Search Results - "Lax, Jorge A"
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CoreValve Prosthesis Causes Anterior Mitral Leaflet Perforation Resulting in Severe Mitral Regurgitation
Published in Canadian journal of cardiology (01-09-2014)“…Abstract Percutaneous transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has become an alternative to surgical therapy for patients with severe aortic stenosis and…”
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Myocardial perfusion SPECT in the diagnosis of apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Published in Journal of nuclear cardiology (01-06-2009)“…Background Apical hypertrophy cardiomyopathy (ACM) is a rare condition characterized by asymmetric myocardial hypertrophy of the apex of the left ventricle…”
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Cardiovascular adaptive response to training in elite athletes. Comparison between endurance and non-endurance athletes
Published in Medicina (01-05-2024)“…The different structural modifications that have been described in the heart of the high-performance athlete depend on factors such as age, gender, type of…”
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Double-orifice mitral valve
Published in Journal of echocardiography (01-03-2014)“…We report the case of a rare congenital anomaly, a double-orifice mitral valve, in a 21-year-old woman who was asymptomatic and had no history of heart…”
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Mechanical dispersion in Fabry disease assessed with speckle tracking echocardiography
Published in Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) (01-02-2020)“…Background Fabry disease (FD) is a rare X‐linked storage disorder caused by deficiency of the lysosomal enzyme α‐galactosidase A, and it typically causes…”
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Impaired Myocardial Function in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Published in Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) (01-07-2009)“…Background: Tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) parameters of peak myocardial velocities (S′, E′, and A′) has been employed to assess the regional left ventricular…”
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Bone cement cardiac and pulmonary embolism
Published in Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) (01-08-2017)“…This case describes a complication of bone cement use. A 65‐year‐old male patient with back spine trauma caused by a fall, underwent a percutaneous…”
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Comparison of left atrial size and function in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and in Fabry disease with left ventricular hypertrophy
Published in Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) (01-05-2018)“…Background Fabry disease (FD) and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) are two diseases with a different pathophysiology, both cause left ventricular hypertrophy…”
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Clinical significance of tissue Doppler imaging in chronic Chagas disease
Published in Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) (01-08-2020)“…Introduction Chagas disease (ChD) is one of the main parasitic diseases in Latin‐America. Its heart involvement is the most important cause of death. The aim…”
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Two-Dimensional Speckle Tracking Echocardiography for Early Detection of Myocardial Damage in Young Patients with Fabry Disease
Published in Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) (01-10-2013)“…Fabry disease (FD) is characterized by left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH). Conventional echocardiography is not sensitive enough to perform the preclinical…”
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Early detection of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in Chagas' disease
Published in Cardiovascular ultrasound (31-03-2006)“…Chagas' disease may cause left ventricular diastolic dysfunction and its early detection in asymptomatic patients would allow to stratify the risk and to…”
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Assessment of Coronary Flow with Transthoracic Color Doppler Echocardiography in Patients with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Published in Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) (01-11-2013)“…Background Recent advances in echocardiography have allowed assessment of flow velocity in the epicardial coronary arteries of patients with ischemic heart…”
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Severe Mitral Regurgitation after Radiotherapy
Published in Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) (01-02-2014)“…We present the case of a 69‐year‐old patient with a history of gynecological neoplasia and a pulmonary metastasis, who in 1996 underwent chemotherapy and…”
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Esophageal Carcinoma and Transthoracic Echocardiography
Published in Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) (01-10-2013)“…We report a rare case of a patient with esophageal carcinoma diagnosed using transthoracic echocardiography. This examination proved to be useful in the…”
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Transesophageal Echocardiography During Ventricular Fibrillation
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Left ventricular diverticulum, a rare echocardiographic finding: two adult patients and review of the literature
Published in Cardiology journal (2009)“…Congenital diverticulum of the left ventricle is a very rare cardiac abnormality characterized by a local embryological development failure of the ventricular…”
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Complete regression of myocardial involvement associated with lymphoma following chemotherapy
Published in World journal of cardiology (26-09-2013)“…Cardiac involvement as an initial presentation of malignant lymphoma is a rare occurrence.We describe the case of a 26 year old man who had initially been…”
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Cinefluoroscopic assessment of mechanical disc prostheses: its value as a complementary method to echocardiography
Published in The Journal of heart valve disease (01-09-2005)“…Many types of mechanical prostheses are used for heart valve replacement, but it is difficult to distinguish between them using transthoracic echocardiography…”
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Left ventricular thrombus mimicking primary cardiac tumor in a patient with primary antiphospholipid syndrome and recurrent systemic embolism
Published in Cardiology journal (2009)“…Primary antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is a well-defined entity characterized by spontaneous and recurrent abortion, thrombocytopenia and recurrent vascular…”
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Left and right atrial function after percutaneous mitral valvuloplasty in mitral stenosis and sinus rhythm
Published in The Journal of heart valve disease (01-09-2008)“…Percutaneous mitral valvuloplasty (PMV) is an effective method for treating patients with severe mitral stenosis. The study aim was to compare left and right…”
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