ReviewCardiovascular ultrasound2008
Usefulness and limitations of transthoracic echocardiography in heart transplantation recipients.
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- Echocardiographic Assessment After Heart Transplant.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Strain echocardiography for assessment of cardiac graft function following donation after circulatory death heart transplantation.JHLT open · 2026Article
- Foundation versus domain-specific models for left ventricular segmentation on cardiac ultrasound.NPJ digital medicine · 2025Article
- Right Atrial Contraction Strain Is Associated With Clinically Significant Cellular Rejection in Patients After Heart Transplantation.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2025Article
- Comparative Analysis of Conventional and Speckle Tracking Echocardiographic Variables between Patients with Unrejected Heart Transplants and Healthy Individuals.Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia · 2024Article
- Speckle-Tracking Echocardiography in Right Ventricular Function of Clinically Well Patients with Heart Transplantation.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- A Comprehensive Excursus of the Roles of Echocardiography in Heart Transplantation Follow-Up.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy: Challenges and Advances in Invasive and Non-Invasive Diagnostic Modalities.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2024Review
- Do We Need New Echocardiographic Parameters for Transplant Recipients without Rejection?Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia · 2024Article
- The Clinical Role of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Assessment of Cardiac Diastolic Dysfunction.Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- The Role of Echocardiography in the Management of Heart Transplant Recipients.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Insight into Noninvasive Radiological Modalities to Detect Heart Transplant Rejection.The Indian journal of radiology & imaging · 2021Review
- Cellular and Functional Imaging of Cardiac Transplant Rejection.Current cardiovascular imaging reports · 2011Article
- Speckle-tracking 2-dimensional strain echocardiography: a new noninvasive imaging tool to evaluate acute rejection in cardiac transplantation.The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation · 2010Article
- Cardiac myocyte-specific overexpression of human GTP cyclohydrolase I protects against acute cardiac allograft rejection.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2010Article
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- Sepiapterin decreases acute rejection and apoptosis in cardiac transplants independently of changes in nitric oxide and inducible nitric-oxide synthase dimerization.The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics · 2009Article
- Where, when and how much: regulation of myelin proteolipid protein gene expression.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2004Review
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Abstract
Transthoracic echocardiography is a primary non-invasive modality for investigation of heart transplant recipients. It is a versatile tool which provides comprehensive information about cardiac structure and function. Echocardiographic examinations can be easily performed at the bedside and serially repeated without any patient's discomfort. This review highlights the usefulness of Doppler echocardiography in the assessment of left ventricular and right ventricular systolic and diastolic function, of left ventricular mass, valvular heart disease, pulmonary arterial hypertension and pericardial effusion in heart transplant recipients. The main experiences performed by either standard Doppler echocardiography and new high-tech ultrasound technologies are summarised, pointing out advantages and limitations of the described techniques in diagnosing acute allograft rejection and cardiac graft vasculopathy. Despite the sustained efforts of echocardiographic technique in predicting the biopsy state, endocardial myocardial biopsies are still regarded as the gold standard for detection of acute allograft rejection. Conversely, stress echocardiography is able to identify accurately cardiac graft vasculopathy and has a recognised prognostic in this clinical setting. A normal stress-echo justifies postponement of invasive studies. Another use of transthoracic echocardiography is the monitorisation and the visualisation of the catheter during the performance of endomyocardial biopsy. Bedside stress echocardiography is even useful to select appropriately heart donors with brain death. The ultrasound monitoring is simple and effective for monitoring a safe performance of biopsy procedures.
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