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1. Full Text Assessment of Myocardial Mechanics Using Speckle Tracking Echocardiography: Fundamentals and Clinical Applications
by Geyer, Holly, MD and Caracciolo, Giuseppe, MD and Abe, Haruhiko, MD and Wilansky, Susan, MD and Carerj, Scipione, MD and Gentile, Federico, MD and Nesser, Hans-Joachim, MD, FESC, FACC, FASE and Khandheria, Bijoy, MBBS, FACC, FASE, FESC and Narula, Jagat, MBBS, MD, DM, PhD, FACC, FAHA and Sengupta, Partho P., MBBS, MD, DM
Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, ISSN 0894-7317, 2010, Volume 23, Issue 4, pp. 351 - 369
The authors summarize the recent developments in speckle-tracking echocardiography (STE), a relatively new technique that can be used in conjunction with... 
Cardiovascular | Velocity Vector Imaging | Left ventricular deformation | Speckle tracking | Strain | GLOBAL LONGITUDINAL STRAIN | CARDIAC & CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS | IDIOPATHIC DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY | LEFT-VENTRICULAR TORSION | ULTRASONIC PIXEL TRACKING | CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY | NORMAL EJECTION FRACTION | HEART-FAILURE PATIENTS | 2-DIMENSIONAL SPECKLE | AORTIC-VALVE-REPLACEMENT | CORONARY-ARTERY-DISEASE | Humans | Echocardiography - methods | Heart Diseases - diagnostic imaging | Usage | Health care reform | Medical care, Cost of | Index Medicus
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2. Full Text Classification and Prognostic Evaluation of Left Ventricular Remodeling in Patients with Asymptomatic Heart Failure
by Pugliese, Nicola Riccardo, MD and Fabiani, Iacopo, MD and La Carrubba, Salvatore, MD and Conte, Lorenzo, MD and Antonini-Canterin, Francesco, MD and Colonna, Paolo, MD and Caso, Pio, MD and Benedetto, Frank, MD and Santini, Veronica, MD and Carerj, Scipione, MD and Romano, Maria Francesca and Citro, Rodolfo, MD and Di Bello, Vitantonio, MD and Italian Soc Cardiovascular Echogra and Italian Society of Cardiovascular Echography (SIEC)
American Journal of Cardiology, The, ISSN 0002-9149, 2016, Volume 119, Issue 1, pp. 71 - 77
Abstract Patients with asymptomatic Heart Failure (HF; Stage A and B) are characterized by maladaptive left ventricular (LV) remodeling. Classic 4 groups... 
Cardiovascular | CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH | CARDIAC & CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS | RECOMMENDATIONS | DIASTOLIC FUNCTION | DISEASE | MASS | ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY | EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION | AMERICAN SOCIETY | EPIDEMIOLOGY | GEOMETRY | Echocardiography | Prognosis | Humans | Middle Aged | Risk Factors | Heart Failure - physiopathology | Kaplan-Meier Estimate | Female | Italy | Male | Ventricular Remodeling - physiology | Heart failure | Heart | Analysis | Cardiac patients | Risk factors | Heart attack | Electrocardiography | Cardiovascular disease | Blood pressure | Health risk assessment | Laboratories | Index Medicus | Abridged Index Medicus
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3. Full Text Usefulness of Combining Electrocardiographic and Echocardiographic Findings and Brain Natriuretic Peptide in Early Detection of Cardiac Amyloidosis in Subjects With Transthyretin Gene Mutation
by Di Bella, Gianluca, MD, PhD and Minutoli, Fabio, MD and Piaggi, Paolo, MS, PhD and Casale, Matteo, MD and Mazzeo, Anna, MD and Zito, Concetta, MD, PhD and Oreto, Giuseppe, MD and Baldari, Sergio, MD and Vita, Giuseppe, MD and Pingitore, Alessandro, MD, PhD and Khandheria, Bijoy K., MD and Carerj, Scipione, MD
American Journal of Cardiology, The, ISSN 0002-9149, 2015, Volume 116, Issue 7, pp. 1122 - 1127
Early noninvasive identification of cardiac amyloidosis (CA) is of growing clinical importance. Low voltage on electrocardiogram (ECG), increased left... 
