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• A 6-Month Follow-up of Intermittent Levosimendan Administration Effect on Systolic Function, Specific Activity Questionnaire, and Arrhythmia in Advanced Heart Failure  Academic Article
• A Randomized Study of the Beneficial Effects of Aldosterone Antagonism on LV Function, Structure, and Fibrosis Markers in Metabolic Syndrome  Academic Article
• A comparison of methods for assessing total arterial compliance  Academic Article
• A comparison study of the echocardiographic changes in hypertensive patients treated with telmisartan vs. enalapril  Academic Article
• Abnormal left ventricular diastolic function at late follow-up after repair of total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage: The impact of altered ventricular loading in utero  Academic Article
• Abnormal left ventricular filling with increasing age reflects abnormal myocardial characteristics independent of ischemia or hypertrophy  Academic Article
• Acute elevation of triglycerides increases left ventricular contractility and alters ventricular-vascular interaction  Academic Article
• Akt/Protein Kinase B Promotes Organ Growth in Transgenic Mice  Academic Article
• Alterations in regional myocardial deformation assessed by strain imaging in cardiac amyloidosis  Academic Article
• Alternative methods for the assessment of mechanical dyssynchrony using phase analysis of gated single photon emission computed tomography myocardial perfusion imaging  Academic Article
• Analysis of interinstitutional observer agreement in interpretation of dobutamine stress echocardiograms  Academic Article
• Application of 3D echocardiography to everyday practice: Development of normal ranges is step 1  Academic Article
• Application of a Parametric Display of Two-Dimensional Speckle-Tracking Longitudinal Strain to Improve the Etiologic Diagnosis of Mild to Moderate Left Ventricular Hypertrophy  Academic Article
• Arrhythmic risk assessment in genotyped families with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy  Academic Article
• Assessment of Myocardial Viability at Dobutamine Echocardiography by Deformation Analysis Using Tissue Velocity and Speckle-Tracking  Academic Article
• Assessment of left ventricular function in aortic stenosis  Academic Article
• Assessment of regional long-axis function during dobutamine echocardiography  Academic Article
• Association of Cardiac Autonomic Neuropathy With Subclinical Myocardial Dysfunction in Type 2 Diabetes  Academic Article
• Association of Exercise Intolerance in Type 2 Diabetes With Skeletal Muscle Blood Flow Reserve  Academic Article
• Association of Myocardial Deformation With Outcome in Asymptomatic Aortic Stenosis With Normal Ejection Fraction  Academic Article
• Association of depression with evolution of heart failure in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus  Academic Article
• Association of severe coronary stenosis with subclinical left ventricular dysfunction in the absence of infarction  Academic Article
• Association of waist circumference with impaired six-minute walk in type 2 diabetes mellitus is independent of cardiac function  Academic Article
• Augmentation Index, Left Ventricular Contractility, and Wave Reflection  Academic Article
• Baseline and follow-up assessment of regional left ventricular volume using 3-dimensional echocardiography: comparison with cardiac magnetic resonance  Academic Article
• Beta-blockade in heart failure: A comparison of carvedilol with metoprolol  Academic Article
• Cardiac Contributions to Exercise Training Responses in Patients with Chronic Heart Failure: A Strain Imaging Study  Academic Article
• Clinical Implications of Echocardiographic Phenotypes of Patients With Diabetes Mellitus  Academic Article
• Clinical decision-making and myocardial viability: current perspectives  Academic Article
• Comparative prediction of cardiac events by wall motion, wall motion plus coronary flow reserve, or myocardial perfusion analysis: A multicenter study of contrast stress echocardiography  Academic Article
• Comparison of Two- and Three-Dimensional Echocardiography With Sequential Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Evaluating Left Ventricular Volume and Ejection Fraction Over Time in Patients With Healed Myocardial Infarction  Academic Article
• Comparison of different interdialytic intervals among hemodialysis patients on their echocardiogram-based cardiovascular parameters  Academic Article
• Contributions of Nondiastolic Factors to Exercise Intolerance in Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction  Academic Article
