsogiannis, D. Ardissino, L. Zhong, K. Adamyan, L. Mccormick, A. Calin, P. Innelli, S. Yokoyama, C. Erol, P. Pabari, A. Tarr, M. Galderisi, S. Govind, B. Suran, I. Simova, E. Guyeli, T. Pinho, L. Bjornadal, B. Diaz Anton, J. Hilde, R. Sicari, C. Beladan, M. Ege, A. Zacharaki, L. Ghiadoni, A. A. La Huerta, S. Zdravkovic-Ciric, O. Huttin, K. Jensen-Urstad, F. Veglio, M. Elsedi, M. Nakabachi, P. Zinzius, D. Kim, H. Dores, A. Kakkavas, H. Badran, V. Sanchez Sanchez, E. Duo, J. Carrasco, A. Almeida, M. Virdee, M. Llemit, A. Anwar, L. Pratali, J. Monmeneu Menadas, S. Nevin, L. Fusini, F. Lombera Romero, E. Despotopoulos, E. Nyktari, G. Galanti, K. Kim, A. Van Der Hulst, H. Khachab, M. Dikic, I. Cruz, M. Melsom, J. Brugada, V. Mitic, M. Landolina, S. Turhan, V. Hansteen, D Rodriguez Munoz, J. S. De Lezo, N. Gori, Z. Baricevic, S.-P. Lee, M. Arnau Vives, S. Lee, P. Gripari, S. Humerfelt, F. Huang, T. Mikami, G. Soltan, T. Akasaka, S. Kaga, G. Penney, L. Toncelli, K. Boman, B. Basnyat, E. Kowalik, A. Bartolini, S. Georgiev, K. Shahgaldi, M. Pepi, M. Ruiz Ortiz, R. Sant'anna, H. Tsutsui, P. A. Fernandez, G. Tempesti, S. Aytekin, H. Iwano, Y. Nosir, C. Raineri, J. Rasmunsson, S. Lasarov, P. Lopez Lereu, V. Persic, F. Khan, J. Hisdal, M. Gommidh, A. Alhagoly, E. Gerdts, M. Milicia, G. Rengo, K. Kimura, F. Hakansson, M. Morenate, P. Mitev, M. Yacoub, M. Satendra, B. Kusmierczyk-Droszcz, E. Romo, R. Jankovic-Tomasevic, A. Roest, J. Stepanovic, J. Schwartz, Z. Ashour, L. Klitsie, J. Giner Blasco, M. Delgado, P. Omede, S. Mayordomo Gomez, I. Paraskevaidis, J. L. Zamorano, N. Goodfield, E. Dores, S. Davies, N. Patrascu, D. Alexopoulos, L. Donate Bertolin, D. Stanojevic, E. Psathakis, M. Dobric, P. Trivilou, H. Sasmaz, A. Marinkovic, O. Mirea, G. Sieswerda, M. Maruyama, A. M. Maceira Gonzalez, T. I. Imanishi, A. Santoro, G. Festa, R. Coma Samartin, and V. Atanaskovic

Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty, Stenosis, business.industry, Internal medicine, Cardiology, medicine, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging, General Medicine, Session (computer science), Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, business, medicine.disease
Published
2012

78. Yunanistan'ın Evros Bölgesi Dolmen, Çistler ve Kaya Mezarları

Author

Kiotsekoglou, Stavros, Beksaç, Engin, and Görsel Kültür Anabilim Dalı

Subjects
Arkeoloji, Archeology, Greece, Cysts, Thrace region, Dolmens, Rock tombs, Western Thrace
Abstract

Tarih boyunca her çağda ve her kültürde hayatını kaybedinlerin ardından anma törenleri düzenlenir, hediyeler ve kurbanlar sunulurdu. Bu törenler, çok sevdiğimiz atalarımızı anma ve ölümle olan ilişkimizin temel özelliğidir. Bu törenler; ilişki kültürümüzü, ideolojimizi ve yaşam tarzımızı büyük bir ölçüde etkiler. Ölüm her yerde var olmanın yanı sıra yaşam ve ölümsüzlük teorilerininde başlangıç noktasıdır. Yer yüzündeki insanların kültürleri, efsanelerden etkilenen psikolojilerinin ürünüdür, hiç şüphesiz ki Trakya'lılarda da bu böyledir. Dağ, taş ve tümülüsler Büyük Ana Tanrıça'nın fiziksel formu niteliğindedir ve ölen kişinin doğduğu yer olan toprağa (Ana Tanrıçanın doğum organı-rahmine) geri dönme isteğidir.Eshilos Yeryüzün΄den övgü ile şöyle bahseder «Bütün varlıkları doğurur, besler ve tekrar bereketli kucağına alır». Ege'de ve Trakya'da tanrı; antropomorfik (insan formu) özellikleriyle tasvir edilir, (kayaya oyulmuş iki niş ile), annenin yaratıcı dünyasının doğum döngüsünü, geliştiriciliğini, ölümü ve ölümden sonra tekrar doğumu vurgular, yeryüzünün sıcak rahminden soğuk mezara geçişini onaylar, kişinin atalarıyla toplanma zamanının yaklaştığına işaret eder.Dolmenler, kaya mezarları, mezar tümülüsleri, ve sur duvarlarının yakınlarındaki kaya yığınları, Ege'nin ve Trakya bölgesinin «Megalitik bahçeleridir.», yemyeşil çam ağaçları ve meşe ağaçlarının gölgesinde yalnız ve ihtişamlı bir şekildedirler. In all times and in all cultures the culture of memory for those who died, with offers and sacrifices after death, are the main characteristics of the relationship that each of us has with death and the lovable ancestor, a relationship that affects our culture, our ideology, even our lifestyle. Death is omnipresent and is the starting point of all theories of life and immortality, a psychological product of mythopoetic conscience of every human culture and no doubt of the Thracian.The mountain, the rock and the tomb are forms of Big - Mother Goddess bay (-vaginal) whose doctrinal son would be buried. Aeschylus praises her because it is the Earth that generates all beings, nourishes and returns again in the fertile lap». In the Aegean Thrace deity is depicted with anthropomorphic features (with two niches carved into the rock), emphasizing the creative world of the mother in the cycle of birth, growth, death and rebirth, ratifying the transition from the warm womb to the cold tomb of earth, an impending sign of meeting with the ancestors.The dolmens, the rock cut tombs and burial mounds with accumulated stones near the fortification walls, is «the megalithic garden» of the Aegean Thrace, a solitary splendor over the green pines and shade of oak. 100

Published
2016

79. Prognostic value of left atrial expansion index and exercise-induced change in atrial natriuretic peptide as long-term predictors of atrial fibrillation recurrence

Author

Anatoli Kiotsekoglou, Malini Govindan, Samir K. Saha, A. John Camm, and Gabor Borgulya

Subjects
Male, medicine.medical_specialty, medicine.medical_treatment, Electric Countershock, Cardioversion, Disease-Free Survival, Electrocardiography, Atrial natriuretic peptide, Predictive Value of Tests, Recurrence, Physiology (medical), Internal medicine, Atrial Fibrillation, Natriuretic Peptide, Brain, medicine, Humans, Heart Atria, Prospective Studies, Stage (cooking), Prospective cohort study, Exercise, Aged, medicine.diagnostic_test, business.industry, Atrial fibrillation, Organ Size, Middle Aged, Prognosis, medicine.disease, Brain natriuretic peptide, Treatment Outcome, Predictive value of tests, Cardiology, Female, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, business, Atrial Natriuretic Factor
Abstract

AIMS: We propose to assess the value of exercise-induced change in N-terminal-pro atrial natriuretic peptide (NT-proANP) and left atrial expansion index (LAEI) in predicting AFR after cardioversion and their effect on AF-free survival. METHODS AND RESULTS: Fifty-five patients with persistent AF of

Published
2012

80. Value of Two-Dimensional Speckle Tracking and Real Time Three-Dimensional Echocardiography for the Identification of Subclinical Left Ventricular Dysfunction in Patients Referred for Routine Echocardiography

Author

Samir K. Saha, Kenneth Nichols, James C. Moggridge, Rena S Toole, Satish C. Govind, Aasha S. Gopal, and Anatoli Kiotsekoglou

Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty, Ejection fraction, Abnormal echocardiogram, business.industry, Diastole, Speckle tracking echocardiography, medicine.anatomical_structure, Ventricle, Internal medicine, medicine, Cardiology, Cutoff, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging, Systole, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, business, Subclinical infection
Abstract

Background: While speckle tracking echocardiography (2DSTE) can be used to study longitudinal, circumferential, and radial function, real time 3D echocardiography (3DE) generates dynamic time–volume curves, offering a wide array of new parameters for characterizing mechanical and volumetric properties of the left ventricle (LV). Our aim was to investigate the merit of these new techniques to separate normal from abnormal echocardiograms as well as to identify subclinical disease in reportedly normal subjects. Methods: Eighty-one patients (mean age 61 ± 16 years) underwent standard 2D echocardiography (2DE) enhanced by 2DSTE and 3DE. The data included LV volumes and ejection fraction (EF), velocities, strain/strain rate, and peak ejection/filling rates. The patients were divided into Group 1: normal (n = 42) and Group 2: abnormal (n = 39) on the basis of an expert interpretation of the resting 2DE. Results: Global longitudinal strain (%) was 17 ± 4 in Group1 and 14 ± 4 in Group2 (P < 0.002). Strain rates (SR, 1/sec) at peak systole (1.1 ± 0.2 vs 0.9 ± 0.3, P < 0.001) and early diastole (1.3 ± 0.3 vs 0.9 ± 0.3, P < 0.001) were also higher in Group1. Three-dimensional peak ejection and filling rates (EDV/sec) were significantly higher in Group1 (−2.5 ± 0.4 vs −2.1 ± 0.7, and 1.8 ± 0.2 vs 1.5 ± 0.5, P < 0.002, P < 0.001, respectively). The best discriminatory power for predicting a normal 2DE was systolic SR with a sensitivity of 82% and a specificity of 54% using a cutoff value of 1.09. Interestingly, 19/41 (46%) of Group1 patients had systolic SR < 1.09, suggesting subclinical disease. Conclusions: 2DSTE and 3DE can discriminate between normal and abnormal echocardiograms and have the potential to detect subclinical LV dysfunction. (Echocardiography 2012;29:588-597)

