Published in Circulation on May 03, 2004
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Diagnostic accuracy of tissue Doppler echocardiography for patients with acute heart failure. Heart (2006) 0.80
Impaired diastolic function in naïve untreated human immunodeficiency virus infected patients. World J Cardiol (2010) 0.80
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Atrial conduction delay and its association with left atrial dimension, left atrial pressure and left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in patients at risk of atrial fibrillation. Exp Clin Cardiol (2007) 0.78
Tissue doppler imaging can be useful to distinguish pathological from physiological left ventricular hypertrophy: a study in master athletes and mild hypertensive subjects. Cardiovasc Ultrasound (2009) 0.78
The effect of milrinone on the intraoperative hemodynamics during off-pump coronary bypass surgery in patients with an elevated echocardiographic index of the ventricular filling pressure. Korean J Anesthesiol (2011) 0.78
Impact of milrinone on mitral annular velocity in patients with congestive heart failure. J Med Ultrason (2001) (2012) 0.77
B-type natriuretic peptide predicts 30-day readmission for heart failure but not readmission for other causes. J Am Heart Assoc (2014) 0.77
Regional wall motion abnormality at the lateral wall disturbs correlations between tissue Doppler E/e' ratios and left ventricular diastolic performance parameters measured by invasive methods. J Echocardiogr (2013) 0.77
Comparison of the reliability of E/E' to estimate pulmonary capillary wedge pressure in heart failure patients with preserved ejection fraction versus those with reduced ejection fraction. Int J Cardiovasc Imaging (2015) 0.77
Relation of N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) and left atrial volume index to left ventricular function in chronic hemodialysis patients. Heart Vessels (2010) 0.76
Noninvasive prediction of the exercise-induced elevation in left ventricular filling pressure in post-heart transplant patients with normal left ventricular ejection fraction. Exp Clin Cardiol (2013) 0.76
Global endocardial area change rate for the assessment of left ventricular relaxation and filling pressure: using 3-dimensional speckle-tracking study. Int J Cardiovasc Imaging (2014) 0.76
High frequency of diastolic dysfunction in a population-based cohort of elderly women--but poor association with the symptom dyspnea. BMC Geriatr (2011) 0.76
Myocardial tissue Doppler velocities in fetuses with hypoplastic left heart syndrome. Ann Pediatr Cardiol (2011) 0.75
High Sensitivity C - Reactive Protein is Associated with Diastolic Dysfunction in Young African Americans without Clinically Evident Cardiac Disease. Open Cardiovasc Med J (2011) 0.75
Studying diastology with speckle tracking echocardiography: The essentials. Ann Card Anaesth (2017) 0.75
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Assessing strategies for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction at the outpatient clinic. Arq Bras Cardiol (2014) 0.75
The association between brain natriuretic peptide and tissue Doppler parameters in children with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Bosn J Basic Med Sci (2016) 0.75
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Low level exercise echocardiography helps diagnose early stage heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: a study of echocardiography versus catheterization. Clin Res Cardiol (2016) 0.75
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Noninvasive assessment of exercise tolerance using mitral annular velocities. J Med Ultrason (2001) (2015) 0.75
Recommendations for evaluation of the severity of native valvular regurgitation with two-dimensional and Doppler echocardiography. J Am Soc Echocardiogr (2003) 11.88
Recommendations for quantification of Doppler echocardiography: a report from the Doppler Quantification Task Force of the Nomenclature and Standards Committee of the American Society of Echocardiography. J Am Soc Echocardiogr (2002) 7.59
The MOGE(S) classification for a phenotype-genotype nomenclature of cardiomyopathy: endorsed by the World Heart Federation. J Am Coll Cardiol (2013) 4.81
Cardiac-resynchronization therapy in heart failure with narrow QRS complexes. N Engl J Med (2007) 3.61
American Society of Echocardiography recommendations for quality echocardiography laboratory operations. J Am Soc Echocardiogr (2011) 3.32
American Society of Echocardiography recommendations for performance, interpretation, and application of stress echocardiography. J Am Soc Echocardiogr (2007) 3.27
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Doppler estimation of left ventricular filling pressures in patients with mitral valve disease. Circulation (2005) 2.79
Preserved left ventricular twist and circumferential deformation, but depressed longitudinal and radial deformation in patients with diastolic heart failure. Eur Heart J (2008) 2.63
EAE/ASE recommendations for image acquisition and display using three-dimensional echocardiography. J Am Soc Echocardiogr (2012) 2.41