Cardiovascular | HEART | DIAGNOSIS | POLYNEUROPATHY | CARDIAC & CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS | INTERNATIONAL-SOCIETY | OF-CARDIOLOGY | RECOMMENDATIONS | DIASTOLIC FUNCTION | INVOLVEMENT | SCINTIGRAPHY | COMMITTEE | Prealbumin - genetics | Echocardiography | Follow-Up Studies | Humans | Middle Aged | Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon | Amyloidosis - diagnosis | Male | DNA - genetics | Heart Diseases - diagnosis | Prealbumin - metabolism | DNA Mutational Analysis | Amyloidosis - genetics | Electrocardiography | Adult | Female | Whole Body Imaging | Aged | Mutation | Early Diagnosis | Heart Diseases - genetics | Natriuretic Peptide, Brain - blood | Brain research | Gene mutations | Analysis | Genes | Electrocardiogram | Amyloidosis | Genetic aspects | Natriuretic peptides | Proteins | Heart rate | Heart attacks | Disease | Population | Index Medicus | Abridged Index Medicus
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4. Full Text Prognostic Significance of Valvuloarterial Impedance and Left Ventricular Longitudinal Function in Asymptomatic Severe Aortic Stenosis Involving Three-Cuspid Valves
by Zito, Concetta, MD, PhD and Salvia, Josephal, MD, PhD and Cusmà-Piccione, Maurizio, MD and Antonini-Canterin, Francesco, MD and Lentini, Salvatore, MD and Oreto, Giuseppe, MD and Di Bella, Gianluca, MD, PhD and Montericcio, Vincenzo, MD and Carerj, Scipione, MD
American Journal of Cardiology, The, ISSN 0002-9149, 2011, Volume 108, Issue 10, pp. 1463 - 1469
The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the role of left ventricular global afterload and various echocardiographic parameters of systolic function in... 
Cardiovascular | HEART | NONINVASIVE ESTIMATION | PRESSURE | AFTERLOAD | IMPACT | CARDIAC & CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS | ARTERIAL COMPLIANCE | PRESERVED EJECTION FRACTION | SYSTEMIC HYPERTENSION | DEFORMATION | FLOW | Severity of Illness Index | Multivariate Analysis | Prognosis | Prospective Studies | Aortic Valve - diagnostic imaging | Humans | Myocardial Contraction - physiology | Aortic Valve Stenosis - physiopathology | Stroke Volume - physiology | Male | Aortic Valve Stenosis - diagnostic imaging | Systole - physiology | Ultrasonography | Female | ROC Curve | Ventricular Function, Left - physiology | Aged | Fainting | Analysis | Aortic valve stenosis | Cardiovascular disease | Regression analysis | Cardiology | Coronary vessels | Index Medicus | Abridged Index Medicus
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5. Full Text Diastolic dysfunction evaluated by cardiac magnetic resonance: the value of the combined assessment of atrial and ventricular function
by Aquaro, Giovanni Donato and Pizzino, Fausto and Terrizzi, Anna and Carerj, Scipione and Khandheria, Bijoy K and Di Bella, Gianluca
European Radiology, ISSN 0938-7994, 03/2019, Volume 29, Issue 3, pp. 1555 - 1564
ObjectivesWe sought to evaluate the role of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) in the evaluation of diastolic function by a combined assessment of left... 