Published
2012

81. Poster Session 4: Friday 9 December 2011, 14:00-18:00 * Location: Poster Area

Author

M. Wang, G. Yan, W. Yue, C. Siu, H. Tse, A. Perperidis, D. Cusack, A. White, T. Macgillivray, W. Mcdicken, T. Anderson, V. Ryabov, V. Shurupov, T. Suslova, V. Markov, N. Elmstedt, K. Ferm Widlund, B. Lind, L.-A. Brodin, M. Westgren, F. Mantovani, A. Barbieri, F. Bursi, C. Valenti, M. Quaglia, M. Modena, D. Peluso, D. Muraru, L. Dal Bianco, M. Beraldo, E. Solda', M. Tuveri, U. Cucchini, A. Al Mamary, L. Badano, S. Iliceto, A. Goncalves, C. Almeria, P. Marcos-Alberca, G. Feltes, R. Hernandez-Antolin, H. Rodriguez, L. Maroto, J. Silva Cardoso, C. Macaya, J. Zamorano, S. Squarciotta, F. Innocenti, A. Guzzo, S. Bianchi, D. Lazzeretti, E. De Villa, S. Vicidomini, B. Del Taglia, C. Donnini, R. Pini, C. Mennie, A. M. Salmasi, V. Kutyifa, V. Nagy, E. Edes, A. Apor, B. Merkely, S. Nyrnes, L. Lovstakken, H. Torp, B. Haugen, K. Said, A. Shehata, Z. Ashour, S. El-Tobgy, M. Cameli, E. Bigio, M. Lisi, F. Righini, F. Franchi, S. Scolletta, S. Mondillo, E. Gayat, L. Weinert, C. Yodwut, V. Mor-Avi, R. Lang, N. Hrynchyshyn, N. Kachenoura, B. Diebold, R. Khedim, M. Senesi, A. Redheuil, E. Mousseaux, L. Perdrix, S. Yurdakul, V. Erdemir, Y. Tayyareci, K. Memic, O. Yildirimturk, V. Aytekin, M. Gurel, S. Aytekin, L. Gargani, C. Fernandez Cimadevilla, S. La Falce, P. Landi, E. Picano, R. Sicari, M. K. Smedsrud, J. Gravning, C. Eek, L. Morkrid, H. Skulstad, L. Aaberge, B. Bendz, J. Kjekshus, T. Edvardsen, G. Bajraktari, V. Hyseni, B. Morina, A. Batalli, R. Tafarshiku, R. Olloni, M. Henein, O. Mjolstad, S. Snare, L. Folkvord, F. Helland, O. Haraldseth, A. Grimsmo, M. Berry, O. Zaghden, J. Nahum, L. Macron, O. Lairez, T. Damy, A. Bensaid, J. Dubois Rande, P. Gueret, P. Lim, N. Nciri, Z. Issaoui, C. Tlili, I. Wanes, H. Foudhil, F. Dachraoui, J. Grapsa, D. Dawson, P. Nihoyannopoulos, L. Gianturco, M. Turiel, F. Atzeni, P. Sarzi-Puttini, D. Stella, L. Donato, L. Tomasoni, P. Jung, M. Mueller, T. Huber, G. Sevilmis, F. Kroetz, H. Sohn, V. Panoulas, A. Bratsas, R. Raso, G. Tartarisco, G. Pioggia, P. Gargiulo, M. Petretta, A. Cuocolo, M. Prastaro, C. D'amore, E. Vassallo, G. Savarese, C. Marciano, S. Paolillo, P. Perrone Filardi, C. Aggeli, I. Felekos, G. Roussakis, E. Poulidakis, P. Pietri, K. Toutouzas, C. Stefanadis, A. Kaladaridis, I. Skaltsiotis, G. Kottis, D. Bramos, D. Takos, I. Matthaios, I. Agrios, E. Papadopoulou, S. Moulopoulos, S. Toumanidis, P. Carrilho-Ferreira, N. Cortez-Dias, C. Jorge, D. Silva, J. Silva Marques, R. Placido, L. Santos, S. Ribeiro, M. Fiuza, F. Pinto, V. Stoickov, S. Ilic, M. Deljanin Ilic, W. Kim, J. Woo, J. Bae, K. Kim, M. Descalzo, J. Rodriguez, S. Moral, I. Otaegui, P. Mahia, L. Garcia Del Blanco, T. Gonzalez Alujas, J. Figueras, A. Evangelista, D. Garcia-Dorado, M. Takeuchi, K. Kaku, K. Otani, M. Iwataki, H. Kuwaki, N. Haruki, H. Yoshitani, Y. Otsuji, M. Kukucka, M. Pasic, A. Unbehaun, S. Dreysse, A. Mladenow, H. Kuppe, R. Hetzer, N. Rajamannan, A. Tanrikulu, L. Kristiansson, S. Gustafsson, K. Lindmark, M. Y. Henein, C. Evdoridis, P. Stougiannos, M. Thomopoulos, M. Fosteris, P. Spanos, G. Sionis, D. Giatsios, A. Paschalis, C. Sakellaris, A. Trikas, Z. Y. Yong, K. Boerlage-Van Dijk, K. Koch, M. Vis, B. Bouma, J. Piek, J. Baan, L. Abid, Z. Frikha, K. Makni, N. Maazoun, D. Abid, M. Hentati, S. Kammoun, P. Barbier, A. Staron, C. Cefalu', G. Berna, P. Gripari, D. Andreini, G. Pontone, M. Pepi, L. Ring, B. Rana, S. Ho, F. Wells, A. Dogan, O. Karaca, G. Guler, E. Guler, H. Gunes, E. Alizade, H. Agus, G. Gol, O. Esen, A. Esen, M. Turkmen, E. Agricola, G. Ingallina, M. Ancona, S. Maggio, M. Slavich, V. Tufaro, M. Oppizzi, A. Margonato, C. Orsborne, B. Irwin, K. Pearce, S. Ray, C. Garcia Alonso, N. Vallejo, C. Labata, J. Lopez Ayerbe, A. Teis, E. Ferrer, R. Nunez Aragon, F. Gual, M. Pedro Botet, A. Bayes Genis, C. M. Santos, M. Carvalho, M. Andrade, H. Dores, S. Madeira, G. Cardoso, A. Ventosa, C. Aguiar, R. Ribeiras, M. Mendes, M. Petrovic, G. Milasinovic, B. Vujisic-Tesic, I. Nedeljkovic, D. Zamaklar-Trifunovic, I. Petrovic, G. Draganic, M. Banovic, M. Boricic, H. Villarraga, C. Molini-Griggs Bs, P. Silen-Rivera Bs, B. Payne Mph Ms, Y. Koshino Md Phd, J. Hsiao Md, V. Monivas Palomero, S. Mingo Santos, C. Mitroi, I. Garcia Lunar, P. Garcia Pavia, V. Castro Urda, J. Toquero, J. Gonzalez Mirelis, M. Cavero Gibanel, I. Fernandez Lozano, Z. Oko-Sarnowska, H. Wachowiak-Baszynska, A. Katarzynska-Szymanska, O. Trojnarska, S. Grajek, D. Bellavia, P. Pellikka, A. Dispenzieri, J. K. Oh, V. Polizzi, F. Pitrolo, F. Musumeci, F. Miller, R. Ancona, S. Comenale Pinto, P. Caso, S. Severino, C. Cavallaro, F. Vecchione, A. D'onofrio, R. Calabro', A. M. Maceira Gonzalez, C. Ripoll, J. Cosin-Sales, B. Igual, J. Salazar, V. Belloch, J. Cosin-Aguilar, B. Pinamonti, A. Iorio, M. Bobbo, M. Merlo, G. Barbati, L. Massa, G. Faganello, A. Di Lenarda, G. F. Sinagra, T. Ishizu, Y. Seo, M. Enomoto, Y. Kameda, N. Ishibashi, M. Inoue, K. Aonuma, A. Saleh, A. Matsumori, H. Negm, H. Fouad, A. Onsy, E. Hamodraka, I. Paraskevaidis, M. Kallistratos, V. Lezos, T. Zamfir, C. Manetos, D. Mavropoulos, L. Poulimenos, D. Kremastinos, A. Manolis, R. Citro, F. Rigo, Q. Ciampi, M. Patella, G. Provenza, C. Zito, E. Tagliamonte, F. Rotondi, F. Silvestri, E. Bossone, P. Beltran Correas, C. Gutierrez Landaluce, M. Gomez Bueno, J. Segovia Cubero, C. Beladan, F. Matei, B. Popescu, A. Calin, M. Rosca, A. Boanta, R. Enache, O. Savu, C. Usurelu, C. Ginghina, A. O. Ciobanu, R. Dulgheru, S. Magda, R. Dragoi, M. Florescu, D. Vinereanu, S. Robalo Martins, C. Calisto, S. Goncalves, I. Barrigoto, J. Carvalho De Sousa, A. Almeida, A. Nunes Diogo, L. Sargento, M. Satendra, C. Sousa, N. Lousada, R. Palma Reis, V. Schiano Lomoriello, R. Esposito, A. Santoro, R. Raia, P. Schiattarella, E. Dores, M. Galderisi, N. Mansencal, V. Caille, A. Dupland, S. Perrot, K. Bouferrache, A. Vieillard-Baron, R. Jouffroy, P. Moceri, E. Liodakis, M. Gatzoulis, W. Li, K. Dimopoulos, M. Sadron, P. E. Seguela, B. Arnaudis, Y. Dulac, T. Cognet, P. Acar, Y. Shiina, H. Uemura, K. Kupczynska, J. Kasprzak, B. Michalski, P. Lipiec, V. Carvalho, A. M. G. Almeida, C. David, J. Marques, P. Ferreira, M. Amaro, P. Costa, A. Diogo, V. Tritakis, I. Ikonomidis, J. Lekakis, S. Tzortzis, N. Kadoglou, I. Papadakis, P. Trivilou, C. Koukoulis, M. Anastasiou-Nana, T. Bombardini, S. Gherardi, G. Arpesella, M. Maccherini, W. Serra, G. Magnani, R. Del Bene, E. Pasanisi, U. Startari, L. Panchetti, A. Rossi, M. Piacenti, M. Morales, I. El Hajjaji, R. El Mahmoud, F. Digne, O. Dubourg, G. Agoston, A. Moreo, L. Pratali, A. Moggi Pignone, A. Pavellini, M. Doveri, F. Musca, A. Varga, F. Faita, S. Rimoldi, C. Sartori, Y. Alleman, C. Salinas Salmon, M. Villena, U. Scherrer, R. Baptista, S. Serra, G. Castro, R. Martins, M. Salvador, P. Monteiro, J. Silva, L. Szudi, A. Temesvary, B. Fekete, I. Kassai, L. Szekely, S. S. Abdel Moneim, M. Martinez, S. Mankad, M. Bernier, A. Dhoble, K. Chandrasekaran, J. Oh, S. Mulvagh, G. R. Hong, J. Y. Kim, S. C. Lee, S. H. Choi, I. S. Sohn, H. S. Seo, J. H. Choi, K. I. Cho, S. J. Yoon, S. J. Lim, P. Wejner-Mik, J. Kusmierek, A. Plachcinska, R. Szuminski, S. Stoebe, A. Tarr, T. Trache, A. Hagendorff, C. Jenkins, H. Kuhl, H. Nesser, T. Marwick, A. Franke, J. Niel, L. Sugeng, S. Soderberg, P. Lindqvist, J. Necas, S. Kovalova, S. K. Saha, A. Kiotsekoglou, R. Toole, S. Govind, A. Gopal, M.-S. Amzulescu, A. Florian, J. Bogaert, S. Janssens, J. Voigt, V. Parisi, M. Losi, L. Parrella, C. Contaldi, E. Chiacchio, A. Caputi, A. Scatteia, A. Buonauro, S. Betocchi, R. Rimbas, S. Mihaila, M. Caputo, R. Navarri, P. Innelli, R. Urselli, E. Capati, P. Ballo, F. Furiozzi, R. Favilli, R. Lindquist, A. Miller, C. Reece, P. O'leary, F. Cetta, B. W. Eidem, M. Cikes, H. Gasparovic, B. Bijnens, V. Velagic, T. Kopjar, B. Biocina, D. Milicic, A. Ta-Shma, A. Nir, Z. Perles, S. Gavri, J. Golender, A. Rein, G. Pinnacchio, L. Barone, I. Battipaglia, A. Cosenza, L. Marinaccio, I. Coviello, G. Scalone, A. Sestito, G. Lanza, F. Crea, S. Cakal, E. Eroglu, B. Ozkan, S. Kulahcioglu, M. Bulut, A. Koyuncu, G. Acar, G. Alici, C. Dundar, F. Labombarda, E. Zangl, A. Pellissier, D. Bougle, P. Maragnes, P. Milliez, E. Saloux, S. Lagoudakou, E. Gialafos, A. Tsokanis, A. Nagy, T. Kovats, H. Vago, A. Toth, B. Sax, A. Kovacs, M. F. Elnoamany, H. Badran, I. Abdelfattah, T. Khalil, M. Salama, T. Butz, C. Taubenberger, F. Thangarajah, A. Meissner, M. Van Bracht, M. Prull, H. Yeni, G. Plehn, H. Trappe, R. Rydman, D. Bone, M. Alam, K. Caidahl, F. Larsen, Z. Gasior, Z. Tabor, P. Sengupta, D. Liu, M. Niemann, K. Hu, S. Herrmann, S. Stoerk, C. Morbach, S. Knop, W. Voelker, G. Ertl, F. Weidemann, P. Cawley, C. Hamilton-Craig, L. Mitsumori, J. Maki, C. Otto, M. Astrom Aneq, E. Nylander, T. Ebbers, J. Engvall, P. Arvanitis, F. Flachskampf, O. Duvernoy, F. De Torres Alba, S. Valbuena Lopez, G. Guzman Martinez, J. Gomez De Diego, J. Rey Blas, E. Armada Romero, E. Lopez De Sa, M. Moreno Yanguela, J. Lopez Sendon, N. Trikalinos, G. Siasos, A. Aggeli, A. Tomaszewski, A. Kutarski, M. Tomaszewski, O. Vriz, C. Driussi, M. Bettio, D. Pavan, F. Antonini Canterin, A. Doltra Magarolas, J. Fernandez-Armenta, E. Silva, N. Solanes, M. Rigol, A. Barcelo, L. Mont, A. Berruezo, J. Brugada, M. Sitges, F. L. Ciciarello, S. Mandolesi, F. Fedele, L. Agati, A. Marceca, S. Rhee, S. Shin, S. Kim, K. Yun, N. Yoo, N. Kim, S. Oh, J. Jeong, and N. Alabdulkarim

Subjects
education.field_of_study, medicine.medical_specialty, business.industry, Multiple sclerosis, Population, Hemodynamics, General Medicine, Cerebro, medicine.disease, Internal medicine, Cardiology, Medicine, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, education, business
Published
2011

82. Poster Session 2: Thursday 8 December 2011, 14:00-18:00 * Location: Poster Area

Author

X. Luo, F. Fang, J. Sun, J. Xie, A. Lee, Q. Zhang, C. Yu, O. Breithardt, S. Schiessl, M. Schmid, M. Seltmann, L. Klinghammer, C. Zeissler, M. Kuechle, W. Daniel, M. Ege, U. Guray, Y. Guray, B. Demirkan, H. Kisacik, S.-E. Kim, J.-Y. Hong, J.-H. Lee, D.-G. Park, K.-R. Han, D.-J. Oh, O. Tufekcioglu, D. C. Cozma, C. Mornos, A. Ionac, L. Petrescu, C. Tutuianu, S. I. Dragulescu, L. Guimaraes, G. Tavares, A. Rodrigues, C. Nagamatsu, C. Fischer, M. Vieira, W. Oliveira, T. Wilberg, A. Cordovil, S. Morhy, D. Muraru, M. Peluso, L. Dal Bianco, M. Beraldo, E. Solda', M. Tuveri, U. Cucchini, A. Al Mamary, L. Badano, S. Iliceto, A. Pizzuti, B. Mabritto, C. Derosa, A. Tomasello, M. Rovere, I. Parrini, M. Conte, N. Lareva, A. Govorin, R. Cooper, J. Sharif, J. D. Somauroo, J. D. Hung, V. Porcelli, R. Skevington, A. Shahzad, S. Scott, P. Lindqvist, S. Soderberg, M. Gonzalez, E. Tossavainen, M. Henein, N. Nciri, H. Saad, S. Nawas, A. Ali, A. Youssufzay, A. Safi, S. Faruk, S. Yurdakul, V. Erdemir, Y. Tayyareci, O. Yildirimturk, K. Memic, V. Aytekin, M. Gurel, S. Aytekin, M. Przewlocka-Kosmala, M. Cielecka-Prynda, A. Mysiak, W. Kosmala, S. Pescariu, D. Cozma, A. Mornos, S. Dragulescu, N. Maurea, C. G. Tocchetti, C. Coppola, C. Quintavalle, D. Rea, A. Barbieri, G. Piscopo, C. Arra, G. Condorelli, R. Iaffaioli, H. Dalen, A. Thorstensen, H. Moelmen, H. Torp, A. Stoylen, D. Augustine, C. Basagiannis, J. Suttie, P. Cox, R. Aitzaz, A. Lewandowski, M. Lazdam, C. Holloway, H. Becher, P. Leeson, S. Radovanovic, A. Djokovic, B. Todic, M. Zdravkovic, M. Zaja-Simic, S. Banicevic, D. Lisulov-Popovic, M. Krotin, J. Grapsa, D. O'regan, D. Dawson, G. Durighel, L. Howard, J. Gibbs, P. Nihoyannopoulos, C. Tulunay Kaya, M. Kilickap, H. Kurklu, N. Ozbek, C. Koca, V. Kozluca, K. Esenboga, C. Erol, B. Kusmierczyk-Droszcz, E. Kowalik, J. Niewiadomska, P. Hoffman, M. Satendra, L. Sargento, S. Lopes, S. Longo, N. Lousada, R. Palma Reis, P. Chillo, A. Rieck, J. Lwakatare, J. Lutale, E. Gerdts, S. Bonapace, G. Molon, G. Targher, A. Rossi, L. Lanzoni, G. Canali, E. Campopiano, L. Zenari, L. Bertolini, E. Barbieri, K. Hristova, L. Vladiomirova-Kitova, T. Katova, F. Nikolov, P. Nikolov, S. Georgieva, I. Simova, V. Kostova, V. A. Kuznetsov, D. V. Krinochkin, P. A. Chandraratna, Y. A. Pak, E. H. Zakharova, A. V. Plusnin, M. V. Semukhin, E. A. Gorbatenko, E. I. Yaroslavskaya, G. Bedetti, L. Gargani, M. Scalese, C. Pizzi, R. Sicari, E. Picano, M. Reali, E. Canali, S. Cimino, M. Francone, M. Mancone, R. Scardala, F. Boccalini, Y. Hiramoto, A. Frustaci, L. Agati, K. Savino, A. Lilli, E. Bordoni, C. Riccini, G. Ambrosio, D. Silva, N. Cortez-Dias, P. Carrilho-Ferreira, C. Jorge, J. Silva-Marques, A. Magalhaes, L. Santos, S. Ribeiro, F. Pinto, A. Nunes Diogo, E. Kinova, N. Zlatareva, A. Goudev, C. Bonanad, M. Lopez-Lereu, J. Monmeneu, V. Bodi, J. Sanchis, J. Nunez, F. Chaustre, A. Llacer, D. Ermacora, D. Peluso, M. Di Lazzari, P. Meimoun, F. Elmkies, T. Benali, J. Boulanger, H. Zemir, J. Clerc, A. Luycx-Bore, M. S. Velasco Del Castillo, A. Cacicedo Fernandez De Bobadilla, J. Onaindia Gandarias, M. Telleria Arrieta, G. Zugazabeitia Irazabal, O. Quintana Raczka, I. Rodriguez Sanchez, A. Romero Pereiro, E. Laraudogoitia Zaldumbide, I. Lekuona Goya, B. Bonello, E. El Louali, V. Fouilloux, I. Kammache, C. Ovaert, B. Kreitmann, A. Fraisse, R. Migliore, M. Adaniya, M. Barranco, G. Miramont, H. Tamagusuku, A. Alassar, R. Sharma, A. Marciniak, O. Valencia, N. Abdulkareem, M. Jahangiri, N. Jander, R. Kienzle, C. Gohlke-Baerwolf, H. Gohlke, F.-J. Neumann, J. Minners, S. Valbuena, F. De Torres, T. Lopez, J. J. Gomez, G. Guzman, F. Dominguez, E. Refoyo, M. Moreno, J. L. Lopez-Sendon, R. Ancona, S. Comenale Pinto, P. Caso, G. Di Salvo, S. Severino, M. Cavallaro, R. Calabro, R. Enache, R. Piazza, A. Roman-Pognuz, B. Popescu, A. Calin, C. Beladan, F. Purcarea, G. Nicolosi, C. Ginghina, O. Savu, M. Rosca, R. Jurcut, M. Serban, L. Dorobantu, E. Donal, S. Mascle, C. Thebault, D. Veillard, H. Hamonic, A. Leguerrier, H. Corbineau, B. A. Popa, M. Diena, A. Bogdan, D. Benea, G. Lanzillo, V. Casati, E. Novelli, A. Popa, G. Cerin, F. Gual Capllonch, A. Teis, J. Lopez Ayerbe, E. Ferrer, N. Vallejo, E. Gomez Denia, A. Bayes Genis, S. Spethmann, S. Schattke, G. Baldenhofer, V. Stangl, M. Laule, G. Baumann, K. Stangl, F. Knebel, C. Labata, C. Garcia Alonso, F. Gual, R. Nunez Aragon, C. Sousa, A. I. Vasile, M. Dorobantu, C. Iorgulescu, S. Bogdan, D. Constantinescu, C. Caldararu, O. Tautu, R. Vatasescu, H. Badran, M. F. Elnoamany, M. Ayad, A. Elshereef, A. Farhan, Y. Nassar, M. Yacoub, J. Costabel, G. Avegliano, P. Elissamburu, J. Thierer, F. Castro, M. Huguet, A. Frangi, R. Ronderos, C. Prinz, F. Van Buuren, L. Faber, T. Bitter, N. Bogunovic, W. Burchert, D. Horstkotte, J. D. Kasprzak, A. Smialowski, T. Rudzinski, P. Lipiec, M. Krzeminska-Pakula, K. Wierzbowska-Drabik, E. Trzos, M. Kurpesa, H. Motoki, M. Hana, T. Marwick, K. Allan, M. Vazquez-Alvarez, C. Medrano Lopez, S. Granja Da Silva, C. Marcos, A. Rodriguez-Ogando, M. Alvarez, M. Camino, M. Centeno, E. Maroto, G. Feltes Guzman, V. Serra Tomas, O. Acevedo, A. Calli, M. Barba, G. Pintos, V. Valverde, J. Zamorano Gomez, M. Marchel, J. Kochanowski, R. Piatkowski, A. Madej, K. Filipiak, I. Hausmanowa-Petrusewicz, G. Opolski, E. Malev, E. Zemtsovsky, S. Reeva, E. Timofeev, A. Pshepiy, S. Mihaila, R. Rimbas, R. Mincu, R. Dulgheru, R. Mihaila, C. Badiu, M. Cinteza, D. Vinereanu, E. Lira, D. Lebihan, C. Monaco, M. Ruiz Ortiz, D. Mesa, M. Delgado, E. Romo, M. Pena, M. Puentes, M. Santisteban, A. Lopez Granados, J. Arizon Del Prado, J. Suarez De Lezo, W.-C. Tsai, J.-Y. Shih, T.-S. Huang, Y.-W. Liu, Y.-Y. Huang, L.-M. Tsai, E. Cho, K. Choi, B. Kwon, D. Kim, S. Jang, C. Park, H. Jung, H. Jeon, H. Youn, J. Kim, A. E. Rieck, D. Cramariuc, M. Lonnebakken, B. Lund, P. Moceri, D. Doyen, P. Cerboni, E. Ferrari, W. Li, S. Goncalves, G. Vinhais De Sousa, A. G. Almeida, C. Hernandez Garcia, A. De La Rosa Hernandez, E. Arroyo Ucar, P. Jorge Perez, A. Barragan Acea, J. Lacalzada Almeida, J. Jimenez Rivera, A. Duque Garcia, I. Laynez Cerdena, O. Arhipov, A. N. Sumin, L. Campens, M. Renard, B. Trachet, P. Segers, A. De Paepe, J. De Backer, J. A. Purvis, D. Sharma, S. M. Hughes, D. Marek, D. Vindis, E. Kocianova, M. Taborsky, H. Yoon, K. Kim, Y. Ahn, M. Chung, J. Cho, J. Kang, W. Rha, O. Ozcan, D. Sezgin Ozcan, B. Candemir, M. Aras, I. Dincer, R. Atak, L. Gianturco, M. Turiel, F. Atzeni, L. Tomasoni, E. Bruschi, O. Epis, P. Sarzi-Puttini, C. Aggeli, E. Poulidakis, I. Felekos, S. Sideris, P. Dilaveris, K. Gatzoulis, C. Stefanadis, N. Roszczyk, M. Sobczak, J. Peruga, R. Krecki, J. Kasprzak, K. Ishii, T. Suyama, K. Kataoka, A. Furukawa, T. Nagai, M. Maenaka, Y. Seino, F. Musca, B. De Chiara, A. Moreo, S. Cataldo, M. Parolini, O. Parodi, T. Bombardini, F. Faita, S.-J. Park, J.-H. Kil, S.-J. Kim, S.-Y. Jang, S.-A. Chang, J.-O. Choi, S.-C. Lee, S. Park, P. Park, J. Oh, M. Cikes, V. Velagic, B. Biocina, H. Gasparovic, Z. Djuric, B. Bijnens, D. Milicic, A. Huqi, B. Klas, A. He, I. Paterson, M. Irween, J. Ezekovitz, J. Choy, Y. Chen, L. Cheng, R. Yao, H. Yao, H. Chen, C. Pan, X. Shu, B. Sobkowicz, M. Kaminska, W. Musial, R. Buechel, G. Sommer, G. Leibundgut, A. Rohner, J. Bremerich, B. Kaufmann, A. Kessel-Schaefer, M. Handke, A. Kiotsekoglou, S. Saha, R. Toole, S. Sharma, A. Gopal, S. Adhya, W. Tsang, C. Kenny, S. Kapetanakis, R. Lang, M. Monaghan, B. Smith, T. Coulter, A. Rendon, W.-S. Cheung, W. Gorissen, J. A. Ejlersen, O. May, F. J. Van Slochteren, T. Van Der Spoel, H. Hanssen, P. Doevendans, S. Chamuleau, C. De Korte, A. Tarr, S. Stoebe, T. Trache, J.-G. Kluge, A. Varga, A. Hagendorff, A. Nagy, A. Kovacs, A. Apor, B. Sax, D. Becker, B. Merkely, R. Lindquist, A. Miller, C. Reece, B. W. Eidem, W.-G. Choi, S. Kim, S. Oh, Y. Kim, R. Iacobelli, M. Chinali, M. D' Asaro, A. Toscano, A. Del Pasqua, C. Esposito, G. Seghetti, F. Parisi, G. Pongiglione, G. Rinelli, O. Omaygenc, R. Bakal, C. Dogan, K. Teber, S. Akpinar, G. Sahin, N. Ozdemir, A. Penhall, M. Joseph, F. Chong, C. De Pasquale, J. Selvanayagam, D. Leong, E. G. Nyktari, A. P. Patrianakos, C. Goudis, G. Solidakis, F. Parthenakis, P. Vardas, E. Nestaas, D. Fugelseth, A. Vitarelli, L. Capotosto, M. Bernardi, Y. Conde, F. Caranci, G. Placanica, O. Dettori, M. Vitarelli, S. De Chiara, V. De Cicco, M. Ferro', R. Calabro', S. Apostolakis, G. Chalikias, D. Tziakas, D. Stakos, A. Thomaidi, S. Konstantinides, G. Iorio, R. Rucos, G. Continanza, M. D Ascanio, L. Alessandroni, M. Saponara, M. Berry, J. Nahum, O. Zaghden, J. Monin, J. Couetil, O. Lairez, L. Macron, J. Dubois Rande, P. Gueret, P. Lim, M. Cameli, E. Giacomin, M. Lisi, S. Benincasa, F. Righini, D. Menci, M. Focardi, S. Mondillo, E. Philip, G. Gorincour, H. Bellsham-Revell, A. J. Bell, O. I. Miller, P. Beerbaum, R. Razavi, G. Greil, J. M. Simpson, S. Ann, T. Kim, J. Lee, J. Chin, P. Cabeza Lainez, V. Escolar Camas, L. Gheorghe, P. Fernandez Garcia, R. Vazquez Garcia, V. Caiulo, S. Caiulo, A. Fisicaro, F. Moramarco, G. Latini, A. Seale, J. Carvalho, H. Gardiner, M. Roughton, J. Simpson, A. Tometzki, O. Uzun, S. Webber, P. Daubeney, A. Dawood, G. Dwivedi, G. Mahadevan, D. Jiminez, R. Steeds, M. Frenneaux, C. H. Attenhofer Jost, B. Knechtle, A. Bernheim, M. Pfyffer, A. Linka, A. Faeh-Gunz, B. Seifert, G. De Pasquale, M. Zuber, A. Tomaszewski, A. Kutarski, and M. Tomaszewski