Role of inflammation in initiation and perpetuation of atrial fibrillation: a systematic review of the published data. J Am Coll Cardiol (2007) 2.41
Left atrial function in diastolic heart failure. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging (2009) 2.34
Global diastolic strain rate for the assessment of left ventricular relaxation and filling pressures. Circulation (2007) 2.25
American Society of Echocardiography Consensus Statement on the Clinical Applications of Ultrasonic Contrast Agents in Echocardiography. J Am Soc Echocardiogr (2008) 2.25
Ambulatory monitoring of congestive heart failure by multiple bioelectric impedance vectors. J Am Coll Cardiol (2009) 2.17
Increased myocardial gene expression of tumor necrosis factor-alpha and nitric oxide synthase-2: a potential mechanism for depressed myocardial function in hibernating myocardium in humans. Circulation (2002) 2.11
Transesophageal echocardiography improves risk assessment of thrombolysis of prosthetic valve thrombosis: results of the international PRO-TEE registry. J Am Coll Cardiol (2004) 2.03
Recommendations for a standardized report for adult transthoracic echocardiography: a report from the American Society of Echocardiography's Nomenclature and Standards Committee and Task Force for a Standardized Echocardiography Report. J Am Soc Echocardiogr (2002) 1.98
Impact of left ventricular ejection fraction on estimation of left ventricular filling pressures using tissue Doppler and flow propagation velocity. Am J Cardiol (2003) 1.92
Clinical application of tissue Doppler imaging in patients with idiopathic pulmonary hypertension. Chest (2007) 1.91
Our time: a call to save preventable death from cardiovascular disease (heart disease and stroke). Circulation (2012) 1.87
In vitro validation of real-time three-dimensional color Doppler echocardiography for direct measurement of proximal isovelocity surface area in mitral regurgitation. Am J Cardiol (2007) 1.81
A novel feature-tracking echocardiographic method for the quantitation of regional myocardial function: validation in an animal model of ischemia-reperfusion. J Am Coll Cardiol (2008) 1.79
Evaluation of global and regional right ventricular systolic function in patients with pulmonary hypertension using a novel speckle tracking method. Am J Cardiol (2006) 1.77
Left ventricular untwisting rate by speckle tracking echocardiography. Circulation (2007) 1.74
A randomized cross-over study for evaluation of the effect of image optimization with contrast on the diagnostic accuracy of dobutamine echocardiography in coronary artery disease The OPTIMIZE Trial. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging (2008) 1.68
Systolic and diastolic dyssynchrony in patients with diastolic heart failure and the effect of medical therapy. J Am Coll Cardiol (2006) 1.68
Why all the focus on cardiac imaging? JACC Cardiovasc Imaging (2010) 1.68
Discovering the full spectrum of cardiovascular disease: Minority Health Summit 2003: report of the Obesity, Metabolic Syndrome, and Hypertension Writing Group. Circulation (2005) 1.67
Color tissue Doppler myocardial velocities consistently underestimate spectral tissue Doppler velocities: impact on calculation peak transmitral pulsed Doppler velocity/early diastolic tissue Doppler velocity (E/Ea). J Am Soc Echocardiogr (2006) 1.64
Cellular and hemodynamics responses of failing myocardium to continuous flow mechanical circulatory support using the DeBakey-Noon left ventricular assist device: a comparative analysis with pulsatile-type devices. J Heart Lung Transplant (2005) 1.64
Effects of the oral endothelin-receptor antagonist bosentan on echocardiographic and doppler measures in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension. J Am Coll Cardiol (2003) 1.62
Localizing and quantifying ablation lesions in the left ventricle by myocardial contrast echocardiography. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol (2004) 1.62
Tissue Doppler imaging predicts the development of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in subjects with subclinical disease. Circulation (2003) 1.56
Myozenin 2 is a novel gene for human hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Circ Res (2007) 1.51
The role of echocardiography and other imaging modalities in patients with left ventricular assist devices. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging (2010) 1.50
Growth of a left atrial sarcoma followed by resection and autotransplantation. Ann Thorac Surg (2005) 1.48
Comparative accuracy of two- and three-dimensional transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography in identifying mitral valve pathology in patients undergoing mitral valve repair: initial observations. J Am Soc Echocardiogr (2011) 1.48
The safety of deFinity and Optison for ultrasound image enhancement: a retrospective analysis of 78,383 administered contrast doses. J Am Soc Echocardiogr (2008) 1.46
Supine bicycle echocardiography improved diagnostic accuracy and physiologic assessment of coronary artery disease with the incorporation of intermediate stages of exercise. J Am Coll Cardiol (2007) 1.44