• Cross-sectional relationship of a Mediterranean type diet to diastolic heart function in chronic heart failure patients  Academic Article
• Decision Making in Asymptomatic Aortic Regurgitation in the Era of Guidelines: Incremental Values of Resting and Exercise Cardiac Dysfunction  Academic Article
• Decreased free radical scavengers with reperfusion after coronary angioplasty in patients with acute myocardial infarction  Academic Article
• Determinants of Exercise Capacity in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes  Academic Article
• Determinants of Functional Capacity in Chronic Mitral Regurgitation Unassociated With Coronary Artery Disease or Left Ventricular Dysfunction  Academic Article
• Determinants of subclinical diabetic heart disease  Academic Article
• Development of a fully quantitative approach to the interpretation of stress echocardiography using radial and longitudinal myocardial velocities  Academic Article
• Diagnostic and Prognostic Implications of Left Ventricular Cavity Obliteration Response to Dobutamine Echocardiography  Academic Article
• Diastolic Function in Young Patients with Beta-Thalassemia Major: An Echocardiographic Study  Academic Article
• Diastolic Stress Echocardiography: Hemodynamic Validation and Clinical Significance of Estimation of Ventricular Filling Pressure With Exercise  Academic Article
• Doppler Echocardiographic Detection of Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction in Patients With Pulmonary Sarcoidosis  Academic Article
• Dyssynchrony Measurements to Predict Functional Recovery After CRT: Too Good to Be True?  Academic Article
• Dyssynchrony, contraction efficiency and regional function with apical and non-apical RV pacing  Academic Article
• EAE/ASE Recommendations for Image Acquisition and Display Using Three-Dimensional Echocardiography  Academic Article
• Echocardiographic assessment of raised pulmonary vascular resistance: application to diagnosis and follow-up of pulmonary hypertension  Academic Article
• Effect of Experience and Training on the Concordance and Precision of Strain Measurements  Academic Article
• Effect of If-Channel Inhibition on Hemodynamic Status and Exercise Tolerance in Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction  Academic Article
• Effect of Mineralocorticoid Receptor Antagonists on Cardiac Structure and Function in Patients With Diastolic Dysfunction and Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction: A Meta‐Analysis and Systematic Review  Academic Article
• Effect of Recommendations on Interobserver Consistency of Diastolic Function Evaluation  Academic Article
• Effect of right ventricular pacing lead site on left ventricular function in patients with high-grade atrioventricular block: results of the Protect-Pace study  Academic Article
• Effects of Exercise and Lifestyle Intervention on Cardiovascular Function in CKD  Academic Article
• Effects of perhexiline on myocardial deformation in patients with ischaemic left ventricular dysfunction  Academic Article
• Evidence for Abnormal Left Ventricular Structure and Function in Normotensive Individuals with Familial Hyperaldosteronism Type I  Academic Article
• Exercise two-dimensional echocardiography and Doppler assessment of left ventricular function  Conference Paper
• Extent and severity of abnormal left ventricular wall motion detected by exercise echocardiography during painful and silent ischemia  Academic Article
• Feasibility and clinical decision-making with 3D echocardiography in routine practice  Academic Article
• Fibrosis and cardiac function in obesity: a randomised controlled trial of aldosterone blockade  Academic Article
• Follow-Up of Pulmonary Hypertension With Echocardiography  Academic Article
• Functional and Anatomic Responses of the Left Atrium to Change in Estimated Left Ventricular Filling Pressure  Academic Article
• Functional status and quality of life in patients with heart failure undergoing coronary bypass surgery after assessment of myocardial viability  Academic Article
• Global 2-Dimensional Strain as a New Prognosticator in Patients With Heart Failure  Academic Article
• Glycemic Control and Heart Failure: Table.  Academic Article
• Guiding Hypertension Management Using Central Blood Pressure: Effect of Medication Withdrawal on Left Ventricular Function  Academic Article
• Identification of Therapeutic Benefit from Revascularization in Patients With Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction: Inducible Ischemia Versus Hibernating Myocardium  Academic Article
• Impact of Aortic Valve Replacement on Outcome of Symptomatic Patients With Severe Aortic Stenosis With Low Gradient and Preserved Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction  Academic Article