Heart failure | Physiology: atrial function | Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy | Diastole | Magnetic resonance | FIBRILLATION | MORTALITY | HEART-FAILURE | RISK | PRESERVED EJECTION FRACTION | EXERCISE | HOSPITALIZATION | RADIOLOGY, NUCLEAR MEDICINE & MEDICAL IMAGING | Echocardiography | Area Under Curve | Humans | Middle Aged | Heart Failure - physiopathology | Male | Heart Atria - diagnostic imaging | Ventricular Dysfunction, Left - diagnostic imaging | Ventricular Dysfunction, Left - physiopathology | Magnetic Resonance Imaging | Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic - physiopathology | Pulmonary Veins - physiology | Atrial Function, Left | Adult | Female | ROC Curve | Aged | Heart Atria - physiopathology | Evaluation | Stability | Lung | Emptying | Patients | Image acquisition | Confidence intervals | Ultrasonic imaging | Magnetic resonance imaging | Resonance | Ventricle | Cardiology | Ejection | Index Medicus
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6. Full Text Myocardial Deformation and Rotational Profiles in Mitral Valve Prolapse
by Zito, Concetta, MD, PhD and Carerj, Scipione, MD and Todaro, Maria Chiara, MD and Cusmà-Piccione, Maurizio, MD and Caprino, Alessandra, MD and Di Bella, Gianluca, MD, PhD and Oreto, Lilia, MD and Oreto, Giuseppe, MD and Khandheria, Bijoy K., MD
American Journal of Cardiology, The, ISSN 0002-9149, 2013, Volume 112, Issue 7, pp. 984 - 990
We studied whether evaluation of overall left ventricular (LV) and left atrial (LA) mechanics would be useful to detect subclinical dysfunction in patients... 
Cardiovascular | FIBROSIS | EUROPEAN-ASSOCIATION | MECHANICS | CARDIAC & CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS | LEFT-VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION | RECOMMENDATIONS | DETERMINANTS | REGURGITATION | DISEASE | TORSION | SPECKLE-TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY | Severity of Illness Index | Prospective Studies | Ventricular Function, Left | Humans | Middle Aged | Mitral Valve Prolapse - diagnostic imaging | Mitral Valve Prolapse - complications | Male | Asymptomatic Diseases | Echocardiography, Doppler, Color | Heart Atria - diagnostic imaging | Heart Ventricles - diagnostic imaging | Rotation | Case-Control Studies | Aged, 80 and over | Mitral Valve Insufficiency - complications | Adult | Female | Aged | Mitral Valve Insufficiency - diagnostic imaging | Medical colleges | Mitral valve prolapse | Analysis | Cardiac patients | Heart | Confidence intervals | Variables | Deformation | Pulmonary arteries | Rodents | Mechanics | Family medical history | Cardiology | Age | Index Medicus | Abridged Index Medicus
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7. Full Text Usefulness of Left Atrial Reservoir Size and Left Ventricular Untwisting Rate for Predicting Outcome in Primary Mitral Regurgitation
by Zito, Concetta, MD, PhD and Manganaro, Roberta, MD and Khandheria, Bijoy, MD and Oreto, Giuseppe, MD and Cusmà-Piccione, Maurizio, MD, PhD and Todaro, Maria Chiara, MD and Caprino, Alessandra, MD and Pugliatti, Pietro, MD, PhD and Di Bella, Gianluca, MD, PhD and Carerj, Scipione, MD
American Journal of Cardiology, The, ISSN 0002-9149, 2015, Volume 116, Issue 8, pp. 1237 - 1244
The present study proposed to evaluate whether analysis of cardiac mechanics through speckle-tracking imaging is useful for risk stratification in asymptomatic... 