Safety and efficacy of antiplatelet and antithrombotic therapy in acute coronary syndrome patients with chronic kidney disease. J Am Coll Cardiol (2011) 1.43
Mitral annulus dynamics early after valve repair: preliminary observations of the effect of resectional versus non-resectional approaches. J Am Soc Echocardiogr (2011) 1.42
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Established and novel clinical applications of diastolic function assessment by echocardiography. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging (2011) 1.38
Prevention of cardiac hypertrophy by atorvastatin in a transgenic rabbit model of human hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Circ Res (2005) 1.34
EAE/ASE recommendations for image acquisition and display using three-dimensional echocardiography. Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Imaging (2012) 1.33
Incremental predictive power of B-type natriuretic peptide and tissue Doppler echocardiography in the prognosis of patients with congestive heart failure. J Am Coll Cardiol (2005) 1.28
Impact of contrast echocardiography on evaluation of ventricular function and clinical management in a large prospective cohort. J Am Coll Cardiol (2009) 1.23
Active interstitial remodeling: an important process in the hibernating human myocardium. J Am Coll Cardiol (2002) 1.22
Evidence for an active inflammatory process in the hibernating human myocardium. Am J Pathol (2002) 1.19
Identification of hibernating myocardium with quantitative intravenous myocardial contrast echocardiography: comparison with dobutamine echocardiography and thallium-201 scintigraphy. Circulation (2003) 1.14
Comparative accuracy of B-type natriuretic peptide and tissue Doppler echocardiography in the diagnosis of congestive heart failure. Am J Cardiol (2004) 1.12
Three-dimensional color Doppler echocardiography for direct measurement of vena contracta area in mitral regurgitation: in vitro validation and clinical experience. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging (2008) 1.11
Characterization of left ventricular diastolic function by tissue Doppler imaging and clinical status in children with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Circulation (2004) 1.10
Microvascular structural correlates of myocardial contrast echocardiography in patients with coronary artery disease and left ventricular dysfunction: implications for the assessment of myocardial hibernation. Circulation (2002) 1.09
Stress echocardiography: current methodology and clinical applications. J Am Coll Cardiol (2005) 1.08
Impact of myocardial structure and function postinfarction on diastolic strain measurements: implications for assessment of myocardial viability. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol (2005) 1.05
Direct assessment of normal mechanical mitral valve orifice area by real-time 3D echocardiography. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging (2012) 1.05
Evolution of expression of cardiac phenotypes over a 4-year period in the beta-myosin heavy chain-Q403 transgenic rabbit model of human hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. J Mol Cell Cardiol (2004) 1.03
Hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy-alcohol septal ablation vs. myectomy: a meta-analysis. Eur Heart J (2009) 1.02
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Time interval between onset of mitral inflow and onset of early diastolic velocity by tissue Doppler: a novel index of left ventricular relaxation: experimental studies and clinical application. J Am Coll Cardiol (2003) 0.99
Current perspectives on cardiac function in patients with diastolic heart failure. Circulation (2009) 0.98
Diagnostic accuracy and cost-effectiveness of contrast echocardiography on evaluation of cardiac function in technically very difficult patients in the intensive care unit. Am J Cardiol (2002) 0.98
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President's page: plan, do, study, act: a proven path to progress. J Am Coll Cardiol (2012) 0.96
Peak early diastolic velocity rather than pressure half-time is the best index of mechanical prosthetic mitral valve function. Am J Cardiol (2002) 0.94
Successful multi-vessel percutaneous coronary intervention with bivalirudin in a patient with severe hemophilia A: a case report and review of literature. J Invasive Cardiol (2004) 0.93
Assessment of the American Society of Echocardiography-European Association of Echocardiography guidelines for diastolic function in patients with depressed ejection fraction: an echocardiographic and invasive haemodynamic study. Eur J Echocardiogr (2011) 0.92
AHA/ACC/HHS strategies to enhance application of clinical practice guidelines in patients with cardiovascular disease and comorbid conditions: from the American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology, and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. J Am Coll Cardiol (2014) 0.92
Percent change in B-type natriuretic peptide levels during treadmill exercise as a screening test for exercise-induced myocardial ischemia. Am Heart J (2005) 0.92