Echocardiographic assessment of right ventricular function remains difficult and challenging.
However, there is considerable clinical need for a simple, reproducible, and reliable …

Although the assessment of right ventricular (RV) function is important in the clinical
management of children with congenital heart disease, available imaging techniques have …

A Doppler index combining systolic and diastolic time intervals (Tei index) has been
reported to be useful for assessing global left ventricular (LV) function and predicting clinical …

To determine the effect of thrombolytic therapy on the frequency of right ventricular (RV)
dysfunction, and whether RV dysfunction is a risk factor for morbidity and mortality after …

Dynamic nuclear medicine studies can generate large quantities of data, and their analysis
consists essentially of a reduction of these data to a small number of relevant parameters …

BACKGROUND: The myocardial performance index (MPI) correlates with clinical status in
adults with idiopathic pulmonary arterial (PA) hypertension (IPAH). This pediatric study used …

The differentiation of primary dilated cardiomyopathy from ischemic cardiomyopathy, though
important, is difficult clinically and may require coronary angiography or metabolic imaging …

In patients with chronic respiratory failure, right-ventricular function was non-invasively
evaluated by Doppler echocardiography. A total of 31 patients (16 men, 15 women; mean …

In addition to providing a reliable determination of RV systolic function, nuclear-imaging
techniques are emerging as clinically useful tools to assess RV perfusion and metabolism …

The right ventricle has a prominent role in determining overall cardiac function. Thus an
accurate measurement of right ventricular (RV) function is important. Radionuclide …