Subjects
Computer science, Plane (geometry), business.industry, Echo (computing), Left atrium, General Medicine, Biplane, medicine.anatomical_structure, Software, Left atrial, medicine, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, business, Nuclear medicine
Published
2011

83. Poster Session 3: Friday 9 December 2011, 08:30-12:30 * Location: Poster Area

Author

C. Kenny, S. Adhya, R. Dworakowski, B. Brickham, P. Maccarthy, M. Monaghan, A. Guzzo, F. Innocenti, S. Vicidomini, D. Lazzeretti, S. Squarciotta, E. De Villa, C. Donnini, F. Bulletti, E. Guerrini, R. Pini, K. Bendjelid, J. Viale, S. Duperret, V. Piriou, D. Jacques, K. Shahgaldi, C. Silva, F. Pedro, L. Deister, L.-A. Brodin, A. Sahlen, A. Manouras, R. Winter, N. Berjeb, C. Cimadevilla, J. Dreyfus, C. Cueff, M. Malanca, A. Chiampan, A. Vahanian, D. Messika-Zeitoun, D. Muraru, D. Peluso, L. Dal Bianco, M. Beraldo, E. Solda', M. Tuveri, U. Cucchini, A. Al Mamary, L. Badano, S. Iliceto, I. Almuntaser, G. King, S. Norris, C. Daly, E. Ellis, R. Murphy, T. Erdei, M. Denes, A. Kardos, C. Foldesi, A. Temesvari, M. Lengyel, A. Bouzas Mosquera, F. Broullon, N. Alvarez-Garcia, J. Peteiro, G. Barge-Caballero, M. Lopez-Perez, A. Lopez-Sainz, A. Castro-Beiras, M. Luotolahti, H. Luotolahti, I. Kantola, J. Viikari, M. Andersen, M. Ersboell, J. Bro-Jeppesen, F. Gustafsson, L. Koeber, C. Hassager, J. Moller, D. Coisne, C. Diakov, F. Vallet, B. Lequeux, P. Blouin, L. Christiaens, R. Esposito, A. Santoro, V. Schiano Lomoriello, R. Raia, C. Santoro, G. De Simone, M. Galderisi, G. Abdula, W. Kosmala, H. Szczepanik-Osadnik, M. Przewlocka-Kosmala, A. Mysiak, T. O' Moore-Sullivan, T. Marwick, Y. T. Tan, F. Wenzelburger, F. Leyva, J. Sanderson, P. Pichler, B. Syeda, P. Hoefer, A. Zuckermann, T. Binder, M. Fijalkowski, A. Koprowski, R. Galaska, K. Blaut, K. Sworczak, A. Rynkiewicz, S. Lee, W. Kim, L. Jung, H. Yun, M. Song, J. Ko, E. A. Khalifa, P. Szymanski, M. Lipczynska, A. Klisieiwcz, P. Hoffman, C. Jorge, J. Silva Marques, S. Robalo Martins, C. Calisto, M. Mieiro, S. Vieira, M. Correia, J. Carvalho De Sousa, A. Almeida, A. Nunes Diogo, C. Park, K. March, T. Tillin, J. Mayet, N. Chaturvedi, A. Hughes, V. Di Bello, C. Giannini, M. Delle Donne, F. De Sanctis, P. Spontoni, C. Cucco, A. Corciu, C. Grigoratos, F. Bogazzi, A. Balbarini, O. Enescu, B. Suran, M. Florescu, M. Cinteza, D. Vinereanu, Y. Higuchi, K. Iwakura, A. Okamura, M. Date, K. Fujii, N. Cortez-Dias, D. Silva, P. Carrilho-Ferreira, A. Magalhaes, S. Ribeiro, S. Goncalves, M. Fiuza, F. Pinto, R. Placido, A. Bordalo, P. Grzywocz, K. Mizia-Stec, J. Chudek, Z. Gasior, A. M. Maceira Gonzalez, J. Cosin Sales, E. Dalli, B. Igual, J. Diago, J. Aguilar, J. Ruvira, S. Cimino, G. Pedrizzetti, G. Tonti, E. Canali, V. Petronilli, F. Boccalini, A. Mattatelli, Y. Hiramoto, C. Iacoboni, L. Agati, D. Trifunovic, M. Ostojic, B. Vujisic-Tesic, M. Petrovic, I. Nedeljkovic, M. Banovic, M. Boricic-Kostic, G. Draganic, M. Tesic, C. Gavina, R. Lopes, A. Lourenco, J. Almeida, J. Rodrigues, P. Pinho, J. Zamorano, A. Leite-Moreira, F. Rocha-Goncalves, M.-A. Clavel, R. Capoulade, J. Dumesnil, P. Mathieu, J.-P. Despres, P. Pibarot, S. Bull, A. Pitcher, D. Augustine, J. D'arcy, T. Karamitsos, A. Rai, B. Prendergast, H. Becher, S. Neubauer, S. Myerson, J. Magne, E. Donal, L. Davin, K. O'connor, C. Pirlet, M. Rosca, C. Szymanski, B. Cosyns, L. Pierard, P. Lancellotti, A. Calin, B. Popescu, C. Beladan, R. Enache, L. Lupascu, C. Sandu, C. Ginghina, V. Kamperidis, S. Hadjimiltiadis, G. Sianos, K. Anastasiadis, V. Grosomanidis, G. Efthimiadis, H. Karvounis, G. Parharidis, I. Styliadis, C. Gonzalez Canovas, C. Munoz-Esparza, J. Bonaque Gonzalez, A. Fernandez, M. Salar Alcaraz, D. Saura Espin, E. Pinar Bermudez, M. Oliva-Sandoval, G. De La Morena Valenzuela, M. Valdes Chavarri, E. Brochet, L. Lepage, D. Attias, D. Detaint, D. Himbert, B. Iung, B. Pirat, S. Little, S. Chang, L. Tiller, R. Kumar, W. Zoghbi, A. P.-W. Lee, M. Hsiung, S. Wan, R. Wong, F. Luo, F. Fang, J. Xie, M. Underwood, J. Sun, C. Yu, R. Jansen, W. Tietge, K. Sijbrandij, M. Cramer, L. De Heer, J. Kluin, S. A. J. Chamuleau, T. Oliveras Vila, E. Ferrer Sistach, L. Delgado Ramis, J. Lopez Ayerbe, N. Vallejo Camazon, F. Gual Capllonch, C. Garcia Alonso, A. Teis Soley, X. Ruyra Baliarda, A. Bayes Genis, S. Negrea, C. Alexandrescu, F. Bourlon, F. Civaia, G. Dreyfus, S. Paetzold, O. Luha, R. Hoedl, G. Stoschitzky, K. Pfeiffer, D. Zweiker, B. Pieske, R. Maier, T. Sevilla, A. Revilla, J. Lopez, I. Vilacosta, R. Arnold, I. Gomez, J. San Roman, G. Nikcevic, A. Djordjevic Dikic, S. Djordjevic, S. Raspopovic, V. Jovanovic, B. Kircanski, S. Pavlovic, G. Milasinovic, I. Ruiz-Zamora, F. Cabrera Bueno, M. Molina, J. Fernandez-Pastor, J. Pena, A. Linde, A. Barrera, J. Alzueta, C. Bremont, A. Bensaid, H. Alonso, O. Zaghden, J. Nahum, J. Dubois-Rande, P. Gueret, P. Lim, S.-P. Lee, K. Park, H.-R. Kim, J.-H. Lee, H.-S. Ahn, J.-H. Kim, H.-K. Kim, Y.-J. Kim, D.-W. Sohn, M. Niemann, S. Herrmann, K. Hu, D. Liu, M. Beer, G. Ertl, C. Wanner, T. Takenaka, C. Tei, F. Weidemann, H. Madeira, M. Mendes Pedro, D. Brito, R. Ippolito, D. De Palma, S. Gati, D. Oxborough, M. Reed, A. Zaidi, S. Ghani, N. Sheikh, M. Papadakis, S. Sharma, V. Chow, A. Ng, T. Pasqualon, W. Zhao, D. Hanzek, T. Chung, T. Yeoh, L. Kritharides, L. Magda, D. Mihalcea, D. Jinga, R. Mincu, E. Ferrazzi, G. Segato, F. Folino, G. Famoso, M. Senzolo, R. Bellu, F. Corbetti, F. Tona, O. Azevedo, I. Quelhas, J. Guardado, M. Fernandes, V. Pereira, R. Medeiros, P. Sousa, W. Santos, S. Pereira, N. Marques, J. Mimoso, V. Marques, I. Jesus, L. Rustad, K. Nytroen, L. Gullestad, B. Amundsen, S. Aakhus, K. Linhartova, G. Sterbakova, J. Necas, S. Kovalova, R. Cerbak, N. Nelassov, N. Korotkijan, A. Shishkina, B. Gagieva, M. Nagaplev, O. Eroshenko, M. Morgunov, S. Parmon, S. Velthuis, M. Van Gent, M. Post, C. Westermann, J. Mager, R. Snijder, S. P. Koyalakonda, M. Anderson, M. Burgess, L. Bergenzaun, M. Chew, H. Ohlin, G. F. Gjerdalen, J. Hisdal, E. Solberg, T. Andersen, Z. Radunovic, K. Steine, T. Rutz, A. Kuehn, K. Petzuch, M. Pekala, J. Elmenhorst, S. Fratz, J. Mueller, A. Hager, J. Hess, M. Vogt, D. Van Der Linde, I. Van De Laar, M. Wessels, J. Bekkers, A. Moelker, H. Tanghe, F. Van Kooten, R. Oldenburg, A. Bertoli-Avella, J. Roos-Hesselink, A. Cresti, L. Fontani, P. Calabria, E. Capati, S. Severi, M. Lynch, S. Saraf, B. Sandler, S. Yoon, S. Kim, C. Ko, S. Ryu, Y. Byun, H. Seo, Q. Ciampi, F. Rigo, L. Pratali, S. Gherardi, B. Villari, E. Picano, R. Sicari, J. Celutkiene, D. Zakarkaite, V. Skorniakov, V. Zvironaite, V. Grabauskiene, J. Sinicyna, G. Gruodyte, K. Janonyte, A. Laucevicius, J. O'driscoll, K. Schmid, A. Marciniak, A. Saha, S. Gupta, R. Smith, R. Sharma, N. Alvarez Garcia, O. Prada, A. Rodriguez Vilela, G. Barge Caballero, M. Lopez Perez, A. Lopez Sainz, A. Castro Beiras, J. Kochanowski, P. Scislo, R. Piatkowski, M. Grabowski, M. Marchel, M. Roik, D. Kosior, G. Opolski, C. M. Van De Heyning, H. Mahjoub, H. Clausen, C. Basaggianis, J. Newton, A. Del Pasqua, A. Carotti, D. Di Carlo, E. Cetrano, A. Toscano, R. Iacobelli, C. Esposito, M. Chinali, G. Pongiglione, G. Rinelli, M. Larsson, A. Bjallmark, K. Caidahl, L. Brodin, H. Gao, M. Lugiez, C. Guivier, R. Rieu, J. D'hooge, G. Hang, C. Guerin, M. Menard, J.-U. Voigt, J. Dungu, G. Campos, R. Jaffarulla, S. Gomes-Pereira, N. Sutaria, C. Baker, P. Nihoyannopoulos, M. Bellamy, D. Harries, N. Walker, P. Pearson, J. Reiken, J. Batteson, R. Kamdar, F. Murgatroyd, A. D'andrea, L. Riegler, R. Scarafile, E. Pezzullo, G. Salerno, E. Bossone, G. Limongelli, M. Russo, G. Pacileo, R. Calabro', Y. Kang, J. Cui, H. Chen, C. Pan, X. Shu, A. Kiotsekoglou, S. Saha, R. Toole, S. Govind, A. Gopal, F. Crispi, B. Bijnens, E. Sepulveda-Swatson, J. Rojas-Benavente, J. Dominguez, M. Illa, E. Eixarch, M. Sitges, E. Gratacos, C. Prinz, R. Faludi, A. Walker, M. Amzulescu, T. Uejima, A. Fraser, J. Voigt, M. Esmaeilzadeh, M. Maleki, A. Amin, F. Vakilian, F. Noohi, Z. Ojaghi Haghighi, P. Nakhostin Davari, H. Bakhshandeh Abkenar, R. Rimbas, R. Dulgheru, A. Margulescu, M. D' Asaro, C. Mizzon, F. Parisi, B.-C. Jung, B.-Y. Lee, H.-J. Kang, M. Kim, Y. Kim, D. Cho, S. Park, S. Hong, D. Lim, W. Shim, H. Bellsham-Revell, S. Tibby, A. J. Bell, O. I. Miller, G. Greil, J. M. Simpson, R. A. Providencia, J. Trigo, A. Botelho, P. Gomes, L. Seca, S. Barra, A. Faustino, G. Costa, N. Quintal, A. Leitao-Marques, E. Nestaas, A. Stoylen, D. Fugelseth, C. Mornos, A. Ionac, L. Petrescu, D. Cozma, D. Dragulescu, A. Mornos, S. Pescariu, A. Fontana, M. Abbate, M. Cazzaniga, C. Giannattasio, G. Trocino, K. Laser, L. Faber, M. Fischer, H. Koerperich, D. Kececioglu, M. F. Elnoamany, A. Dawood, M. Elhabashy, Y. Khalil, N. Piriou, K. Warin-Fresse, M. Caza, G. Fau, D. Crochet, N. Xhabija, I. Allajbeu, E. Petrela, M. Heba, M. Barreiro Perez, M. Martin Fernandez, A. Renilla Gonzalez, J. Florez Munoz, O. Fernandez Cimadevilla, I. Alvarez Pichel, E. Velasco Alonso, D. Leon Duran, E. Benito Martin, S. Secades Gonzalez, L. Gargani, P. Pang, E. Davis, A. Schumacher, A. Silva Ferreira, N. Bettencourt, P. Matos, L. Oliveira, J. Cosin-Sales, M. Lopez Lereu, J. Monmeneu, J. Estornell, M. Tsverava, D. Tsverava, A. Varela, M. Salagianni, I. Galani, E. Andreakos, C. Davos, I. Ikonomidis, J. Lekakis, V. Tritakis, N. Kadoglou, J. Papadakis, P. Trivilou, S. Tzortzis, C. Koukoulis, I. Paraskevaidis, M. Anastasiou-Nana, G. Kim, H. Youn, P. Ibrahimi, G. Bajraktari, F. Jashari, A. Ahmeti, A. Poniku, E. Haliti, M. Henein, B. Pezo Nikolic, H. Jurin, D. Lovric, Z. Baricevic, I. Ivanac Vranesic, M. Lovric Bencic, A. Ernst, and J. Separovic Hanzevacki