• Improvement of left ventricular function by lifestyle intervention in obesity: contributions of weight loss and reduced insulin resistance  Academic Article
• Incidence, time of occurrence and response to heart failure therapy in patients with anthracycline cardiotoxicity  Academic Article
• Incremental Prognostic Value of Global Longitudinal Strain and 18F-Fludeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography in Patients With Systemic Sarcoidosis  Academic Article
• Independent and Incremental Value of Deformation Indices for Prediction of Trastuzumab-Induced Cardiotoxicity  Academic Article
• Independent association of left atrial function with exercise capacity in patients with preserved ejection fraction  Academic Article
• Infarct Characterization and Quantification by Delayed Enhancement Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging Is a Powerful Independent and Incremental Predictor of Mortality in Patients With Advanced Ischemic Cardiomyopathy  Academic Article
• Influence of Altered Blood Rheology on Ventricular-Vascular Response to Exercise  Academic Article
• Influence of left ventricular size and hemodynamics on the systolic longitudinal myocardial Doppler velocity response to stress  Academic Article
• Interaction of Left Ventricular Geometry and Myocardial Ischemia in the Response of Myocardial Deformation to Stress  Academic Article
• Intra-coronary high-dose CD34+ stem cells in patients with chronic ischemic heart disease: A 12-month follow-up  Academic Article
• Intrauterine growth restriction coupled with hyperglycemia: effects on cardiac structure in adult rats  Academic Article
• Latent left ventricular dysfunction in patients with mitral regurgitation: Feasibility of measuring diminished contractile reserve from a simplified model of noninvasively derived left ventricular pressure-volume loops  Academic Article
• Left Ventricular Global Longitudinal Strain (GLS) Is a Superior Predictor of All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality When Compared to Ejection Fraction in Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease  Academic Article
• Left atrial booster pump function is an independent predictor of subsequent life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias in non-ischaemic cardiomyopathy  Academic Article
• Left ventricular function after valve repair for chronic mitral regurgitation: Predictive value of preoperative assessment of contractile reserve by exercise echocardiography  Academic Article
• Mechanisms of exercise training in patients with heart failure  Academic Article
• Meta-Analysis of Effects of Optimization of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy on Left Ventricular Function, Exercise Capacity, and Quality of Life in Patients With Heart Failure  Academic Article
• Myocardial Strain Measurement With 2-Dimensional Speckle-Tracking Echocardiography. Definition of Normal Range  Academic Article
• Myocardial abnormalities in hypertensive patients with normal and abnormal left ventricular filling: a study of ultrasound tissue characterization and strain  Academic Article
• No Contribution of IP3-R(2) to Disease Phenotype in Models of Dilated Cardiomyopathy or Pressure Overload Hypertrophy  Academic Article
• Normal Ranges of Left Ventricular Strain: A Meta-Analysis  Academic Article
• PI3K(p110 ) Protects Against Myocardial Infarction-Induced Heart Failure: Identification of PI3K-Regulated miRNA and mRNA  Academic Article
• Patients with early diabetic heart disease demonstrate a normal myocardial response to dobutamine  Academic Article
• Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase p110  Is a Master Regulator of Exercise-Induced Cardioprotection and PI3K Gene Therapy Rescues Cardiac Dysfunction  Academic Article
• Phosphoinositide 3-kinase (p110α) gene delivery limits diabetes-induced cardiac NADPH oxidase and cardiomyopathy in a mouse model with established diastolic dysfunction  Academic Article
• Phosphoinositide 3-kinase Akt signaling pathway interacts with protein kinase Cβ2 in the regulation of physiologic developmental hypertrophy and heart function  Academic Article
• Prediction by postexercise fluoro-18 deoxyglucose positron emission tomography of improvement in exercise capacity after revascularization  Academic Article
• Prediction of global left ventricular function after bypass surgery in patients with severe left ventricular dysfunction. Impact of pre-operative myocardial function, perfusion, and metabolism  Academic Article
