Tissue Doppler imaging: a new prognosticator for cardiovascular diseases

CM Yu, JE Sanderson, TH Marwick, JK Oh - Journal of the American …, 2007 - jacc.org
Tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) is evolving as a useful echocardiographic tool for quantitative
assessment of left ventricular (LV) systolic and diastolic function. Recent studies have …

Heart failure with a normal ejection fraction

JE Sanderson - Heart, 2007 - heart.bmj.com
Nearly half of patients with symptoms of heart failure are found to have a normal left
ventricular (LV) ejection fraction. This has variously been labelled as diastolic heart failure …

How to diagnose diastolic heart failure: a consensus statement on the diagnosis of heart failure with normal left ventricular ejection fraction by the Heart Failure and …

WJ Paulus, C Tschöpe, JE Sanderson… - European heart …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Diastolic heart failure (DHF) currently accounts for more than 50% of all heart failure
patients. DHF is also referred to as heart failure with normal left ventricular (LV) ejection …

Understanding nonresponders of cardiac resynchronization therapy—current and future perspectives

CMAN YU, J WING‐HONG FUNG… - Journal of …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction: Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is now an established
nonpharmacologic therapy for advanced heart failure with electromechanical delay. Despite …

Tissue Doppler echocardiographic evidence of reverse remodeling and improved synchronicity by simultaneously delaying regional contraction after biventricular …

CM Yu, E Chau, JE Sanderson, K Fan, MO Tang… - Circulation, 2002 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—Biventricular pacing has been proposed to improve symptoms and exercise
capacity in patients with advanced heart failure and wide electrocardiographic wave …

Lipids, lipoproteins, and apolipoproteins as risk markers of myocardial infarction in 52 countries (the INTERHEART study): a case-control study

MJ McQueen, S Hawken, X Wang, S Ounpuu… - The lancet, 2008 - thelancet.com
Background Whether lipoproteins are better markers than lipids and lipoproteins for
coronary heart disease is widely debated. Our aim was to compare the apolipoproteins and …

Predictors of left ventricular reverse remodeling after cardiac resynchronization therapy for heart failure secondary to idiopathic dilated or ischemic cardiomyopathy

CM Yu, WH Fung, H Lin, Q Zhang… - The American journal of …, 2003 - Elsevier
Biventricular pacing results in left ventricular (LV) reverse remodeling in heart failure
patients with wide QRS complexes. This study examines potential predictors of reverse …

Tissue Doppler imaging is superior to strain rate imaging and postsystolic shortening on the prediction of reverse remodeling in both ischemic and nonischemic heart …

CM Yu, JWH Fung, Q Zhang, CK Chan, YS Chan… - Circulation, 2004 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—A number of noninvasive techniques have been used to predict the
effectiveness of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) in heart failure patients, in …

The pathophysiology of heart failure with normal ejection fraction: exercise echocardiography reveals complex abnormalities of both systolic and diastolic ventricular …

YT Tan, F Wenzelburger, E Lee, G Heatlie… - Journal of the American …, 2009 - jacc.org
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that in heart failure with
normal ejection fraction (HFNEF) exercise limitation is due to combined systolic and diastolic …

Peak early diastolic mitral annulus velocity by tissue Doppler imaging adds independent and incremental prognostic value

M Wang, GWK Yip, AYM Wang, Y Zhang, PY Ho… - Journal of the American …, 2003 - jacc.org
Objectives: The aim of this study was to ascertain if left ventricular mitral annulus velocities
measured by tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) are more powerful predictors of outcome …