Subjects
Novel technique, business.industry, Medicine, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging, Computer vision, Nanotechnology, General Medicine, Contrast (music), Artificial intelligence, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, business
Published
2011

84. Validation of Echocardiographic Left Atrial Parameters in Atrial Fibrillation Using the Index Beat of Preceding Cardiac Cycles of Equal Duration

Author

Abhay Bajpai, Gabor Borgulya, Bart Bijnens, Anatoli Kiotsekoglou, John Camm, Malini Govindan, Samir K. Saha, and Giuseppe A. Sagnella

Subjects
Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Functional indices, Beat (acoustics), Heart Rate, Left atrial, Internal medicine, Atrial Fibrillation, medicine, Humans, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging, Heart Atria, Prospective Studies, Cycle length, Aged, business.industry, Follow up studies, Reproducibility of Results, Stroke Volume, Atrial fibrillation, Middle Aged, Prognosis, medicine.disease, Echocardiography, Doppler, Anesthesia, cardiovascular system, Cardiology, Atrial Function, Left, Female, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, business, Follow-Up Studies
Abstract

Background The clinical assessment of left atrial function during atrial fibrillation is challenging and often inaccurate because of the beat-to-beat variability in the cycle length. The aim of this study was to validate the use of an index beat, the beat following two preceding cardiac cycles of equal duration, for the measurement of left atrial functional indices, including area, volume, and expansion index. The index beat was compared with the conventional but time-consuming method of averaging multiple consecutive cardiac cycles. Methods Thirty patients with persistent or permanent atrial fibrillation were studied using two-dimensional echocardiography, and left atrial indices were measured from the average of 17 consecutive cardiac cycles compared with that of an index beat taken from outside of these 17 cycles. Results The index beat showed good correlation with the averaging technique, and comparison of the two methods showed them to be interchangeable. Clinically, the differences in left atrial functional indices between the two methods were minor. Conclusions Use of the index beat to measure dynamic left atrial function in atrial fibrillation can easily be performed and is as accurate as and less time consuming than the onerous method of averaging of multiple cardiac cycles.

Published
2011

85. Global Left Atrial Strain Correlates with CHADS2 Risk Score in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation

Author

Naoyo Mori, Satish C. Govind, Susan Wilansky, Paula L. Anderson, Giuseppe Caracciolo, Partho P. Sengupta, Samir K. Saha, and Anatoli Kiotsekoglou

Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty, Framingham Risk Score, Cross-sectional study, Proportional hazards model, business.industry, Case-control study, Atrial fibrillation, Speckle tracking echocardiography, Odds ratio, medicine.disease, Confidence interval, Internal medicine, medicine, Cardiology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, business
Abstract

Background The aim of this cross-sectional study was to explore the association between echocardiographic parameters and CHADS 2 score in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (AF). Methods Seventy-seven subjects (36 patients with AF, 41 control subjects) underwent standard two-dimensional, Doppler, and speckle-tracking echocardiography to compute regional and global left atrial (LA) strain. Results Global longitudinal LA strain was reduced in patients with AF compared with controls ( P 2 score ≥ 2; odds ratio, 0.86; P = .02). LA strain indexes showed good interobserver and intraobserver variability. In sequential Cox models, the prediction of hospitalization and/or death was improved by addition of global LA strain and indexed LA volume to CHADS 2 score ( P = .003). Conclusions LA strain is a reproducible marker of dynamic LA function and a predictor of stroke risk and cardiovascular outcomes in patients with AF.

Published
2011

86. Assessment of Aortic Stiffness in Marfan Syndrome Using Two-Dimensional and Doppler Echocardiography

Author

James C. Moggridge, Francisco Alpendurada, George R. Sutherland, Anne H. Child, Venediktos V Kapetanakis, Samir K. Saha, Michael J. Mullen, John Camm, Bart Bijnens, Anatoli Kiotsekoglou, and Malini Govindan

Subjects
musculoskeletal diseases, Aortic valve, Marfan syndrome, Aortic arch, medicine.medical_specialty, Aorta, medicine.diagnostic_test, business.industry, Doppler echocardiography, medicine.disease, QRS complex, medicine.anatomical_structure, Internal medicine, medicine.artery, Descending aorta, cardiovascular system, Cardiology, Medicine, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging, Aortic stiffness, cardiovascular diseases, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, business
Abstract

Background: Extracellular matrix remodeling in the aortic wall results in increased aortic stiffness (AoS) in Marfan syndrome (MFS). Pulsed-wave velocity (PWV) constitutes the best indirect AoS measurement. We aimed to assess PWV in MFS patients using two-dimensional (2D) and Doppler echocardiography. Methods: Thirty-one MFS patients, (mean age 31 ± 14 years, 16 men) and 31 controls were examined. Blood flow was recorded in the aorta near the aortic valve and immediately after in the descending aorta with simultaneous electrocardiography. PWV was calculated by dividing the distance between the two sample volume positions (D) by the time difference (TD) between the intervals from the QRS start to the ascending and descending aortic flow onsets. B-stiffness was also measured. Results: TD (described in “Methods” section) and, aortic arch length were significantly increased in MFS patients, P < 0.001. Thus, PWV values were significantly higher in patients when compared with controls, 7.20 m/s (5.12, 9.43) versus 4.64 m/s (3.37, 6.24), P < 0.001. B-stiffness was also significantly increased in MFS patients; 5.15 (3.69, 7.65) versus 2.44 (1.82, 3.66), P < 0.001. Multiple regression analysis showed a positive association with MFS diagnosis and age, (P = 0.002 and 0.009, respectively). Reproducibility of PWV measurements was

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2011

87. Poster session V * Saturday 11 December 2010, 08:30-12:30

Author

Q. H. Pham, T. G. Von Lueder, S. K. Namtvedt, H. Rosjo, T. Omland, K. Steine, A. T. Timoteo, M. Mota Carmo, M. Simoes, L. M. Branco, R. C. Ferreira, R. Kato, J. Ito, T. Tahara, Y. Yokoyama, T. Ashikaga, Y. Satoh, J. O. Na, H. E. Hong, M. N. Kim, S. Y. Shin, C. U. Choi, E. J. Kim, S. W. Rha, C. G. Park, H. S. Seo, D. J. Oh, R. Ticulescu, S. Brigido, O. Vriz, L. Sparacino, B. A. Popescu, C. Ginghina, S. Carerj, G. L. Nicolosi, F. Antonini-Canterin, J. J. Onaindia Gandarias, A. Romero, E. Laraudogoitia, S. Velasco, O. Quintana, A. Cacicedo, I. Rodriguez, J. A. Alarcon, J. Gonzalez, I. Lekuona, A. Subinas, G. Abdula, L. H. Lund, R. Winter, L. Brodin, A. Sahlen, M. Masaki, Y. M. Cha, T. Yuasa, K. Dong, Y. X. Dong, S. V. Mankad, J. K. Oh, F. Vallet, B. Lequeux, C. Diakov, P. Sosner, L. Christiaens, D. Coisne, C. Kihara, K. Murata, Y. Wada, K. Uchida, T. Ueyama, S. Okuda, T. Susa, M. Matsuzaki, E. J. Cho, K. Y. Choi, B. J. Kwon, D. B. Kim, S. W. Jang, J. S. Cho, H. O. Jung, H. K. Jeon, H. J. Youn, J. H. Kim, M. Cikes, B. Bijnens, V. Velagic, T. Kopjar, D. Milicic, B. Biocina, H. Gasparovic, I. Almuntaser, A. Brown, B. Foley, N. Mulvihill, P. Crean, G. King, R. Murphy, Y. Takata, M. Taniguchi, S. Nobusada, M. Sugawara, N. Toh, K. Kusano, H. Itoh, E. Wellnhofer, C. Kriatselis, S. Nedios, J. H. Gerds-Li, E. Fleck, M. K. Poulsen, J. E. Henriksen, J. Dahl, A. Johansen, T. Haghfelt, P. F. Hoilund-Carlsen, H. Beck-Nielsen, J. E. Moller, R. Dankowski, M. Wierzchowiecki, M. Michalski, A. Nowicka, K. Szymanowska, A. Pajak, K. Poprawski, A. Szyszka, M. Kasner, D. Westermann, H. P. Schultheiss, C. Tschoepe, T. Watanabe, M. Iwai-Takano, A. Kobayashi, H. Machii, Y. Takeishi, B. P. Paelinck, P. L. Van Herck, J. M. Bosmans, C. J. Vrints, H. J. Lamb, A. Doltra, B. Vidal, E. Silva, S. Poyatos, L. Mont, A. Berruezo, A. Castel, J. M. Tolosana, J. Brugada, M. Sitges, M. Dencker, O. Bjorgell, J. Hlebowicz, Z. S. Szelenyi, G. Szenasi, M. Kiss, Z. Prohaszka, A. Patocs, I. Karadi, A. Vereckei, S. K. Saha, P. L. Anderson, S. Govind, M. Govindan, J. C. Moggridge, A. Kiotsekoglou, A. S. Gopal, B. B. Loegstrup, T. B. Christophersen, D. E. Hoefsten, J. E. Moeller, H. E. Boetker, K. Egstrup, M. Graefe, F. Q. Huang, R. S. Zhang, T. T. Le, R. S. Tan, R. Sattarzadeh Badkoubeh, A. Tavoosi, A. R. Elahian, O. Drapkina, V. I. Ivashkin, A. Fazakas, L. Pepo, O. Janosi, I. Kopitovic, A. Goncalves, P. Marcos-Alberca, C. Almeria, G. Feltes, E. Rodriguez, E. Garcia, R. Hernandez-Antolin, C. Macaya, J. Silva Cardoso, J. L. Zamorano, M. S. Navarro, M. Valentin, C. M. Banes, F. Rigo, E. Grolla, F. Tona, V. Cuaia, A. Moreo, L. Badano, A. Raviele, S. Iliceto, P. Tarzia, A. Sestito, R. Nerla, A. Di Monaco, F. Infusino, D. Matera, F. Greco, R. M. Tacchino, G. A. Lanza, F. Crea, A. Nemes, E. Balazs, K. S. Pinter, A. Egyed, M. Csanady, T. Forster, E. Holte, J. Vegsundvag, T. Hole, K. Hegbom, R. Wiseth, D. Sharif, A. Sharif-Rasslan, C. Shahla, A. Khalil, U. Rosenschein, A. Zagatina, N. Zhuravskaya, T. V. Tyurina, E. Tagliamonte, T. Cirillo, A. Coppola, U. Marinelli, C. Romano, G. Riccio, R. Citro, C. Astarita, N. Capuano, G. Quaranta, A. Desiderio, S. Frattini, P. Faggiano, V. Zilioli, E. Locantore, S. Longhi, F. Bellandi, G. Faden, M. Triggiani, L. Dei Cas, M. Dalsgaard, J. Kjaergaard, K. Iversen, C. Hassager, W. Dinh, W. N. Nickl, J. S. Smettan, T. K. Koehler, T. D. Scheffold, M. C. B. Coll Barroso, J. G. Guelker, R. F. Fueth, V. Kamperidis, S. Hadjimiltiades, G. Sianos, G. Efthimiadis, H. Karvounis, G. Parcharidis, I. H. Styliadis, M. S. Velasco Del Castillo, J. J. Onaindia, M. Telleria, H. G. Carstensen, C. Nordenberg, P. Sogaard, T. Fritz-Hansen, J. Bech, S. Galatius, J. S. Jensen, R. Mogelvang, P. E. Bartko, S. Graf, R. Rosenhek, I. G. Burwash, J. Bergler-Klein, M.-A. Clavel, H. Baumgartner, P. Pibarot, G. Mundigler, B. Kirilmaz, I. Eser, N. Tuzun, B. Komur, H. Dogan, A. Taskiran Comez, E. Ercan, M. Cusma-Piccione, C. Zito, G. Oreto, S. Piluso, S. Tripepi, L. Oreto, C. Longordo, L. Ciraci, G. Di Bella, R. Piatkowski, J. Kochanowski, P. Scislo, M. Grabowski, M. Marchel, M. Roik, D. Kosior, G. Opolski, L. Sknouril, M. Dorda, B. Holek, L. Gajdusek, J. Chovancik, M. Branny, M. Fiala, P. Szymanski, M. Lipczynska, A. Klisiewicz, P. Hoffman, N. Jander, J. Minners, G. Martin, W. Zeh, M. Allgeier, C. Gohlke-Baewolf, H. Gohlke, S. Nistri, M. C. Porciani, M. Attanasio, R. Abbate, G. F. Gensini, G. Pepe, R. F. Duncan, C. Piantadosi, A. J. Nelson, G. Wittert, B. Dundon, M. I. Worthley, S. G. Worthley, P. Jung, K. Berlinger, J. Rieber, H. Z. Sohn, P. Schneider, M. Leibig, A. Koenig, V. Klauss, L. Tomkiewicz-Pajak, J. Kolcz, M. Olszowska, M. Pieculewicz, P. Podolec, T. Przewlocki, E. Suchon, B. Sobien, P. Wilkolek, A. Ziembicka, M. Hlawaty, A. Van De Bruaene, H. Hermans, R. Buys, L. Vanhees, M. Delcroix, J.-U. Voigt, W. Budts, E. De Cillis, T. Acquaviva, D. Basile, A. S. Bortone, D. Kalimanovska-Ostric, T. Nastasovic, B. Vujisic-Tesic, I. Jovanovic, B. Milakovic, M. Dostanic, M. Stosic, A. Frogoudaki, K. Andreou, J. Parisis, E. Triantafyllidi, S. Gaitani, J. Paraskevaidis, M. Anastasiou-Nana, G. De Pasquale, A. Kuehn, K. Petzuch, J. Mueller, C. Meierhofer, S. Fratz, A. Hager, J. Hess, M. Vogt, C. H. Attenhofer Jost, J. A. Dearani, C. G. Scott, H. M. Burkhart, H. M. Connolly, A. Vitarelli, D. Battaglia, F. Caranci, V. Padella, G. Continanza, O. Dettori, L. Capotosto, M. Vitarelli, V. De Cicco, M. Cortez Morichetti, K. K. Mohanan Nair, B. Sasidaharan, A. Thajudeen, J. M. Tharakan, L. Mertens, N. Ahmad, P. K. Kantor, L. Grosse-Wortmann, M. K. Friedberg, Y. F. Bernard, M. A. Morel, V. Descotes-Genon, J. Jehl, N. Meneveau, F. Schiele, M. Kaldararova, I. Simkova, P. Tittel, J. Masura, O. Trojnarska, L. Szczepaniak, K. Mizia -Stec, A. Cieplucha, A. Bartczak, S. Grajek, A. Tykarski, Z. Gasior, D. Babovicvuksanovic, C. R. Bonnichsen, G. J. Morgan, C. Slorach, W. Hui, T. Sarkola, K. J. Lee, R. Chaturvedi, L. Benson, T. Bradley, M. E. Iancu, I. Ghiorghiu, M. Serban, I. Craciunescu, A. Hodo, J. Morgan, L. Roche, K. Lee, O. Milanesi, V. Favero, M. Padalino, R. Biffanti, A. Cerutti, N. Maschietto, E. Reffo, V. Vida, G. Stellin, O. Irtyuga, D. Gamazin, I. Voronkina, N. Tsoyi, E. Gudkova, O. Moiseeva, C. Aggeli, C. Kazazaki, I. Felekos, S. Lagoudakou, G. Roussakis, J. Skoumas, C. Pitsavos, C. Stefanadis, C. Cueff, N. Keenan, P. G. Steg, C. Cimadevilla, G. Ducrocq, A. Vahanian, D. Messika-Zeitoun, L. Petrella, A. M. Mazzola, C. V. Villani, R. G. Giancola, M. C. Ciocca, D. E. M. Di Eusanio, S. Nolan, A. Ionescu, T. R. Skaug, B. H. Amundsen, T. Hergum, H. Torp, B. O. Haugen, J. Lopez Aguilera, D. Mesa Rubio, M. Ruiz Ortiz, M. Delgado Ortega, E. Villanueva Fernandez, L. Cejudo Diaz Del Campo, F. Toledano Delgado, M. Leon Del Pino, E. Romo Pena, J. Suarez De Lezo Cruz-Conde, E. De Marco, A. Colucci, G. Comerci, F. A. Gabrielli, R. Natali, B. Garramone, M. Savino, M. Lotrionte, A. Sonaglioni, F. Loperfido, M. Zdravkovic, J. Perunicic, M. Krotin, M. Ristic, V. Vukomanovic, M. Zaja, S. Radovanovic, J. Saric, D. Zdravkovic, C. Cotrim, A. R. Almeida, R. Miranda, A. G. Almeida, E. Picano, M. Carrageta, A. D'andrea, R. Cocchia, L. Riegler, E. Golia, R. Scarafile, P. Caso, M. G. Russo, E. Bossone, R. Calabro', H. Noman, A. Adel, A. M. R. Elfaramawy, M. Abdelraouf, W. A. E. L. Elnaggar, E. Baligh, L. Sargento, D. Silva, S. Goncalves, S. Ribeiro, G. Vinhas Sousa, A. Almeida, M. Lopes, M. Rodriguez-Manero, L. Aguado Gil, P. Azcarate, P. Lloret Luna, A. Macias Gallego, S. A. R. A. Castano, M. Garcia, C. Pujol Salvador, J. Barba, P. Redondo, L. Tomasoni, S. Sitia, F. Atzeni, L. Gianturco, C. Ricci, P. Sarzi-Puttini, M. Turiel, V. De Gennaro Colonna, T. Uejima, J. Jaroch, C. Polombo, A. Hughes, D. Vinereanu, A. Evanvelista, G. Leftheriotis, A. G. Fraser, A. Lewczuk, B. Sobkowicz, A. Tomaszuk-Kazberuk, R. Sawicki, T. Hirnle, B. W. Michalski, D. Filipiak, J. D. Kasprzak, P. Lipiec, H. Dalen, O. C. Mjolstad, B. E. Klykken, T. Graven, M. Martensson, M. Olsson, L.-A. Brodin, R. Enache, E. Leiballi, A. Penhall, R. Perry, M. Altman, A. Sinhal, J. Bennetts, D. P. Chew, M. X. Joseph, L. H. Larsen, T. Kristensen, L. V. Kober, K. F. Kofoed, F. Moscoso Costa, R. Ribeiras, J. Brito, S. Boshoff, J. Neves, R. Teles, M. Canada, M. J. Andrade, R. Gouveia, A. Silva, A. Miskovic, T. P. Poerner, C. S. Stiller, B. G. Goebel, A. M. Moritz, L. Stefani, G. G. Galanti, M. Moraldo, C. Bergamini, P. A. Pabari, N. M. Dhutia, A. S. N. Malaweera, K. Willson, J. Davies, A. D. Hughes, X. Y. Xu, D. P. Francis, R. Jasaityte, B. Amundsen, D. Barbosa, D. Loeckx, G. Kiss, F. Orderud, V. Robesyn, P. Claus, J. D'hooge, T. Nao, T. Miura, K. Shams, S. Samir, R. Samir, M. El-Sayed, A. M. Anwar, Y. Nosir, A. Galal, H. Chamsi-Pasha, A. Ciobanu, R. Dulgheru, S. Bennett, A. De Luca, L. Toncelli, F. Cappelli, B. Cappelli, M. C. R. Vono, G. Galanti, Y. Zorman, M. S. Yilmazer, M. Akyildiz, T. Gurol, A. Aydin, B. Dagdeviren, and A. Kalangos

Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty, business.industry, Physical therapy, Medicine, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging, General Medicine, Session (computer science), Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, business
Published
2010

88. Poster session III * Friday 10 December 2010, 08:30-12:30

Author

D. Guldbrand, O. Goetzsche, B. Eika, N. Watanabe, M. Taniguchi, T. Akagi, N. Koide, S. Sano, B. Orbovic, B. Obrenovic-Kircanski, S. Ristic, L. J. Soskic, F. Alhabshan, A. Jijeh, H. Abo Remsh, A. Alkhaldi, H. K. Najm, Z. Gasior, M. Skowerski, A. Kulach, L. Szymanski, M. Sosnowski, M. Wang, C. W. Siu, K. Lee, W. S. Yue, G. H. Yan, S. Lee, C. P. Lau, H. F. Tse, K. O'connor, M. Rosca, J. Magne, G. Romano, M. Moonen, L. A. Pierard, P. Lancellotti, M. Floria, L. De Roy, D. Blommaert, J. Jamart, F. Dormal, M. Lacrosse, C. Arsenescu Georgescu, V. Mizariene, S. Bucyte, A. Bertasiute, E. Pociute, D. Zaliaduonyte-Peksiene, K. Baronaite-Dudoniene, R. Sileikiene, J. Vaskelyte, R. Jurkevicius, M. Dencker, O. Thorsson, M. K. Karlsson, C. Linden, P. Wollmer, L. B. Andersen, O. Catalano, M. R. Perotti, E. Colombo, M. De Giorgi, M. Cattaneo, F. Cobelli, S. G. Priori, C. Ober, I. A. Iancu Adrian, P. A. Andreea Parv, C. H. Cadis Horatiu, O. M. Ober Mihai, M. Chmielecki, M. Fijalkowski, R. Galaska, W. Dubaniewicz, L. Lewicki, R. Targonski, D. Ciecwierz, W. Puchalski, A. Koprowski, A. Rynkiewicz, K. Hristova, A. La Gerche, T. Z. Katova, V. Kostova, Y. Simova, A. Kempny, G. P. Diller, S. Orwat, G. Kaleschke, G. Kerckhoff, R. Schmidt, R. M. Radke, H. Baumgartner, K. Smarz, B. Zaborska, T. Jaxa-Chamiec, P. Maciejewski, A. Budaj, A. Kiotsekoglou, S. C. Govind, V. Gadiyaram, J. C. Moggridge, M. Govindan, A. S. Gopal, S. S. Ramesh, L. A. Brodin, S. K. Saha, I. S. Ramzy, P. Lindqvist, Y. Y. Lam, A. M. Duncan, M. Y. Henein, I. S. Craciunescu, M. Serban, M. Iancu, C. Revnic, B. A. Popescu, D. Alexandru, D. Rogoz, V. Uscatescu, C. Ginghina, G. Careri, A. Di Monaco, R. Nerla, P. Tarzia, P. Lamendola, A. Sestito, G. A. Lanza, F. Crea, F. Giannini, B. Pinamonti, S. Santangelo, A. Perkan, G. Vitrella, S. Rakar, M. Merlo, E. Della Grazia, A. Salvi, G. Sinagra, P. Scislo, J. Kochanowski, R. Piatkowski, M. Roik, M. Postula, G. Opolski, J. Castillo, N. Herszkowicz, C. Ferreira, M. T. Lonnebakken, E. M. Staal, J. E. Nordrehaug, E. Gerdts, M. Przewlocka-Kosmala, A. Orda, B. Karolko, G. Bajraktari, U. Gustafsson, A. Holmgren, S. Frattini, P. Faggiano, V. Zilioli, E. Locantore, S. Longhi, F. Bellandi, G. Faden, M. Triggiani, L. Dei Cas, S. M. Seo, H. O. Jung, S. H. An, S. Y. Jung, C. S. Park, H. K. Jeon, H. J. Youn, W. B. Chung, J. H. Kim, J. S. Uhm, W. Mampuya, M. C. Brochu, D. H. Do, B. Essadiqi, P. Farand, S. Lepage, M. J. Daly, M. Monaghan, A. Hamilton, C. Lockhart, V. Kodoth, C. Maguire, A. Morton, G. Manoharan, M. S. Spence, W. Streb, K. Mitrega, J. Nowak, A. Duszanska, M. Szulik, M. Kalinowski, T. Kukulski, Z. Kalarus, F. E. Calvo Iglesias, I. Solla-Ruiz, I. Villanueva-Benito, E. Paredes-Galan, M. Bravo-Amaro, A. Iniguez-Romo, O. Yildirimturk, F. F. Helvacioglu, Y. Tayyareci, S. Yurdakul, I. C. Demiroglu, S. Aytekin, R. Enache, R. Piazza, D. Muraru, A. Roman-Pognuz, A. Calin, E. Leiballi, F. Antonini-Canterin, G. L. Nicolosi, C. Ridard, A. Bellouin, C. Thebault, M. Laurent, E. Donal, A. Sutandar, B. B. Siswanto, I. Irmalita, G. Harimurti, A. Saxena, S. Ramakrishnan, A. Roy, A. Krishnan, P. Misra, B. Bhargava, P. A. Poole-Wilson, B. B. Loegstrup, H. R. Andersen, S. H. Poulsen, K. E. Klaaborg, H. E. Egeblad, X. Gu, X. Y. Gu, Y. H. He, Z. A. Li, J. C. Han, J. Chen, N. Mansencal, E. Mitry, P. Rougier, O. Dubourg, H. Villarraga, K. Adjei-Twum, T. K. M. Cudjoe, A. Clavell, R. M. Schears, F. Cabrera Bueno, M. J. Molina Mora, J. Fernandez Pastor, A. Linde Estrella, J. L. Pena Hernandez, G. Isasti Aizpurua, F. Carrasco Chinchilla, A. Barrera Cordero, F. J. Alzueta Rodriguez, E. De Teresa Galvan, G. C. Gaetano Contegiacomo, F. P. Francesco Pollice, P. P. Paolo Pollice, M. C. Kontos, D. H. Shin, S. Y. Yoo, C. K. Lee, J. K. Jang, S. I. Jung, S. I. Song, S. I. Seo, S. S. Cheong, J. Peteiro, A. Perez-Perez, A. Bouzas-Mosquera, M. Pineiro, P. Pazos, R. Campo, A. Castro-Beiras, N. Gaibazzi, F. Rigo, D. Sartorio, C. Reverberi, S. Sitia, L. Tomasoni, L. Gianturco, L. Ghio, D. Stella, P. Greco, V. De Gennaro Colonna, M. Turiel, S. Cicala, V. Magagnin, E. Caiani, S. Kyrzopoulos, D. Tsiapras, G. Domproglou, E. Avramidou, V. Voudris, K. Wierzbowska-Drabik, P. Lipiec, L. Chrzanowski, N. Roszczyk, K. Kupczynska, J. D. Kasprzak, V. Sachpekidis, A. Bhan, S. Gianstefani, J. Reiken, M. Paul, P. Pearson, D. Harries, M. J. Monaghan, K. Dale, A. Stoylen, V. Kodali, R. Toole, P. Raju, R. A. Mcintosh, J. Silberbauer, O. Baumann, N. R. Patel, N. Sulke, U. Trivedi, J. Hyde, G. Venn, G. Lloyd, P. Wejner-Mik, K. Wierzbowska, J. A. Lowenstein, C. Caniggia, A. Garcia, M. Amor, N. Casso, D. Lowenstein Haber, C. Porley, G. Zambrana, V. Daru, M. Deljanin Ilic, S. Ilic, D. Kalimanovska Ostric, V. Stoickov, M. Zdravkovic, I. Paraskevaidis, I. Ikonomidis, J. Parissis, C. Papadopoulos, V. Stasinos, V. Bistola, M. Anastasiou-Nana, M. Gudin Uriel, J. R. Balaguer Malfagon, J. L. Perez Bosca, F. Ridocci Soriano, N. Martinez Alzamora, R. Paya Serrano, Q. Ciampi, L. Pratali, M. Della Porta, B. Petruzziello, B. Villari, E. Picano, R. Sicari, A. Rosner, D. Avenarius, S. Malm, A. Iqbal, A. Baltabaeva, G. R. Sutherland, B. Bijnens, T. Myrmel, M. Andersen, F. Gustafsson, N. H. Secher, P. Brassard, A. S. Jensen, C. Hassager, P. L. Madsen, J. E. Moller, M. Coutu, D. Greentree, D. Normandin, H. Brun, A. Dipchand, L. Koopman, C. T. Fackoury, S. Truong, C. Manlhiot, L. Mertens, M. Baroni, M. Mariani, H. K. Chabane, S. Berti, A. Ripoli, S. Storti, M. Glauber, P. A. Scopelliti, G. B. Antongiovanni, D. Personeni, A. Saino, M. Tespili, P. Jung, M. Mueller, F. Jander, H. Y. Sohn, J. Rieber, P. Schneider, V. Klauss, E. Agricola, M. Slavich, S. Stella, M. Ancona, M. Oppizzi, L. Bertoglio, G. Melissano, A. Margonato, R. Chiesa, L. Cejudo Diaz Del Campo, D. Mesa Rubio, M. Ruiz Ortiz, M. Delgado Ortega, E. Villanueva Fernandez, J. Lopez Aguilera, F. Toledano Delgado, M. Pan Alvarez-Ossorio, J. Suarez De Lezo Cruz Conde, M. Lafuente, T. Butz, A. Meissner, C. N. Lang, M. W. Prull, G. Plehn, H. J. Trappe, S. V. Nair, L. Lee, I. Mcleod, G. Whyte, J. Shrimpton, D. Hildick Smith, P. R. James, J. Slikkerveer, Y. E. A. Appelman, G. Veen, T. R. Porter, O. Kamp, P. Colonna, F. J. Ten Cate, D. Bokor, A. Daponte, M. Cocciolo, M. Bona, S. Sacchi, H. Becher, S. C. Chai, P. J. Tan, Y. S. Goh, S. H. Ong, J. Chow, L. L. Lee, P. P. Goh, K. L. Tong, R. Kakihara, C. Naruse, H. Hironaka, T. Tsuzuku, K. Ozawa, A. Tomaszuk-Kazberuk, B. Sobkowicz, J. Malyszko, J. S. Malyszko, R. Sawicki, T. Hirnle, S. Dobrzycki, M. Mysliwiec, W. J. Musial, W. Mathias, I. Kowatsch, A. L. R. Saroute, A. F. F. Osorio, J. C. N. Sbano, J. A. F. Ramires, J. M. Tsutsui, K. Sakata, H. Ito, K. Ishii, T. Sakuma, K. Iwakura, H. Yoshino, J. Yoshikawa, K. Shahgaldi, A. Lopez, B. Fernstrom, A. Sahlen, R. Winter, S. Kovalova, J. Necas, B. H. Amundsen, R. Jasaityte, G. Kiss, D. Barbosa, J. D'hooge, H. Torp, C. A. Szmigielski, J. D. Newton, K. Rajpoot, J. A. Noble, R. Kerber, L. P. Koopman, C. Slorach, N. Chahal, W. Hui, T. Sarkola, T. J. Bradley, E. T. Jaeggi, B. W. Mccrindle, A. Staron, M. Jasinski, S. Wos, P. Sengupta, D. Hayat, M. Kloeckner, J. Nahum, C. Dussault, J. L. Dubois Rande, P. Gueret, P. Lim, G. J. King, A. Brown, E. Ho, I. Amuntaser, K. Bennet, N. Mc Elhome, R. T. Murphy, R. M. Cooper, J. D. Somauroo, R. E. Shave, K. L. Williams, J. Forster, C. George, T. Bett, K. P. George, A. D'andrea, L. Riegler, R. Cocchia, E. Golia, R. Gravino, G. Salerno, R. Citro, P. I. O. Caso, E. Bossone, R. Calabro', F. Crispi, F. Figueras, J. Bartrons, E. Eixarch, F. Le Noble, A. Ahmed, E. Gratacos, Q. Shang, W. K. Yip, L. S. Tam, Q. Zhang, C. M. Li, T. Wang, C. Y. Ma, K. M. Li, C. M. Yu, T. Dahlslett, I. Helland, T. Edvardsen, H. Skulstad, L. S. Magda, M. Florescu, A. Ciobanu, R. Dulgheru, R. Mincu, D. Vinereanu, M. Luckie, S. Chacko, S. Nair, M. Mamas, R. S. Khattar, M. El-Omar, A. Kuch-Wocial, P. Pruszczyk, M. Szulc, G. Styczynski, M. Sinski, A. Kaczynska, Z. Vela, E. Haliti, V. Hyseni, R. Olloni, N. Rexhepaj, S. Elezi, J. J. Onaindia, O. Quintana, A. Cacicedo, S. Velasco, J. J. Alarcon, M. Morillas, J. R. Rumoroso, J. Zumalde, I. Lekuona, E. Laraudogoitia Zaldumbide, A. Poniku, A. Ahmeti, R. F. Duncan, J. M. Mccomb, J. Pemberton, S. W. Lord, D. Leong, C. Plummer, G. Macgowan, N. Grubb, M. Leung, A. Kenny, C. Prinz, J. U. Voigt, A. Zaidi, M. Heatley, S. Z. Abildstrom, A. Hvelplund, J. Berning, S. Govind, L. Brodin, A. Gopal, B. Castaldi, G. Di Salvo, G. Santoro, G. Gaio, M. T. Palladino, C. Iacono, G. Pacileo, M. G. Russo, R. Calabro, Y. S. Wang, L. L. Dong, X. H. Shu, C. Z. Pan, D. X. Zhou, T. Sen, O. Tufekcioglu, M. Ozdemir, A. Tuncez, B. Uygur, Z. Golbasi, H. Kisacik, L. Delfino, F. D. De Leo, L. C. Chiappa, B. Abdel Ghani, R. Schiavina, P. Salvade, A. Morganti, F. Bedogni, P. Mahia, L. Gutierrez, V. Pineda, B. Garcia, I. Otaegui, J. F. Rodriguez, M. T. Gonzalez, M. Descalzo, A. Evangelista, D. Garcia-Dorado, H. A. C. M. Bruin De- Bon, R. B. A. Van Den Brink, S. Surie, P. Bresser, J. Vleugels, H. M. Eckmann, D. A. Samson, B. J. Bouma, C. Dedobbeleer, M. Antoine, M. Remmelink, P. Unger, B. Roosens, I. Hmila, S. Hernot, S. Droogmans, G. Van Camp, T. Lahoutte, S. Muyldermans, B. Cosyns, G. Feltes, V. Serra, O. Azevedo, J. Barbado, J. Herrera, A. Rivera, J. Paniagua, V. Valverde, J. Torras, G. Arriba, T. Christodoulides, M. Ioannides, K. Simamonian, K. Yiangou, M. Myrianthefs, E. Nicolaides, M. Pandolfo, S. A. Kleijn, M. F. A. A. Aly, C. B. Terwee, A. C. Van Rossum, V. Delgado, M. Shanks, H. M. Siebelink, A. Sieders, H. Lamb, N. Ajmone Marsan, J. Westenberg, A. De Roos, J. D. Schuijf, J. J. Bax, A. M. Anwar, Y. Nosir, H. Chamsi-Pasha, H. D. Tschernich, J. Seeburger, M. Borger, C. Mukherjee, F. W. Mohr, J. Ender, K. Obase, H. Okura, R. Yamada, Y. Miyamoto, K. Saito, K. Imai, A. Hayashida, and K. Yoshida

Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty, business.industry, Physical therapy, Medicine, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging, General Medicine, Session (computer science), Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, business
Published
2010

89. Poster session II * Thursday 9 December 2010, 14:00-18:00

Author

P. A. Pabari, A. Kyriacou, M. Moraldo, B. Unsworth, R. Baruah, N. Sutaria, A. Hughes, J. Mayet, D. P. Francis, T. Uejima, K. Loboz, F. Antonini-Canterin, C. Polombo, S. Carerj, D. Vinereanu, A. Evangelista, G. Leftheriotis, A. G. Fraser, A. Kiotsekoglou, M. Govindan, S. C. Govind, S. K. Saha, A. J. Camm, P. M. Azcarate, S. Castano, M. Rodriguez-Manero, M. Arraiza, B. Levy, J. Barba, G. Rabago, G. Bastarrika, A. Nemes, R. Takacs, T. Varkonyi, H. Gavaller, I. Baczko, T. Forster, T. Wittmann, J. G. Papp, C. Lengyel, A. Varro, L. R. Tumasyan, K. G. Adamyan, O. Savu, T. Mieghem, P. Dekoninck, L. Gucciardo, R. Jurcut, S. Giusca, B. A. Popescu, C. Ginghina, J. Deprest, J. U. Voigt, M. Versiero, M. Galderisi, R. Esposito, A. Rapacciuolo, G. Esposito, R. Raia, T. Morgillo, F. Piscione, G. De Simone, M. A. Oraby, F. A. Maklady, E. M. Mohamed, A. Z. Eraki, D. Zaliaduonyte-Peksiene, E. Tamuleviciute, J. Janenaite, J. Marcinkeviciene, V. Mizariene, S. Bucyte, J. Vaskelyte, D. Trifunovic, I. Nedeljkovic, D. Popovic, M. Ostojic, B. Vujisic-Tesic, M. Petrovic, S. Stankovic, D. Sobic-Saranovic, M. Banovic, A. Dikic-Djordjevic, K. Savino, A. Lilli, E. Grikstaite, V. Giglio, E. Bordoni, G. Maragoni, C. Cavallini, G. Ambrosio, B. Jakovljevic, B. Beleslin, M. Nedeljkovic, O. Petrovic, S. Moral, J. Rodriguez-Palomares, M. Descalzo, G. Marti, V. Pineda, P. Mahia, L. Gutierrez, T. Gonzalez-Alujas, D. Garcia-Dorado, F. Schnell, E. Donal, C. Thebault, A. Bernard, H. Corbineau, H. Le Breton, J. Kochanowski, P. Scislo, R. Piatkowski, M. Roik, M. Marchel, D. Kosior, G. Opolski, A. M. Lesniak-Sobelga, E. Wicher-Muniak, M. Kostkiewicz, M. Olszowska, E. Suchon, P. Klimeczek, P. Banys, M. Pasowicz, W. Tracz, P. Podolec, A. Laynez, D. E. Hoefsten, B. B. Loegstrup, B. Norager, J. E. Moller, A. Flyvbjerg, K. Egstrup, W. Streb, M. Szulik, J. Nowak, E. Markowicz-Pawlus, A. Duszanska, A. Sedkowska, Z. Kalarus, T. Kukulski, L. Spinelli, C. Morisco, E. Assante Di Panzillo, F. Buono, S. Crispo, B. Trimarco, A. A. Hawary, G. M. Nasr, M. M. Fawzy, L. Faber, W. Scholtz, J. Boergermann, M. Wiemer, G. Kleikamp, N. Bogunovic, Z. Dimitriadis, J. Gummert, D. Hering, D. Horstkotte, F. Luca', S. Gelsomino, R. Lorusso, S. Caciolli, R. Carella, G. Bille', G. De Cicco, V. Pazzagli, G. F. Gensini, A. Borowiec, R. Dabrowski, J. Janas, A. Kraska, B. Firek, I. Kowalik, H. Szwed, K. A. Marcus, C. L. De Korte, T. Feuth, J. M. Thijssen, L. Kapusta, J. Dahl, L. Videbaek, M. K. Poulsen, P. A. Pellikka, K. Veien, L. I. Andersen, T. Haghfelt, M. Haberka, K. Mizia - Stec, T. Adamczyk, M. Mizia, A. Chmiel, P. Pysz, M. Sosnowski, Z. Gasior, M. Trusz - Gluza, M. Tendera, T. Niklewski, K. Wilczek, P. Chodor, T. Podolecki, A. Frycz-Kurek, M. Zembala, S. Yurdakul, O. Yildirimturk, Y. Tayyareci, K. Memic, I. C. C. Demiroglu, S. Aytekin, C. J. Garcia Alonso, E. Ferrer Sistach, L. Delgado, J. Lopez Ayerbe, N. Vallejo Camazon, F. Gual Capllonch, M. Espriu Simon, X. Ruyra, A. Caballero Parrilla, A. Bayes Genis, L. Lecuyer, A. Berrebi, E. Florens, M. Noghin, C. Huerre, P. Achouh, R. Zegdi, J. N. Fabiani, B. De Chiara, A. Moreo, F. Musca, F. De Marco, E. Lobiati, O. Belli, F. Mauri, S. Klugmann, A. Caballero, N. Vallejo, A. Gonzalez Guardia, R. Nunez Aragon, C. Bosch, E. Ferrer, M. L. Pedro Botet, F. Gual, M. Cusma-Piccione, C. Zito, G. Oreto, R. Giuffre, M. C. Todaro, C. M. Barbaro, S. Lanteri, C. Longordo, J. Salvia, A. Bensaid, R. Gallet, E. Fougeres, P. Lim, J. Nahum, J. F. Deux, P. Gueret, E. Teiger, J. L. Dubois-Rande, J. L. Monin, F. Behramoglu, Z. Colakoglu, V. Aytekin, C. Demiroglu, L. Gargani, E. Poggianti, R. Bucalo, M. Rizzo, F. Agrusta, P. Landi, R. Sicari, E. Picano, A. Sutandar, B. B. Siswanto, I. Irmalita, G. Harimurti, S. Y. Hayashi, M. M. Nascimento, B. Lindholm, B. Lind, A. Seeberger, M. A. Pachaly, M. C. Riella, A. Bjallmark, L. A. Brodin, L. Poanta, M. Porojan, D. L. Dumitrascu, I. Ikonomidis, S. Tzortzis, J. Lekakis, D. T. Kremastinos, I. Paraskevaidis, I. Andreadou, M. Nikolaou, P. Katsibri, M. Anastasiou-Nana, A. M. Maceira Gonzalez, C. Ripoll, J. Cosin-Sales, B. Igual, J. Salazar, V. Belloch, J. Cosin-Aguilar, D. J. Pennell, M. Masaki, J. N. Pulido, T. Yuasa, S. Gillespie, B. Afessa, D. R. Brown, S. V. Mankad, J. K. Oh, A. L. Gurghean, A. M. Mihailescu, I. Tudor, C. Homentcovschi, M. Muraru, I. V. Bruckner, C. E. Correia, B. Rodrigues, D. Moreira, L. F. Santos, P. Gama, O. Dionisio, C. Cabral, O. Santos, T. Bombardini, S. Gherardi, G. Arpesella, S. Valente, I. Calamai, E. Pasanisi, S. Sansoni, P. Szymanski, P. Dobrowolski, M. Lipczynska, A. Klisiewicz, P. Hoffman, D. Stepowski, B. Kurtz, G. Grezis-Soulie, A. Savoure, F. Anselme, F. Bauer, J. Castillo, N. Herszkowicz, C. Ferreira, A. Goscinska, K. Mizia-Stec, W. Poborski, O. Azevedo, I. Quelhas, J. Guardado, M. Fernandes, C. S. Miranda, P. Gaspar, A. Lourenco, R. Medeiros, J. Almeida, S. L Bennani, V. Algalarrondo, S. Dinanian, J. Guiader, C. Juin, D. Adams, M. S. Slama, J. J. Onaindia, O. Quintana, S. Velasco, E. Astigarraga, A. Cacicedo, J. Gonzalez, I. Rodriguez, M. Sadaba, M. Eneriz, E. Laraudogoitia Zaldumbide, I. Nunez-Gil, M. Luaces, J. Zamorano, J. C. Garcia Rubira, D. Vivas, B. Ibanez, P. Marcos Alberca, C. Fernandez Golfin, J. Alonso, C. Macaya, J. Silva Marques, A. G. Almeida, V. Carvalho, C. Jorge, D. Silva, M. Gato Varela, S. Martins, D. Brito, M. G. Lopes, E. Tripodi, B. Miserrafiti, V. Montemurro, R. Scali, P. Tripodi, A. Winkler, A. Madej, I. Hausmanowa-Petrusewicz, M. Fijalkowski, A. Koprowski, M. Jaguszewski, R. Galaska, M. Taszner, A. Rynkiewicz, R. Citro, F. Rigo, G. Provenza, Q. Ciampi, M. M. Patella, A. D'andrea, O. Vriz, C. Astarita, E. Bossone, F. Heggemann, T. H. Walter, T. H. Kaelsch, T. Sueselbeck, T. H. Papavassiliu, M. Borggrefe, D. Haghi, T. Monk-Hansen, C. Have Dall, S. Bisgaard Christensen, M. Snoer, F. Gustafsson, H. Rasmusen, E. Prescott, G. Finocchiaro, B. Pinamonti, M. Merlo, G. Barbati, A. Di Lenarda, R. Bussani, G. Sinagra, T. Butz, C. N. Lang, A. Meissner, G. Plehn, H. Yeni, C. Langer, H. J. Trappe, X. Gu, X. Y. Gu, Y. H. He, Z. A. Li, J. C. Han, J. Chen, P. Gaudron, M. Niemann, S. Herrmann, K. Hu, B. Bijnens, H. Hillenbrand, M. Beer, G. Ertl, F. Weidemann, A. Mazzone, M. Mariani, I. Foffa, A. Vianello, S. Del Ry, S. Bevilacqua, M. G. Andreassi, M. Glauber, S. Berti, M. Grabowski, M. Postula, A. Dragulescu, G. Van Arsdell, O. Al-Radi, C. Caldarone, L. Mertens, K. J. Lee, R. P. Casula, H. Yadav, A. Cherian, A. D. Hughes, A. Vitarelli, S. D'orazio, B. L. Nguyen, G. Iorio, D. Battaglia, F. Caranci, V. Padella, L. Capotosto, L. Alessandroni, F. Barilla, C. Cardin, S. Hascoet, M. Saudron, G. Caudron, B. Arnaudis, P. Acar, M. M. Sun, X. H. Shu, C. Z. Pan, X. Y. Fang, D. H. Kong, F. Fang, Q. Zhang, Y. S. Chan, J. M. Xie, W. K. Yip, Y. Y. Lam, J. E. Sanderson, C. M. Yu, M. Rosca, K. O' Connor, G. Romano, J. Magne, A. Calin, D. Muraru, L. Pierard, P. Lancellotti, A. Roushdy, I. Elfiky, G. El Shahid, A. Elfiky, M. El Sayed, K. Wierzbowska-Drabik, L. Chrzanowski, A. Kapusta, E. Plonska-Goscinak, M. Krzeminska-Pakula, M. Kurpesa, T. Rechcinski, E. Trzos, J. D. Kasprzak, M. K. Ersboll, N. Valeur, U. M. Mogensen, M. Andersen, C. Hassager, P. Sogaard, L. V. Kober, M. Kloeckner, D. Hayat, C. Dussault, N. Lellouche, N. Elbaz, A. Demopoulos, G. Hatzigeorgiou, E. Leontiades, A. Motsi, G. Karatasakis, G. Athanassopoulos, P. Zycinski, J. Kasprzak, M. C. Vazquez Alvarez, C. Medrano Lopez, M. Camino Lopez, S. Granja, J. L. Zunzunegui Martinez, E. Maroto Alvaro, W.-C. Tsai, J.-Y. Chen, Y.-W. Liu, C.-C. Lin, L.-M. Tsai, D. C. Gomes, S. Robalo Martins, M. R. Gois, S. Ribeiro, A. Nunes Diogo, P. Sengupta, G. Di Bella, G. Caracciolo, S. Lentini, E. Kinova, N. Zlatareva, A. Goudev, N. Papagiannis, M. Mpouki, A. Papagianni, M. Vorria, G. Mpenetos, D. Lytra, E. Papadopoulou, P. Sgourakis, J. Malakos, J. Kyriazis, V. Kodali, R. Toole, A. S. Gopal, J. Celutkiene, A. Rudys, V. Grabauskiene, S. Glaveckaite, E. Sadauskiene, Z. Lileikiene, N. Bickauskaite, E. Ciburiene, V. Skorniakov, A. Laucevicius, C. H. Attenhofer Jost, M. Pfyffer, R. Lindquist, J. L. F. Santos, O. R. C. Coelho, C. M. Mady, M. H. P. Picard, V. M. C. Salemi, L. Funk, M. W. Prull, J.-Y. Shih, Y.-Y. Huang, K. O'connor, M. Moonen, L. A. Pierard, D. C. Cozma, C. Mornos, A. Ionac, L. Petrescu, D. Dragulescu, R. Dan, I. Popescu, S. I. Dragulescu, T. G. Von Lueder, A. Hodt, G. F. Gjerdalen, T. E. Andersen, E. E. Solberg, K. Steine, T. Van Mieghem, M. Rostek, W. Pikto-Pietkiewicz, M. Dluzniewski, A. Antoniewicz, S. Poletajew, A. Borowka, T. Pasierski, S. K. Malyutina, M. Ryabikov, J. Ragino, A. Ryabikov, S. Sitia, L. Tomasoni, F. Atzeni, L. Gianturco, P. Sarzi-Puttini, V. De Gennaro Colonna, M. Turiel, F. R. Gutierrez, G. Lefhtheriotis, R. T. Hurst, M. R. Nelson, F. Mookadam, V. Thota, U. Emani, M. Al Harthi, J. Stepanek, S. Cha, S. J. Lester, E. M. M. Ho, L. Hemeryck, M. Hall, K. Scott, K. Bennett, A. Mahmud, C. Daly, G. King, R. T. Murphy, A. S. Brown, A. J. Teske, J. D'Hooge, P. Claus, F. Rademakers, L. Santos, N. Cortez-Dias, S. Goncalves, M. Almeida Ribeiro, A. Bordalo E Sa, C. Magnino, P. Marcos-Alberca, A. Milan, C. Almeria, V. Caniadas, J. L. Rodrigo, L. Perez De Isla, J. L. Zamorano, U. Gustafsson, M. Larsson, P. Lindqvist, L. Brodin, A. Waldenstrom, B. Roosens, S. Hernot, S. Droogmans, G. Van Camp, T. Lahoutte, B. Cosyns, C. M. Rao, D. Aguglia, G. Casciola, C. Imbesi, A. Marvelli, M. Sgro, D. Benedetto, R. Tripepi, C. Zoccali, F. A. Benedetto, L. P. Badano, M. Cardillo, L. Del Mestre, P. Gianfagna, A. Proclemer, H. D. Tschernich, B. Mora, E. Base, U. Weber, J. Dumfarth, C. Mukherjee, H. S. Skaltsiotis, A. K. Kaladaridis, D. B. Bramos, G. K. Kottis, A. A. Antoniou, I. A. Agrios, D. T. Takos, N. V. Vasiladiotis, K. P. Pamboucas, S. T. T. Toumanidis, A. Shim, P. Lipec, B. Michalski, B. Wozniakowski, L. Stefanczyk, A. Rotkiewicz, M. Cameli, M. Lisi, M. Padeletti, E. Bigio, S. Bernazzali, C. Tsoulpas, M. Maccherini, M. Henein, S. Mondillo, I. Garcia Lunar, S. Mingo Santos, V. Monivas Palomero, C. Mitroi, P. Beltran Correas, L. Ruiz Bautista, A. Muniz Lozano, M. Gonzalez Gonzalez, B. Stegemann, K. Willson, R. Zeppellini, A. Iavernaro, M. Zadro, M. Carasi, R. De Domenico, T. Rigo, E. Artuso, G. Erente, A. Ramondo, T. T. Le, F. Q. Huang, Y. Gu, and R. S. Tan