• Prediction of subclinical left ventricular dysfunction with strain rate imaging in patients with asymptomatic severe mitral regurgitation  Academic Article
• Predictors of a sustained response to exercise training in patients with chronic heart failure: A telemonitoring study  Academic Article
• Prognosis of patients with ischaemic cardiomyopathy after coronary revascularisation: relation to viability and improvement in left ventricular ejection fraction  Academic Article
• Prognostic Implications of LV Strain Risk Score in Asymptomatic Patients With Hypertensive Heart Disease  Academic Article
• Prognostic Significance of Exercise-induced Right Ventricular Dysfunction in Asymptomatic Degenerative Mitral Regurgitation  Academic Article
• Prognostic significance of right ventricular ejection fraction following inferior myocardial infarction  Academic Article
• Provocation of latent left ventricular outflow tract gradients with amyl nitrite and exercise in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy  Academic Article
• Quantitative techniques for stress echocardiography: Dream or reality?  Academic Article
• Re: Tartière et al, Noninvasively determined radial dP/dt is a predictor of mortality in patients with heart failure (Am Heart J 2008;155:758-63)  Academic Article
• Real-time 3D echocardiographic quantification of left atrial volume: Multicenter study for validation with CMR  Academic Article
• Recent Developments in Heart Failure Imaging  Academic Article
• Relation of Functional Status to Risk of Development of Atrial Fibrillation  Academic Article
• Relationship of ventricular longitudinal function to contractile reserve in patients with mitral regurgitation  Academic Article
• Relative apical sparing of longitudinal strain using two-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography is both sensitive and specific for the diagnosis of cardiac amyloidosis  Academic Article
• Reproducibility of echocardiographic techniques for sequential assessment of left ventricular ejection fraction and volumes: Application to patients undergoing cancer chemotherapy  Academic Article
• Response of B-type natriuretic peptide to exercise in hypertensive patients with suspected diastolic heart failure: Correlation with cardiac function, hemodynamics, and workload  Academic Article
• Role of Exercise and Metabolism in Heart Failure with Normal Ejection fraction  Academic Article
• Role of cardioprotective therapy for prevention of cardiotoxicity with chemotherapy: A systematic review and meta-analysis  Academic Article
• Serum glucose level at hospital admission correlates with left ventricular systolic dysfunction in nondiabetic, acute coronary patients: the Hellenic Heart Failure Study  Academic Article
• Subclinical Myocardial Impairment in Metabolic Diseases  Academic Article
• The Future of Cardiovascular Imaging in the Diagnosis and Management of Heart Failure, Part 2: Clinical Applications  Academic Article
• The Mediterranean diet contributes to the preservation of left ventricular systolic function and to the long-term favorable prognosis of patients who have had an acute coronary event  Academic Article
• Use of Peak Systolic Strain as an Index of Regional Left Ventricular Function: Comparison with Tissue Doppler Velocity During Dobutamine Stress and Myocardial Ischemia  Academic Article
• Use of myocardial strain to assess global left ventricular function: A comparison with cardiac magnetic resonance and 3-dimensional echocardiography  Academic Article
• Use of speckle-strain in a multiparametric approach to dyssynchrony imaging  Academic Article
• Use of standard imaging techniques for prediction of postrevascularization functional recovery in patients with heart failure  Academic Article
• Usefulness of B-type natriuretic peptide in hypertensive patients with exertional dyspnea and normal left ventricular ejection fraction and correlation with new echocardiographic indexes of systolic and diastolic function  Academic Article
• Usefulness of myocardial tissue Doppler echocardiography to evaluate left ventricular dyssynchrony before and after biventricular pacing in patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy  Academic Article
• Variations in subclinical left ventricular dysfunction, functional capacity, and clinical outcomes in different heart failure aetiologies  Academic Article
• Ventricular hypertrophy and left atrial dilatation persist and are associated with reduced survival after valve replacement for aortic stenosis  Academic Article
• Ventriculoarterial Coupling and the Diagnosis of Early LV Dysfunction ∗  Academic Article
• When is a number not a number? Quality control arrives in the imaging laboratory  Academic Article