Archives of Cardiovascular Imaging

Case Report

20/2/2023

Transthoracic Echocardiography Versus Cardiac MRI in the Diagnosis of Acute Myocarditis

Hossein AliBassiri, Azin Alizadehasl, Zahra Alizadeh Sani, Anita Sadeghpour, Nahid Rezaeian, Mohammadesmaeil Rezaei

Discussion

20/2/2023

Simultaneous Left Ventricle and Left Atrial Appendage Thrombi in a Patient with Dilated Cardiomyopathy

Laxman Dubey, Ridhi Adhikari

Case Report

20/2/2023

Cerebrovascular Accident and Mesenteric Ischemia Following Diagnostic Coronary Angiography

Farahnaz Nikdoust, Mansoureh Eghbalnezhad

Case Presentation: We describe a patient who presented with hemiparesia. He had undergone coronary angiography on his right and left coronary arteries as well as his left ventricle (LV) via the radial artery access 10 days earlier using a 6-French Tiger catheter. Transthoracic echocardiography showed a large (36 × 25 mm) inhomogeneous mobile mass attached to the apicoseptal LV segment. His serum protein S was low (60% [normal = 77 - 140%]), while his protein C was normal and lupus anticoagulant was negative. During hospitalization, he developed severe abdominal pain, for which mesenteric ischemia was diagnosed. First, he underwent surgery for the resection of the infarcted intestinal segments. Then cardiac surgery was done to remove the mass. The mass was diagnosed as a thrombus. After the surgery, the general condition of the patient deteriorated and blood culture showed acinetobacter septicemia. Finally, he died due to sepsis. A review of his coronary angiography revealed that after the contrast media had left the LV, there was still dye at the contact point between the tip of the catheter and the LV, which was compatible with the location of thrombus formation.

Research Article

20/2/2023

Ventricular Dyssynchrony Markers in Healthy Black African Subjects: A Tissue Doppler Imaging Study

Marie Paule Bernadette N’cho-Mottoh, Komlavi Yayehd, Coulibaly Iklo, Justin Ben Koffi, Arnaud Kouadio Ekou, Roland Aka N’Guetta, Jean Baptiste Anzouan Kacou

Patients and Methods: Fifty healthy black African were enrolled consecutively over a period of 3 months. Time-to-peak systolic velocities (TS) and Time-to-peak early diastolic velocities (TE) were measured at the four basal segments of left ventricle. Five dyssynchrony markers were assessed: difference between maximal time-to-peak systolic velocity and minimal time-to-peak systolic velocity, time between septal time-to-peak systolic velocity and lateral time-to peak systolic velocity, standard deviation of time-to-peak systolic velocity of the four basal segments, difference between maximal time-to-peak early diastolic velocity and minimal time-to-peak early diastolic velocity, and standard deviation of time-to-peak early diastolic velocity of the four basal segments.

Research Article

20/2/2023

Echocardiographic Assessment of the Vibratory Innocent Murmur in Children: a Case-Control Study

Suchaya Silvilairat, Kakanang Jantarapagdee, Rekwan Sittiwangku, Yupada Pongprot, Charlie Phornphutkul

Results: The left ventricular false tendon was present in 84% of cases and 22% of controls (P < 0.001). Left ventricular outflow tract velocity was significantly higher in cases than in controls (P < 0.001). Early diastolic myocardial velocity at the base of the interventricular septum was lower in cases with false tendon than those without false tendon (P = 0.048). No significant difference was found regarding ascending aorta diameter, cardiac output and ejection fraction between the two groups. Left ventricular diastolic function was normal in all cases and controls.

Research Article

20/2/2023

Left Ventricular Torsional Parameters in Patients With Non-Ischemic Dilated Cardiomyopathy

Zahra Ojaghi Haghighi, Azin Alizadehasl, Hassan Moladoust, Maryam Ardeshiri, Atousa Mostafavi, Nahid Rezaeiyan, Seyed Hossein Ojaghi, Fazlolah Safi, Akram Mikaeilpour

Patients and Methods: Twenty-six DCM patients and Twenty-four normal subjects were assessed. Echocardiographic images of the short axis apical and basal views of LV were processed by VVI software to measure peak rotation degrees and also peak rotation rates in systole. LV twist was well-defined as the net difference between apical and basal rotation values and also LV torsion was considered as LV twist divided by left ventricular diastolic longitudinal length. In addition, peak untwisting value and untwisting rate were measured in diastole too.

Results: LV twist value (5.54 ± 1.94° in DCM VS. 11.5 ± 2.45° in control group) and also LV torsion (0.71 ± 0.28°/cm in DCM VS. 1.53 ± 0.42°/cm in control group) were significantly decreased in DCM patients compared with normal group (P < 0.001 for both); also, the twisting rate was notably lower in DCM vs. control (38.68 ± 14.43°/s in DCM vs. 75.88 ± 17.25°/s in control; P < 0.001) and also untwisting rate (36.28 ± 13.48°/s in DCM vs. -73.79 ± 24.45°/s in control; P < 0.001), However normalization of these times for systolic duration or LV length creates different values.

Case Report

20/2/2023

Bubbles in Pericardial Fluid: Multimodality Imaging in Iatrogenic Hydropneumopericardium

Armin Attar, Mohammad Bagher Sharifkazemi, Ali Reza Moaref

Archives of Cardiovascular Imaging: Feb 2015, 3 (1), 7 articles.