Subjects
Cardiac function curve, medicine.medical_specialty, medicine.anatomical_structure, business.industry, Ventricle, Internal medicine, medicine, Cardiology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging, General Medicine, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Rotation, business
Published
2010

90. The unravelling of primary myocardial impairment in Marfan syndrome by modern echocardiography

Author

Anatoli Kiotsekoglou, George R. Sutherland, A. J Camm, Anne H. Child, James C. Moggridge, and D. K. Nassiri

Subjects
Adult, Marfan syndrome, medicine.medical_specialty, Systemic disease, Adolescent, Ventricular Dysfunction, Right, Aortic root, Marfan Syndrome, Biventricular function, Ventricular Dysfunction, Left, Internal medicine, medicine, Humans, Child, business.industry, Arrhythmias, Cardiac, medicine.disease, Myocardial function, Connective tissue disease, Surgery, Ultrasound techniques, Echocardiography, Circulatory system, Cardiology, Cardiomyopathies, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, business
Abstract

Use of echocardiography has dramatically changed the way in which patients with Marfan syndrome are diagnosed, monitored and treated. Owing to the lethal nature of aortic complications, priority has been given to the assessment of the aortic root. Echocardiographic studies on patients with Marfan syndrome have also provided data supporting primary myocardial involvement, although this evidence has remained controversial for several years. Use of more sensitive ultrasound techniques has demonstrated mild myocardial impairment in these patients. Biventricular function assessment should be added to the aortic root evaluation, so that appropriate treatment may be offered to support myocardial function.

Published
2009

92. Poster session 2: Thursday 4 December 2014, 08:30-12:30Location: Poster area

Author

Domingos, J, Augustine, D, Leeson, P, Noble, J, Doan, HL, Boubrit, L, Cheikh-Khalifa, R, Laveau, F, Djebbar, M, Pousset, F, Isnard, R, Hammoudi, N, Lisi, M, Cameli, M, Di Tommaso, C, Curci, V, Reccia, R, Maccherini, M, Henein, MY, Mondillo, S, Leitman, M, Vered, Z, Rashid, H, Yalcin, MU, Gurses, KM, Kocyigit, D, Evranos, B, Yorgun, H, Sahiner, L, Kaya, B, Aytemir, K, Ozer, N, Bertella, E, Petulla', M, Baggiano, A, Mushtaq, S, Russo, E, Gripari, P, Innocenti, E, Andreini, D, Tondo, C, Pontone, G, Necas, J, Kovalova, S, Hristova, K, Shiue, I, Bogdanva, V, Teixido Tura, G, Sanchez, V, Rodriguez-Palomares, J, Gutierrez, L, Gonzalez-Alujas, T, Garcia-Dorado, D, Forteza, A, Evangelista, A, Timoteo, AT, Aguiar Rosa, S, Cruz Ferreira, R, Campbell, R, Carrick, D, Mccombe, C, Tzemos, N, Berry, C, Sonecki, P, Noda, M, Setoguchi, M, Ikenouchi, T, Nakamura, T, Yamamoto, Y, Murakami, T, Katou, Y, Usui, M, Ichikawa, K, Isobe, M, Kwon, B, Roh, J, Kim, H, Ihm, S, Barron, AJ, Francis, D, Mayet, J, Wensel, R, Kosiuk, J, Dinov, B, Bollmann, A, Hindricks, G, Breithardt, O, Rio, P, Moura Branco, L, Galrinho, A, Cacela, D, Pinto Teixeira, P, Afonso Nogueira, M, Pereira-Da-Silva, T, Abreu, J, Teresa Timoteo, A, Pavlyukova, E, Tereshenkova, E, Karpov, R, Piatkowski, R, Kochanowski, J, Opolski, G, Barbier, P, Mirea, O, Guglielmo, M, Savioli, G, Cefalu, C, Pudil, R, Horakova, L, Rozloznik, M, Balestra, C, Rimbas, R, Enescu, O, Calin, S, Vinereanu, D, Karsenty, C, Hascoet, S, Hadeed, K, Semet, F, Dulac, Y, Alacoque, X, Leobon, B, Acar, P, Dharma, S, Sukmawan, R, Soesanto, A, Vebiona, K, Firdaus, I, Danny, S, Driessen, MM, Sieswerda, G, Post, M, Snijder, R, Van Dijk, A, Leiner, T, Meijboom, F, Chrysohoou, C, Tsitsinakis, G, Tsiachris, D, Aggelis, A, Herouvim, E, Vogiatzis, I, Pitsavos, C, Koulouris, G, Stefanadis, C, Erdei, T, Edwards, J, Braim, D, Yousef, Z, Fraser, A, Avenatti, E, Magnino, C, Omede', P, Presutti, D, Moretti, C, Iannaccone, A, Ravera, A, Gaita, F, Milan, A, Veglio, F, Scali, M, Simioniuc, A, Fusini, L, Dini, F, Okura, H, Murata, E, Kataoka, T, Mikaelpoor, A, Ojaghi Haghighi, S, Alizadeasl, A, Sharifi-Zarchi, A, Zaroui, A, Ben Halima, M, Mourali, M, Mechmeche, R, Rodriguez Palomares, JF, Maldonado, G, Garcia, G, Otaegui, I, Garcia Del Blanco, B, Teixido, G, Gonzalez Alujas, M, Garcia Dorado, D, Godinho, AR, Correia, A, Rangel, I, Rocha, A, Rodrigues, J, Araujo, V, Almeida, P, Macedo, F, Maciel, M, Rekik, B, Mghaieth, F, Aloui, H, Boudiche, S, Jomaa, M, Ayari, J, Tabebi, N, Farhati, A, Mourali, S, Dekleva, M, Markovic-Nikolic, N, Zivkovic, M, Stankovic, A, Boljevic, D, Korac, N, Beleslin, B, Arandjelovic, A, Ostojic, M, Galli, E, Guirette, Y, Auffret, V, Daudin, M, Fournet, M, Mabo, P, Donal, E, Chin, CW, Luo, E, Hwan, J, White, A, Newby, D, Dweck, M, Carstensen, HG, Larsen, LH, Hassager, C, Kofoed, KF, Jensen, JS, Mogelvang, R, Kowalczyk, M, Debska, M, Kolesnik, A, Dangel, J, Kawalec, W, Migliore, R, Adaniya, M, Barranco, M, Miramont, G, Gonzalez, S, Tamagusuku, H, Davidsen, ES, Kuiper, KK, Matre, K, Gerdts, E, Igual Munoz, B, Maceira Gonzalez, A, Erdociain Perales, M, Estornell Erill, J, Valera Martinez, F, Miro Palau, V, Piquer Gil, M, Sepulveda Sanchez, P, Cervera Zamora, A, Montero Argudo, A, Placido, R, Silva Marques, J, Magalhaes, A, Guimaraes, T, Nobre E Menezes, M, Goncalves, S, Ramalho, A, Robalo Martins, S, Almeida, A, Nunes Diogo, A, Abid, L, Ben Kahla, S, Charfeddine, S, Abid, D, Kammoun, S, Tounsi, A, Hammami, R, Triki, F, Akrout, M, Mallek, S, Hentati, M, Sirbu, CF, Berrebi, A, Huber, A, Folliguet, T, Yang, LT, Shih, J, Liu, Y, Li, Y, Tsai, L, Luo, C, Tsai, W, Babukov, R, Bartosh, F, Bazilev, V, Muraru, D, Cavalli, G, Addetia, K, Miglioranza, M, Veronesi, F, Mihaila, S, Tadic, M, Cucchini, U, Badano, L, Lang, R, Miyazaki, S, Slavich, M, Miyazaki, T, Figini, F, Lativ, A, Chieffo, A, Montrfano, M, Alfieri, O, Colombo, A, Agricola, E, Liu, D, Hu, K, Herrmann, S, Stoerk, S, Kramer, B, Ertl, G, Bijnens, B, Weidemann, F, Brand, M, Butz, T, Tzikas, S, Van Bracht, M, Roeing, J, Wennemann, R, Christ, M, Grett, M, Trappe, HJ, Scherzer, S, Geroldinger, A, Krenn, L, Roth, C, Gangl, C, Maurer, G, Rosenhek, R, Neunteufl, T, Binder, T, Bergler-Klein, J, Martins, E, Pinho, T, Leite, S, Azevedo, O, Belo, A, Campelo, M, Amorim, S, Rocha-Goncalves, F, Goncalves, L, Silva-Cardoso, J, Ahn, H, Kim, K, Jeon, H, Youn, H, Haland, T, Saberniak, J, Leren, I, Edvardsen, T, Haugaa, K, Ziolkowska, L, Boruc, A, Turska-Kmiec, A, Zubrzycka, M, Monivas Palomero, V, Mingo Santos, S, Goirigolzarri Artaza, J, Rodriguez Gonzalez, E, Rivero Arribas, B, Castro Urda, V, Dominguez Rodriguez, F, Mitroi, C, Gracia Lunar, I, Fernadez Lozano, I, Palecek, T, Masek, M, Kuchynka, P, Fikrle, M, Spicka, I, Rysava, R, Linhart, A, Hasselberg, N, Borgquist, R, Platonov, P, Ancona, R, Comenale Pinto, S, Caso, P, Coopola, M, Arenga, F, Rapisarda, O, D'onofrio, A, Sellitto, V, Calabro, R, Rosca, M, Popescu, B, Calin, A, Mateescu, A, Beladan, C, Jalba, M, Rusu, E, Zilisteanu, D, Ginghina, C, Pressman, G, Cepeda-Valery, B, Romero-Corral, A, Moldovan, R, Saenz, A, Orban, M, Samuel, S, Fijalkowski, M, Fijalkowska, M, Gilis-Siek, N, Blaut, K, Galaska, R, Sworczak, K, Gruchala, M, Nowak, R, Ikonomidis, I, Triantafyllidi, H, Trivilou, P, Tzortzis, S, Papadopoulos, C, Pavlidis, G, Paraskevaidis, I, Lekakis, J, Padiyath, A, Li, L, Xiao, Y, Danford, D, Kutty, S, Kaymaz, C, Aktemur, T, Poci, N, Ozturk, S, Akbal, O, Yilmaz, F, Tokgoz Demircan, H, Kirca, N, Tanboga, I, Ozdemir, N, Greiner, S, Jud, A, Aurich, M, Hess, A, Hilbel, T, Hardt, S, Katus, H, D'ascenzi, F, Alvino, F, Focardi, M, Solari, M, Bonifazi, M, Konopka, M, Krol, W, Klusiewicz, A, Burkhard, K, Chwalbinska, J, Pokrywka, A, Dluzniewski, M, Braksator, W, King, GJ, Coen, K, Gannon, S, Fahy, N, Kindler, H, Clarke, J, Iliuta, L, Rac-Albu, M, Cortez-Dias, N, Francisco, A, Silva, G, Kyu, K, Kong, W, Songco, G, Galupo, M, Castro, M, Shin Hnin, W, Ronald Lee, C, Poh, K, Milazzo, V, Di Stefano, C, Tosello, F, Leone, D, Sabia, L, Sobrero, G, Maule, S, Jamiel, AM, Ahmed, AM, Farah, I, Al-Mallah, MH, Petroni, R, Magnano, R, Bencivenga, S, Di Mauro, M, Petroni, S, Altorio, S, Romano, S, Penco, M, Kumor, M, Lipczynska, M, Klisiewicz, A, Wojcik, A, Konka, M, Kozuch, K, Szymanski, P, Hoffman, P, Rimbas, M, Reynaud, A, Lund, L, Persson, H, Hage, C, Oger, E, Linde, C, Daubert, J, Maria Oliveira Lima, M, Costa, H, Gomes Da Silva, M, Noman Alencar, M, Carmo Pereira Nunes, M, Costa Rocha, M, Siala, A, Ozawa, K, Funabashi, N, Takaoka, H, Kobayashi, Y, Matsumura, Y, Wada, M, Hirakawa, D, Yasuoka, Y, Morimoto, N, Takeuchi, H, Kitaoka, H, Sugiura, T, Lakkas, L, Naka, K, Ntounousi, E, Gkirdis, I, Koutlas, V, Bechlioulis, A, Pappas, K, Katsouras, C, Siamopoulos, K, Michalis, L, Evangelou, D, Kalaitzidis, R, Tzeltzes, G, Nakas, G, Generati, G, Bandera, F, Pellegrino, M, Labate, V, Alfonzetti, E, Guazzi, M, Zagatina, A, Zhuravskaya, N, Al-Mallah, M, Alsaileek, A, Qureshi, W, Peyre, M, Amadieu, R, Yamanaka, Y, Sotomi, Y, Iwakura, K, Inoue, K, Toyoshima, Y, Tanaka, K, Oka, T, Tanaka, N, Orihara, Y, Fujii, K, Soulat-Dufour, L, Lang, S, Boyer-Chatenet, L, Van Der Vynckt, C, Ederhy, S, Adavane, S, Haddour, N, Boccara, F, Cohen, A, Huitema, M, Boerman, S, Vorselaars, V, Grutters, J, Gopal, AS, Saha, S, Toole, R, Kiotsekoglou, A, Cao, J, Reichek, N, Meyer, CG, Altiok, E, Al Ateah, G, Lehrke, M, Becker, M, Lotfi, S, Autschbach, R, Marx, N, Hoffmann, R, Frick, M, Nemes, A, Sepp, R, Kalapos, A, Domsik, P, Forster, T, Caro Codon, J, Blazquez Bermejo, Z, Lopez Fernandez, T, Valbuena Lopez, SC, Iniesta Manjavacas, AM, De Torres Alba, F, Dominguez Melcon, F, Pena Conde, L, Moreno Yanguela, M, Lopez-Sendon, JL, Lengyel, C, Orosz, A, Varkonyi, T, Rendon, J, Saldarriaga, CI, Duarte, N, Foldeak, D, Borbenyi, Z, Hamdy, A, Fereig, H, Nabih, M, Abdel-Aziz, A, Ali, A, Broyd, C, Wielandts, JY, De Buck, S, Michielsen, K, Louw, R, Garweg, C, Nuyts, J, Ector, J, Maes, F, Heidbuchel, H, Gillis, K, Bala, G, Tierens, S, Cosyns, B, Maurovich-Horvat, P, Horvath, T, Jermendy, A, Celeng, C, Panajotu, A, Bartykowszki, A, Karolyi, M, Tarnoki, A, Jermendy, G, and Merkely, B

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medicine.medical_specialty, biology, Early Repolarization Pattern, business.industry, Athletes, Physical therapy, medicine, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging, General Medicine, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, business, biology.organism_classification
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2014

93. Biatrial and right ventricular deformation imaging: Implications of the recent EACVI consensus document in the clinics and beyond.

