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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
• Addition of Supervised Exercise Training to a Post-Hospital Disease Management Program for Patients Recently Hospitalized With Acute Heart Failure: The EJECTION-HF Randomized Phase 4 Trial  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  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 Left Ventricular Function by Echocardiography: The Case for Routinely Adding Global Longitudinal Strain to Ejection Fraction  Academic Article
• Assessment of Myocardial Viability at Dobutamine Echocardiography by Deformation Analysis Using Tissue Velocity and Speckle-Tracking  Academic Article
• Assessment of Prognostic Value of Left Ventricular Global Longitudinal Strain for Early Prediction of Chemotherapy-Induced Cardiotoxicity: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis  Academic Article
• Assessment of left ventricular function in aortic stenosis  Academic Article
• Assessment of regional long-axis function during dobutamine echocardiography  Academic Article
• Assessment of subclinical left ventricular dysfunction in aortic stenosis  Academic Article
• Association of Abnormal Left Ventricular Functional Reserve With Outcome in Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction  Academic Article
• Association of Active and Passive Components of LV Diastolic Filling With Exercise Intolerance in Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction. Mechanistic Insights From Spironolactone Response  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
• Attenuation of the Negative Inotropic Effects of Metoprolol at Short Cycle Lengths in Humans  Academic Article
• Augmentation Index, Left Ventricular Contractility, and Wave Reflection  Academic Article
• B-Type Natriuretic Peptide: Endogenous Regulator of Myocardial Structure, Biomarker and Therapeutic Target  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  Academic Article
• Cardiac Contributions to Exercise Training Responses in Patients with Chronic Heart Failure: A Strain Imaging Study  Academic Article
• Changes in the Preterm Heart From Birth to Young Adulthood: A Meta-analysis  Academic Article
• Characterization of the phospholemman knockout mouse heart: depressed left ventricular function with increased Na-K-ATPase activity  Academic Article
• Chronic Administration of the Nitroxyl Donor 1-Nitrosocyclo Hexyl Acetate Limits Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction in a Mouse Model of Diabetes Mellitus In Vivo  Academic Article
• Chronic systemic inflammation accompanies impaired ventricular diastolic function, detected by Doppler imaging, in patients with newly diagnosed systolic heart failure (Hellenic Heart Failure 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
• Collaborative Regulation of LRG1 by TGF-beta 1 and PPAR-beta/delta Modulates Chronic Pressure Overload-Induced Cardiac Fibrosis  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 3D echocardiographic‐derived indices using fully automatic left ventricular endocardial tracing (heart model) and semiautomatic tracing (3DQ‐ADV)  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
• Comparison of the Diastolic Stress Test With a Combined Resting Echocardiography and Biomarker Approach to Patients With Exertional Dyspnea: Diagnostic and Prognostic Implications  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
• Diagnosis of Nonischemic Stage B Heart Failure in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Optimal Parameters for Prediction of Heart Failure  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
• Distribution and prognostic significance of left ventricular global longitudinal strain in asymptomatic significant aortic stenosis: An individual participant data meta-analysis  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
• Ejection Fraction Pros and Cons: JACC State-of-the-Art Review  Academic Article
• Ethnic-Specific Normative Reference Values for Echocardiographic LA and LV Size, LV Mass, and Systolic Function  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
• Global Longitudinal Shortening: A Positive Step Towards Reducing Confusion Surrounding Global Longitudinal Strain  Editorial Article
• Glycemic Control and Heart Failure  Editorial 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
• Impact of marathon running on cardiac structure and function in recreational runners  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
• Inhibition of heat shock protein 70 blocks the development of cardiac hypertrophy by modulating the phosphorylation of histone deacetylase 2  Academic Article
• Insulin replacement limits progression of diabetic cardiomyopathy in the low-dose streptozotocin-induced diabetic rat  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 dysfunction and exercise capacity trajectory: Implications for subclinical heart failure staging criteria  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
• MRI-Derived Myocardial Strain Measures in Normal Subjects  Academic Article
• Measurement of Functional Capacity to Discriminate of Clinical from Subclinical Heart Failure in Patients ≥65 Years of Age  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  Academic Article
• Myocardial abnormalities in hypertensive patients with normal and abnormal left ventricular filling: a study of ultrasound tissue characterization and strain  Academic Article
• Myocardial strain in the assessment of patients with heart failure: A review  Academic Article
• No contribution of IP₃-R(2) to disease phenotype in models of dilated cardiomyopathy or pressure overload hypertrophy  Academic Article
• Normal Global Longitudinal Strain: An Individual Patient Meta-Analysis  Academic Article
• Normal ranges of left ventricular strain: A meta-analysis  Academic Article
• PI3K(p110α) Protects Against Myocardial Infarction-Induced Heart Failure  Academic Article
• Patients with early diabetic heart disease demonstrate a normal myocardial response to dobutamine  Academic Article
• Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase p110α 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
• Postextrasystolic potentiation in patients with ischaemic heart disease: influence of inotropic agents.  Academic Article
• Prediction by postexercise fluoro-18 deoxyglucose positron emission tomography of improvement in exercise capacity after revascularization  Academic Article
• Prediction of 30-Day heart failure-specific readmission risk by cchocardiographic parameters  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
• Rationale and design of the strain surveillance of chemotherapy for improving cardiovascular outcomes: the SUCCOUR trial  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  Academic Article
• Recent Developments in Heart Failure Imaging  Academic Article
• Relation Between Acute Myocardial Uptake and Hemodynamic and Electrocardiograpic Effects of Metoprolol in Humans  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
• Research to Practice: Assessment of Left Ventricular Global Longitudinal Strain for Surveillance of Cancer Chemotherapeutic-Related Cardiac Dysfunction  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 Diastolic Dyssynchrony in the Delayed Relaxation Pattern of Left Ventricular Filling  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
• Single Versus Standard Multiview Assessment of Global Longitudinal Strain for the Diagnosis of Cardiotoxicity During Cancer Therapy  Academic Article
• Skeletal muscle mass in acute coronary syndrome prognosis: Gender-based analysis from Hellenic Heart Failure cohort  Academic Article
• Subclinical Myocardial Impairment in Metabolic Diseases  Academic Article
• The 12-lead ECG in peripartum cardiomyopathy  Academic Article
• The Future of Cardiovascular Imaging in the Diagnosis and Management of Heart Failure, Part 2  Academic Article
• The Many Dimensions of Diastolic Function  Editorial 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
• The Mitochondria-Targeted Methylglyoxal Sequestering Compound, MitoGamide, Is Cardioprotective in the Diabetic Heart  Academic Article
• The concomitant coronary vasodilator and positive inotropic actions of the nitroxyl donor Angeli's salt in the intact rat heart: contribution of soluble guanylyl cyclase-dependent and -independent mechanisms  Academic Article
• The force-interval relationship of the left ventricle: A quantitative description in patients with ischemic heart disease  Academic Article
• The intrinsic resistance of female hearts to an ischemic insult is abrogated in primary cardiac hypertrophy  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 Speckle-Strain in a Multiparametric Approach to Dyssynchrony Imaging  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 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 ∗  Editorial Article
• When Is a Number Not a Number? Quality Control Arrives in the Imaging Laboratory  Academic Article