Cardiovascular | MECHANICS | CARDIAC & CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS | EARLY IDENTIFICATION | RECOMMENDATIONS | TORSION DYNAMICS | VALVE-PROLAPSE | MYOCARDIAL DEFORMATION | DYSFUNCTION | SPECKLE-TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY | STRAIN | ASSOCIATION | Severity of Illness Index | Predictive Value of Tests | Reproducibility of Results | Prognosis | Prospective Studies | Follow-Up Studies | Risk Assessment | Humans | Middle Aged | Male | Asymptomatic Diseases | Mitral Valve Insufficiency - mortality | Mitral Valve Insufficiency - diagnosis | Sensitivity and Specificity | Atrial Function, Left - physiology | Adult | Female | Ventricular Function, Left - physiology | Aged | Mitral Valve Insufficiency - physiopathology | Heart failure | Medical colleges | Mitral valve insufficiency | Ultrasonic imaging | Disease | Values | Mechanics | Standard deviation | Family medical history | Cardiology | Multivariate analysis | Index Medicus | Abridged Index Medicus
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8. Full Text 2016 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure: The Task Force for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). Developed with the special contribution of the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the ESC
by Ponikowski, Piotr and Voors, Aiaan A and Anker, Stefan D and Bueno, Hector and Cleland, John G. F and Coats, Anew J. S and Falk, Volkmar and Gonzalez-Juanatey, Jose Ramon and Harjola, Veli-Pekka and Jankowska, Ewa A and Jessup, Mariell and Linde, Cecilia and Nihoyannopoulos, Petros and Parissis, John T and Pieske, Burkert and Riley, Jillian P and Rosano, Giuseppe M. C and Ruilope, Luis M and Ruschitzka, Frank and Rutten, Frans H and van der Meer, Peter and Filippatos, Gerasimos and McMurray, John J. V and Aboyans, Victor and Achenbach, Stephan and Agewall, Stefan and Al-Attar, Nawwar and Atherton, John James and Bauersachs, Johann and Camm, A. John and Carerj, Scipione and Ceconi, Claudio and Coca, Antonio and Elliott, Perry and Erol, Cetin and Ezekowitz, Justin and Fernandez-Golfin, Covadonga and Fitzsimons, Donna and Guazzi, Marco and Authors/Task Force Members and Document Reviewers
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE, ISSN 1388-9842, 08/2016, Volume 18, Issue 8, pp. 891 - 975
Heart failure | Pharmacotherapy | Hospitalization | Transplantation | Cardiac resynchronization therapy | Guidelines | Neuro-hormonal antagonists | Multidisciplinary management | Co-morbidities | Mechanical circulatory support | Diagnosis | Arrhythmias | Ejection fraction | Natriuretic peptides | CARDIAC & CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS | CARDIAC-RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY | PRESERVED EJECTION FRACTION | LEFT-VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION | ACUTE MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION | QUALITY-OF-LIFE | CONVERTING-ENZYME-INHIBITORS | OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY-DISEASE | IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER-DEFIBRILLATOR | POSITIVE AIRWAY PRESSURE | CORONARY-ARTERY-DISEASE | Stroke Volume | Cardiovascular Agents - therapeutic use | Heart Failure - complications | Heart Failure - therapy | Acute Disease | Cardiac Imaging Techniques | Humans | Assisted Circulation | Heart Transplantation | Heart Failure - diagnosis | Chronic Disease | Heart Function Tests | Index Medicus
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9. Full Text 2016 ESC Guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation developed in collaboration with EACTS
by Kirchhof, Paulus and Benussi, Stefano and Kotecha, Dipak and Ahlsson, Anders and Atar, Dan and Casadei, Barbara and Castella, Manuel and Diener, Hans-Christoph and Heidbuchel, Hein and Heniks, Jeroen and Hinicks, Gerhard and Manolis, Antonis S and Oldgren, Jonas and Popescu, Bogdan Alexanu and Schotten, Ulrich and Van Putte, Bart and Vardas, Panagiotis and ESC and ESC Scientific Document Group
European Heart Journal, ISSN 0195-668X, 10/2016, Volume 37, Issue 38, pp. 2893 - 2962
Rhythm control | Antiarrhythmic drugs | Atrial fibrillation | Catheter ablation | Vitamin K antagonists | Cardioversion | Left atrial appendage occlusion | Anticoagulation | Upstream therapy | Guidelines | Rate control | Left atrial ablation | AF surgery | Non-Vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants | Valve repair | Pulmonary vein isolation | OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP-APNEA | CARDIAC & CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS | QUALITY-OF-LIFE | TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK | VITAMIN-K ANTAGONISTS | WOLFF-PARKINSON-WHITE | RADIOFREQUENCY CATHETER ABLATION | ANTIARRHYTHMIC-DRUG THERAPY | Non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants | PULMONARY-VEIN ISOLATION | POLYUNSATURATED FATTY-ACIDS | LONG-QT-SYNDROME | Index Medicus
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