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Saha, Samir K., Kiotsekoglou, Anatoli, Gopal, Aasha S, and Lindqvist, Per

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*ALGORITHMS, *CARDIOLOGY, *COMPUTER software, *CONSENSUS (Social sciences), *ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, *RIGHT heart ventricle, *HEMODYNAMICS, *MEDICAL practice, *LEFT heart atrium, *RIGHT heart atrium
Abstract

In this review, right ventricular (RV), right atrial (RA), and left atrial (LA) strain in some selected clinical situations has been discussed in light of the current literature. To exemplify the significance of the use of multichamber strain, we have provided some illustrations of common cardiac problems. The recently published European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) consensus document for standardization of RV, RA, and LA strain, using the currently available software, has fulfilled the aspirations of investigators world over who have been studying atrial strain using a bailed‐out algorithm designed principally to quantify left ventricular deformation. The purpose of this review was to reiterate the value of the application of RV and biatrial strain imaging in research and day‐to‐day clinical practice, using the 2‐dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography (2D‐STE). Also, we present a short report on how RA strain may remain coupled to pulmonary hemodynamics. Besides, we have highlighted the technical challenges of atrial strain quantification. We have not used the nomenclature of chamber deformation proposed by the EACVI document as the publications cited in this review have used different sets of nomenclature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2019
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94. Natural history and familial characteristics of isolated left ventricular non-compaction

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Ross T, Murphy, Rajesh, Thaman, Juan Gimeno, Blanes, Deirdre, Ward, Elias, Sevdalis, Efi, Papra, Anatoli, Kiotsekoglou, Anatoli, Kiotsekolglou, Maria T, Tome, Denis, Pellerin, William J, McKenna, and Perry M, Elliott

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Adult, Cardiomyopathy, Dilated, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Noncompaction cardiomyopathy, Adolescent, Cardiomyopathy, Ventricular tachycardia, Asymptomatic, Cohort Studies, Ventricular Dysfunction, Left, Risk Factors, Internal medicine, Humans, Medicine, Genetic Testing, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, business.industry, Dilated cardiomyopathy, Middle Aged, Prognosis, medicine.disease, Left ventricular noncompaction cardiomyopathy, Pedigree, Transplantation, Echocardiography, Exercise Test, Cardiology, Left ventricular noncompaction, Female, Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular, medicine.symptom, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, business, Echocardiography, Transesophageal
Abstract

Aims Non-compaction of the left ventricle (LVNC) is a disorder of endomyocardial morphogenesis that results in multiple trabeculations in the left ventricular myocardium. The current literature suggests that LVNC in adults is rare and associated with a poor prognosis. Given that the disorder is present at birth and that several studies have reported asymptomatic familial disease in some patients, we hypothesized that there is a long pre-clinical phase of the disease. The aim of this study was to define the prognosis and familial incidence of LVNC. Methods and results This study cohort comprised 45 patients (mean age at diagnosis 37 years) consecutively identified at a referral centre for cardiomyopathy over a 10-year period. Twenty-eight patients (62%) had dyspnoea at presentation; 41 (91%) an abnormal ECG; and 30 (66%) left ventricular dilatation and impaired systolic function. Nine patients (20%) had non-sustained ventricular tachycardia on 24 h Holter monitoring. Mean survival from death or transplantation was 97% at 46 months. There were three thromboembolic events in two patients (4%). On systematic family screening, 8 of 32 (25%) asymptomatic relatives had a range of echocardiographic abnormalities, including LVNC, LVNC with impaired systolic function, and left ventricular enlargement without LVNC. Conclusion This study demonstrates that LVNC is associated with a better prognosis than previously reported. In patients with familial disease, relatives may have features consistent with dilated cardiomyopathy rather than LVNC.

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2004

95. Abstract 11776: Relative Merits of Ejection Fraction and Strain by 2D Echo, 3D Echo and Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Image-Based Recognition of Heart Failure

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Samir K Saha, Rena S Toole, Anatoli Kiotsekoglou, Jie J Cao, Nathaniel Reichek, and Aasha Gopal

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Physiology (medical), Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Abstract

Introduction: Echo and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) are often used in evaluation of patients with heart failure (HF) whether associated with systolic dysfunction or preserved ejection fraction (EF). We evaluated the relative merits of EF (by CMR and 2D echo) versus echo strain (by 2D and 3D speckle tracking echo STE) for imaged-based recognition of patients with HF. Methods: 117 subjects (81 normals and 36 HF) were evaluated. There were no significant differences in age or gender between normals (59+/-14 yrs, 39 M) and HF (54+/-14 yrs, 29 M). 2D biplane echo and CMR provided EF while 2D and 3DSTE yielded global longitudinal (GLS %) and circumferential (GCS%) strains. Since 3DSTE was optimized for strain rather than EF, 3DEF was not evaluated. HF diagnosis was based on dyspnea, plasma N-terminal pro-B type brain natriuretic peptide and EF. Results: As expected, mean EF and strains differed between normals and HF (table). Using a backward elimination regression model, only 2DEF, CMREF, 2DGCS% and 3DGLS% were retained for further analysis. ROC-guided criterion values (for HF recognition) for 2DEF, CMREF, 2DGCS% and 3DGLS% were >52%, >50%, >-22% and >-16%, respectively. Using these values, the sensitivity, specificity, and odd-ratios for HF recognition with each parameter were computed (table). Conclusions: CMREF provided the highest sensitivity and specificity for HF recognition. The most sensitive echo measure was 3DGLS% while the most specific echo measure was 2DEF. However, in a mixed population of normals and HF, whether associated with systolic dysfunction or preserved EF, 2DGCS% and 3DGLS% had the highest odds ratios.

Published
2014

96. Role of N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: experience from a tertiary centre in India

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Aasha S. Gopal, Lars-Åke Brodin, S. S. Ramesh, Satish C. Govind, Varuna K. Gadiyaram, Samir K. Saha, and Anatoli Kiotsekoglou

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Male, medicine.medical_specialty, medicine.drug_class, Myocardial Infarction, Infarction, India, Comorbidity, Chest pain, Electrocardiography, Sex Factors, Predictive Value of Tests, Internal medicine, Natriuretic Peptide, Brain, Natriuretic peptide, medicine, Humans, cardiovascular diseases, Myocardial infarction, Aged, Ejection fraction, biology, business.industry, Area under the curve, Age Factors, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Prognosis, Troponin, Peptide Fragments, Surgery, C-Reactive Protein, Echocardiography, Cardiology, biology.protein, Female, Myocardial infarction diagnosis, medicine.symptom, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, business, hormones, hormone substitutes, and hormone antagonists, Biomarkers
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BACKGROUND: Role of biomarkers in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is paramount, as they aid in diagnosis and gauge prognosis of the disease. In this project, we sought to study the short-term outcome and clinical associates of N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) in the setting of STEMI at a tertiary center in India. METHODS: In all, 173 STEMI patients (mean age: 57 ± 12 years, 38 women) had their NT-proBNP assayed in addition to troponins and high-sensitive C-reactive protein. Subjects were divided according to NT-proBNP levels into 2 groups: group 1 (NT-proBNP ≤100 pg/mL) and group 2 (NT-proBNP >100 pg/mL). RESULTS: NT-proBNP values (pg/mL) were elevated in group 2 (group 1: 61.7 ± 6.2; group 2: 1006.5 ± 990.6, P < 0.0001). Significantly greater number of females had elevated NT-proBNP (P < 0.05) that could be predicted by the duration of chest pain related to STEMI (area under the curve: 0.72), and age at presentation (area under the curve: 0.66). Multiple regression analysis showed a strong inverse association between NT-proBNP and left ventricular ejection fraction and a strong positive association between the peptide and high-sensitive C-reactive protein. A significant positive association was also noted between NT-proBNP and troponin I (all P < 0.05, Global R = 0.47). Diabetes mellitus and/or hypertension, and infarction localization showed no effect on NT-proBNP levels along with death, primary coronary intervention-related bleeding, and arrhythmias, (χ, P = ns). CONCLUSIONS: The data suggest that women are more likely to have increased NT-proBNP while presenting with STEMI. Duration of chest pain and age at presentation are the best predictors of elevated NT-proBNP, though without much bearing on short-term morbidity and mortality.

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2011

97. Impaired biventricular deformation in Marfan syndrome: a strain and strain rate study in adult unoperated patients

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Anatoli, Kiotsekoglou, Samir, Saha, James C, Moggridge, Venediktos, Kapetanakis, Malini, Govindan, Francisco, Alpendurada, Michael J, Mullen, Dariush K, Nassiri, John, Camm, George R, Sutherland, Bart H, Bijnens, and Anne, Child

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Adult, Male, Systole, Reproducibility of Results, Echocardiography, Doppler, Marfan Syndrome, Electrocardiography, Ventricular Dysfunction, Left, ROC Curve, Diastole, Echocardiography, Case-Control Studies, Humans, Female
Abstract

To investigate the presence of any regional myocardial deformation abnormalities in Marfan syndrome (MFS) and determine the benefits of using advanced echocardiography compared to conventional techniques.Myocardial dysfunction in MFS may be caused by extracellular matrix remodeling thus, resulting in uniform reduced functionality. However, increased aortic stiffness may cause segmental ventricular abnormalities. Strain rate imaging (SRI) constitutes a validated technique to assess regional deformation in various clinical conditions. With this in mind, we aimed to investigate biventricular function in MFS using SRI.Forty-four MFS patients (mean age 30 ± 12 years, 26 men) and 49 controls without valvular disease were examined using SRI. Ejection fraction (EF) was calculated by the Simpson's biplane method. Biventricular deformation was assessed by measuring strain/strain rate. Strain values were divided by left ventricular (LV) end-diastolic volume to adjust LV deformation for geometry changes providing a strain index (SI). Aortic stiffness was evaluated using the β-stiffness index.EF (%) was reduced in MFS patients (59 ± 5 vs 72 ± 4, P0.001), whereas β-stiffness was increased (P0.001). LV radial and LV and right ventricular (RV) long-axis strain values (%) were reduced in the patient group (70 ± 17 vs 93 ± 10; 19 ± 2 vs 25 ± 2; 30 ± 9 vs 36 ± 8, respectively, P0.001). Strain rate measurements were also reduced (P0.001). In a multiple regression analysis, MFS diagnosis was negatively associated with LV SI (-0.262 [-0.306, -0.219], P0.001). β-Stiffness was negatively associated with SI obtained from the septum, inferior and anterior walls. ROC analyses demonstrated that SRI, when compared with conventional echocardiography, had higher sensitivity and specificity in predicting biventricular dysfunction in MFS.Our study showed a uniform reduction in biventricular deformation in MFS. These findings suggest that assessment of myocardial function using advanced echocardiographic techniques could be more accurate in MFS patient evaluation than conventional echocardiography alone.

Published
2011

98. Assessment of aortic stiffness in marfan syndrome using two-dimensional and Doppler echocardiography

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Anatoli, Kiotsekoglou, James C, Moggridge, Samir K, Saha, Venediktos, Kapetanakis, Malini, Govindan, Francisco, Alpendurada, Michael J, Mullen, John, Camm, George R, Sutherland, Bart H, Bijnens, and Anne H, Child

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Adult, Male, Observer Variation, Young Adult, Adolescent, Case-Control Studies, Age Factors, Humans, Female, Middle Aged, Aorta, Echocardiography, Doppler, Marfan Syndrome
Abstract

Extracellular matrix remodeling in the aortic wall results in increased aortic stiffness (AoS) in Marfan syndrome (MFS). Pulsed-wave velocity (PWV) constitutes the best indirect AoS measurement. We aimed to assess PWV in MFS patients using two-dimensional (2D) and Doppler echocardiography.Thirty-one MFS patients, (mean age 31 ± 14 years, 16 men) and 31 controls were examined. Blood flow was recorded in the aorta near the aortic valve and immediately after in the descending aorta with simultaneous electrocardiography. PWV was calculated by dividing the distance between the two sample volume positions (D) by the time difference (TD) between the intervals from the QRS start to the ascending and descending aortic flow onsets. B-stiffness was also measured.TD (described in "Methods" section) and, aortic arch length were significantly increased in MFS patients, P0.001. Thus, PWV values were significantly higher in patients when compared with controls, 7.20 m/s (5.12, 9.43) versus 4.64 m/s (3.37, 6.24), P0.001. B-stiffness was also significantly increased in MFS patients; 5.15 (3.69, 7.65) versus 2.44 (1.82, 3.66), P0.001. Multiple regression analysis showed a positive association with MFS diagnosis and age, (P = 0.002 and 0.009, respectively). Reproducibility of PWV measurements was5%.AoS was significantly higher in MFS patients as expected. Our data demonstrated that PWV measurements can be performed, in the absence of serious musculoskeletal abnormalities in MFS adults, as part of a cardiac ultrasound scan. This technique can be helpful in diagnosis and management in MFS.

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2011

99. Effect of aortic stiffness on left ventricular long-axis systolic function in adults with Marfan syndrome

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Anatoli, Kiotsekoglou, Samir K, Saha, James C, Moggridge, Venedictos, Kapetanakis, Bart H, Bijnens, Michael J, Mullen, John, Camm, George R, Sutherland, Ian B, Wilkinson, and Anne H, Child

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Adult, Male, Manometry, Systole, Elasticity Imaging Techniques, Humans, Female, Aorta, Blood Flow Velocity, Elasticity, Ventricular Function, Left, Marfan Syndrome
Abstract

several studies have documented increased aortic stiffness in patients with Marfan syndrome (MFS) using echocardiography and magnetic resonance imaging. Recent studies have also shown primary myocardial impairment in MFS. We investigated whether left ventricular (LV) function could be further impaired when acting against a stiff vascular system.twenty-six MFS patients (mean age 30 ± 2 years, 17 males) and 30 normal controls were examined. Mitral annular displacement, as a surrogate for LV systolic function, was evaluated from septal, anterolateral, anterior and inferior regions using M-mode and tissue Doppler imaging. Septal/anterolateral and anterior/inferior M-mode displacement measurements were normalised by dividing them by the longitudinal inner distance obtained at end diastole from the 4- and 2-chamber views, respectively. Carotid-femoral and carotid-radial (CF and CR) pulse wave velocities (PWV) were determined using an automated applanation tonometry device. Central aortic pressure was assessed by recording radial waveforms with the tonometer and central waveforms were reconstructed using a generalised transfer function.CF- and CR-PWV were significantly increased in the patient group (p0.001), whilst mitral annular displacement measurements were significantly reduced (p0.001, all regions). Regression analysis demonstrated that the disease status and CF-PWV were strongly associated with reduced LV systolic function (p0.001, p=0.002, respectively).our study showed reduced LV systolic function and increased aortic stiffness in MFS patients. The efficiency of a fibrillin-1 deficient heart may be further reduced by ejection into a stiff vascular system. Care should be taken to ensure that any treatment regime addresses both increased aortic stiffness and myocardial dysfunction in MFS.

Published
2010

100. Utility of high and standard right precordial leads during ajmaline testing for the diagnosis of Brugada syndrome

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Elijah R. Behr, Velislav N. Batchvarov, Hariharan Raju, Anatoli Kiotsekoglou, Mukhtar Bizrah, R Bastiaenen, Nesan Shanmugam, John Camm, and Malini Govindan

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Adult, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Heart disease, Precordial examination, Electrocardiography, Internal medicine, medicine, Humans, In patient, Third intercostal space, Brugada syndrome, Brugada Syndrome, Ajmaline, business.industry, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Surgery, Brugada ECG Pattern, Case-Control Studies, Cardiology, Female, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Fourth intercostal space, business, Anti-Arrhythmia Agents, medicine.drug
Abstract

Aims The authors sought to assess the value of the high right precordial leads (RPL) to detect the Type I Brugada ECG pattern in patients suspected of carrying Brugada syndrome (BrS). Methods Ajmaline testing using 15-lead ECGs was performed in 183 patients suspected of carrying BrS. Standard 12-lead ECG with V1–V3 recorded from the fourth intercostal space and an additional three leads placed over V1–V3 recorded from the third intercostal space were analysed. ECGs were analysed for a Type I ECG pattern in either the standard or high RPLs. Results Of the 183 tests, 31 (17%) were positive, and 152 were negative. In all positive studies, at least one high RPL became positive. In 13/31 (42%) cases, the Type I ECG pattern could be observed only in the high RPLs. Standard or high V3 were never positive before standard or high V1–V2. In seven patients, a Type I pattern was seen in one standard and one high RPL (vertical relationship). Conclusions The high RPLs are more sensitive than the conventional 12-lead ECG alone and initial observations suggest that they remain specific for BrS, while standard and high lead V3 offer redundant data. A vertical relationship of type 1 patterns may have a similar diagnostic value to that of a horizontal pair.

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2010

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