Most Accessed Articles: Cardiovascular Ultrasoundhttps://cardiovascularultrasound.biomedcentral.comMost Accessed Articles: Cardiovascular UltrasoundEchocardiography-based left ventricular mass estimation. How should we define hypertrophy?https://cardiovascularultrasound.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1476-7120-3-17Left ventricular hypertrophy is an important risk factor in cardiovascular disease and echocardiography has been widely used for diagnosis. Although an adequate methodologic standardization exists currently, d...ReviewFri, 17 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMThttps://cardiovascularultrasound.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1476-7120-3-17Murilo Foppa, Bruce B Duncan and Luis EP Rohde2005-06-17T00:00:00ZEchocardiography in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: usefulness of old and new techniques in the diagnosis and pathophysiological assessmenthttps://cardiovascularultrasound.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1476-7120-8-7Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is one of the most common inherited cardiomyopathy. The identification of patients with HCM is sometimes still a challenge. Moreover, the pathophysiology of the disease is com...ReviewWed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://cardiovascularultrasound.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1476-7120-8-7Maria-Angela Losi, Stefano Nistri, Maurizio Galderisi, Sandro Betocchi, Franco Cecchi, Iacopo Olivotto, Eustachio Agricola, Piercarlo Ballo, Simona Buralli, Antonello D'Andrea, Arcangelo D'Errico, Donato Mele, Susanna Sciomer and Sergio Mondillo2010-03-17T00:00:00ZPersistent left superior vena cava: a case report and review of literaturehttps://cardiovascularultrasound.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1476-7120-6-50Persistent left superior vena cava is rare but important congenital vascular anomaly. It results when the left superior cardinal vein caudal to the innominate vein fails to regress. It is most commonly observe...Case reportFri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMThttps://cardiovascularultrasound.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1476-7120-6-50Sandeep K Goyal, Sujeeth R Punnam, Gita Verma and Frederick L Ruberg2008-10-10T00:00:00ZRespiratory maneuvers in echocardiography: a review of clinical applicationshttps://cardiovascularultrasound.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1476-7120-7-42During echocardiographic examination, respiration induces cyclic physiological changes of intracardiac haemodynamics, causing normal variations of the right and left ventricle Doppler inflows and outflows and ...ReviewWed, 26 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://cardiovascularultrasound.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1476-7120-7-42Carmen Ginghina, Carmen C Beladan, Madalina Iancu, Andreea Calin and Bogdan A Popescu2009-08-26T00:00:00ZDiastolic dysfunction and diastolic heart failure: diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic aspectshttps://cardiovascularultrasound.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1476-7120-3-9Left ventricular (LV) diastolic dysfunction (DD) and diastolic heart failure (HF), that is symptomatic DD, are due to alterations of myocardial diastolic properties. These alterations involve relaxation and/or...ReviewMon, 04 Apr 2005 00:00:00 GMThttps://cardiovascularultrasound.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1476-7120-3-9Maurizio Galderisi2005-04-04T00:00:00Z