Introduction: Focused cardiac ultrasound (FCU) has been proposed as a tool that narrows the diagnostic possibilities in critically ill patients. There is limited information on echocardiographic experience, optimal time ...

The basic cardiac ultrasound (ECB) is a useful tool in the Intensive Care Unit to facilitate the implementation of certain interventions. It is not defined the number of repetitions required to obtain an adequate level of ...

Introduction: Echocardiography is currently the diagnostic imaging technique more often used to evaluate cardiovascular anatomy and function. Nowadays speckle tracking echocardiography is being used, which allows a more ...

Background: Global longitudinal strain (GLS) is a useful tool for evaluation of rejection in Heart Transplant patients (HT-P). However, controversies exist regarding its accuracy and agreement among different vendors. ...

Introduction The left atrial appendage is a heart structure that facilitates the generation of thrombus within it, which favors the appearance of embolic events. Therefore, its analysis from bidimensional and more recent ...

A cross-sectional study, three residents not included cardiologists and were given basic training in echocardiography (theoretical hours 22 hours 65 practices), with recommendations of the American Society of Echocardiography ...

Introduction: Right heart catheterism represents the standard of reference to the diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension.Nevertheless the yield of echocardiography as initial study has showedgood correlation with some measures ...

Primary cardiac tumors are very rare. The reported prevalence ranges from 0.001% to 0.03%. Cardiac paragangliomas are among the most infrequent tumors, making up <1% of all primary cardiac tumors. They are chromaffin cell ...

The tricuspid valve is traditionally known as the forgotten valve because of the least importance in the published literature and clinical trials available until a few years ago. Echocardiography with its different imaging ...

Background: Coronay artery disease is the main cause of death in Colombia and worldwide in older than 45 years old (1, 2). With the change in the epidemiological profile is expected to increase the prevalence and cost, ...