Focused cardiac ultrasonography is a point-of-care, qualitative or semiquantitative means of assessing cardiac size, structure, and function that is performed and interpreted by the clinician at the ...

Noncompacted left ventricle is currently listed as an unclassified cardiomyopathy by the World Health Organization. In a recent study, Oechslin and colleagues describe their observations and follow-up ...

A 47-year-old woman, previously not treated for chronic diseases, was admitted to the hospital in a severe condition and with symptoms of New York Heart Association class IV heart failure (HF) ...

THE chordae tendineae serve an essential anchoring function in the mechanics of mitral-valve closure during ventricular systole. Rupture of one or more of these fibrous structures usually leads to ...

Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is when the heart’s main pumping chamber, the left ventricle, becomes thicker and less able to pump blood efficiently. It usually develops because of another heart ...

Background: The differentiation between physiological cardiac enlargement and cardiomyopathy is crucial, considering that most young non-traumatic deaths in sport are due to cardiomyopathy. Currently, ...

Following a Carpentier Edwards mitral valve replacement (MVR), left ventricular outflow tract obstruction is observed that leads to a gradient of more than 50mm Hg. This rare complication occurs in ...

Ventricular septal defect is a hole in the wall between the right and left ventricles of the heart. This abnormality usually develops before birth and is found most often in infants. The ventricles ...