Current Issue March 2012, Vol. 22, No. 1

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Multimodality imaging in pericardial diseases
March 2012(Vol. 22 | No. 1 | Pages 1-10)
Elena Fortuny, Covadonga Fernandez-Golfin, Dafne Viliani, José L. Zamorano

Role of cardiovascular ultrasound in patients with chronic renal disease
March 2012(Vol. 22 | No. 1 | Pages 11-20)
Catalin Usurelu, Roberta Sappa, Razvan Ticulescu, Lina Sparacino, Elisa Leiballi, Daniela Pavan, Olga Vriz, Francesco Antonini-Canterin

Changing perspectives in the echocardiographic approach of hypertensive heart disease
March 2012(Vol. 22 | No. 1 | Pages 21-28)
Maurizio Galderisi

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Cardiopatia ipertensiva e insufficienza cardiaca con normale frazione di eiezione ventricolare sinistra. Ruolo dell’ecocardiografia convenzionale e di quella avanzata nella valutazione della disfunzione ventricolare sinistra
16 April 2012
Giancarlo Gambelli, Michele Paradiso, Elisabetta Amici, Antonio Terranova, Paolo G. Pino, Pio Caso
Riassunto: Introduzione: La cardiopatia ipertensiva si manifesta con adattamenti strutturali e funzionali del miocardio che conducono, specie nelle donne di età > 65 anni, verso l’insufficienza car...
La risonanza magnetica cardiovascolare nella valutazione dello scompenso cardiaco: dalla morfologia alla caratterizzazione tissutale
13 April 2012
Rosangela Cocchia, Antonello D’Andrea, Roberto Padalino, Marianna Fontana, Giuseppe Limongelli, Pietro Muto, Raffaele Calabrò, Maria G. Russo, Giuseppe Pacileo, James C. Moon
Riassunto: Introduzione: Lo scompenso cardiaco (SC) è una sindrome secondaria a molteplici patologie. La Risonanza Magnetica Cardiovascolare (RMC), utilizzando la gamma di sequenze a sua disposizione,...
New findings and the role of cardiac imaging in myocarditis and related induced cardiomyopathy
09 April 2012
Gianluca Di Bella, Fausto Pizzino, Maria Pia Calabrò, Maurizio Cusmà Piccione, Luciana Rigoli, Raffaella Iudicello, Moemen Mohammed, Giuseppe Picciolo, Carmelo Salpietro, Sebastiano Coglitore
Abstract: Introduction: Myocarditis is an acquired primary cardiomyopathy due to viral inflammation. Despite the simplicity of this definition, the management, diagnosis, treatment as well the eventua...
Cardiovascular imaging in aortic disease. Multimodality approach in clinical practice
09 April 2012
Arturo Evangelista, Gisela Teixido, Amelia Carro, Sergio Moral, Domenico Gruosso, Laura Gutierrez, José Rodríguez-Palomares, Teresa González-Alujas
Abstract: Introduction: In the last decade, remarkable advances have been made in noninvasive imaging of aortic diseases. The aim of this article was to provide a comprehensive review of these imaging...

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