List of works - Namsik Chung

A randomized, open-label study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of pitavastatin compared with simvastatin in Korean patients with hypercholesterolemia.

scientific article

Abnormal left ventricular longitudinal functional reserve in patients with diabetes mellitus: implication for detecting subclinical myocardial dysfunction using exercise tissue Doppler echocardiography.

scientific article

Abnormal longitudinal myocardial functional reserve assessed by exercise tissue Doppler echocardiography in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

scientific article published on 01 November 2006

Abnormal myocardial capillary density in apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy can be assessed by myocardial contrast echocardiography.

scientific article published on 31 August 2010

Adverse effects of left ventricular electrical dyssynchrony on cardiac reverse remodeling and prognosis after aortic valve surgery

scientific article published on 05 May 2018

Aortic valve avulsion: uncommon complication of coronary angiography

scientific article published on 01 July 2012

Are electrocardiographic changes in patients with acute subarachnoid hemorrhage associated with Takotsubo cardiomyopathy?

scientific article published on 7 November 2009

Assessment of mechanical properties of common carotid artery in Takayasu's arteritis using velocity vector imaging.

scientific article published on 20 April 2010

Assessment of tissue characteristics of noncalcified coronary plaques by 64-slice computed tomography in comparison with integrated backscatter intravascular ultrasound.

scientific article published in May 2010

Association of aortic phenotypes and mechanical function with left ventricular diastolic function in subjects with normally functioning bicuspid aortic valves and comparison to subjects with tricuspid aortic valves.

scientific article published in September 2015

Association of plasma retinol-binding protein 4, adiponectin, and high molecular weight adiponectin with insulin resistance in non-diabetic hypertensive patients

scientific article

Asynchronous arterial systolic expansion as a marker of vascular aging: assessment of the carotid artery with velocity vector imaging

scientific article published on 01 December 2011

Automated quantification of left atrial size using three-beat averaging real-time three dimensional Echocardiography in patients with atrial fibrillation

scientific article

Automatic quantification of aortic regurgitation using 3D full volume color doppler echocardiography: a validation study with cardiac magnetic resonance imaging.

scientific article published on 12 July 2015

Can pro-brain natriuretic peptide be used as a noninvasive predictor of elevated left ventricular diastolic pressures in patients with normal systolic function?

scientific article published on 01 December 2005

Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging-derived pulmonary artery distensibility index correlates with pulmonary artery stiffness and predicts functional capacity in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension

scientific article published on 15 July 2011

Cardiac magnetic resonance-derived right ventricular outflow tract systolic flow acceleration: a novel index of right ventricular function and prognosis in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension

scientific article published on 17 July 2013

Central aortic stiffness and its association with ascending aorta dilation in subjects with a bicuspid aortic valve.

scientific article

Characteristics of Carotid Artery Structure and Mechanical Function and Their Relationships with Aortopathy in Patients with Bicuspid Aortic Valves

scientific article published on 28 August 2017

Clinical Implications and Determinants of Left Atrial Mechanical Dysfunction in Patients With Stroke.

scientific article published on 3 May 2016

Clinical Implications of Three-Dimensional Real-Time Color Doppler Transthoracic Echocardiography in Quantifying Mitral Regurgitation: A Comparison with Conventional Two-Dimensional Methods

scientific article published on 23 February 2017

Clinical and echocardiographic predictors of outcomes in patients with apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

scientific article published on 03 September 2011

Combination of a peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma agonist and an angiotensin II receptor blocker attenuates myocardial fibrosis and dysfunction in type 2 diabetic rats

scientific article published on 7 November 2013

Comparison of effects of drug-eluting stents versus bare metal stents on plasma C-reactive protein levels.

scientific article published on 27 September 2005

Comparison of long-term outcome after mitral valve replacement or repeated balloon mitral valvotomy in patients with restenosis after previous balloon valvotomy

scientific article published on 16 April 2007

Coronary sinus obstruction by primary cardiac lymphoma as a cause of dyspnea due to significant diastolic dysfunction and elevated filling pressures.

scientific article published on 3 December 2009

Correlation between myocardial perfusion abnormalities detected with intermittent imaging using intravenous perfluorocarbon microbubbles and radioisotope imaging during high-dose dipyridamole stress echo

scientific article published in March 2002

Deceleration time of left ventricular outflow tract flow as a simple surrogate marker for central haemodynamics at rest and as well as during exercise.

scientific article published on 25 May 2016

Delayed enhancement magnetic resonance imaging is a significant prognostic factor in patients with non-ischemic cardiomyopathy.

scientific article

Delayed hyperenhancement magnetic resonance imaging is useful in predicting functional recovery of nonischemic left ventricular systolic dysfunction.

scientific article

Determinants and Prognostic Significance of Symptomatic Status in Patients with Moderately Dysfunctional Bicuspid Aortic Valves

scientific article

Differences in Characteristics, Left Atrial Reverse Remodeling, and Functional Outcomes after Mitral Valve Replacement in Patients with Low-Gradient Very Severe Mitral Stenosis

scientific article

Differences in left ventricular functional adaptation to arterial stiffness and neurohormonal activation in patients with hypertension: a study with two-dimensional layer-specific speckle tracking echocardiography

scientific article published on 2 November 2017

Differential Impact of Constrictive Physiology after Pericardiocentesis in Malignancy Patients with Pericardial Effusion

scientific article published on 21 December 2015

Dyssynchronous systolic expansion of carotid artery in patients with marfan syndrome.

scientific article published on 29 September 2010

Effect of End-Stage Renal Disease on Rate of Progression of Aortic Stenosis

scientific article published on 5 April 2016

Effects of pericardiectomy on early diastolic mitral annular velocity in patients with constrictive pericarditis.

scientific article published on 29 January 2008

Efficacy and safety profiles of a new S(-)-amlodipine nicotinate formulation versus racemic amlodipine besylate in adult Korean patients with mild to moderate hypertension: an 8-week, multicenter, randomized, double-blind, double-dummy, parallel-gro

scientific article published in May 2008

Endothelial nitric oxide synthase Glu298Asp gene polymorphism is associated with hypertensive response to exercise in well-controlled hypertensive patients.

scientific article published on June 2007

Exaggerated blood pressure response to exercise is associated with augmented rise of angiotensin II during exercise.

scientific article published in July 2008

Extent of late gadolinium enhancement in cardiovascular magnetic resonance and its relation with left ventricular diastolic function in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

scientific article published on 01 September 2008

Fabry disease in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: a practical approach to diagnosis

scientific article published on 26 May 2016

Factors Determining Aortic Valve Dysfunction in Korean Subjects With a Bicuspid Aortic Valve

scientific article published on 29 March 2017

Fate of collateral circulation after successful coronary angioplasty of total occlusion assessed by coronary angiography and myocardial contrast echocardiography

scientific article published on 01 May 2002

Feasibility of an automatic computer-assisted algorithm for the detection of significant coronary artery disease in patients presenting with acute chest pain

scientific article

Gender-related difference in arterial elastance during exercise in patients with hypertension

scientific article published on 07 February 2008

Gender-related difference in left ventricular diastolic elastance during exercise in patients with diabetes mellitus.

scientific article published in September 2008

Genetic polymorphism in the pregnancy-associated plasma protein-A associated with acute myocardial infarction

scientific article published on 01 September 2007

Images in cardiovascular medicine. Constrictive epicarditis as an unusual cause of constrictive physiology: typical presentation with unusual pathology

scientific article published on 01 May 2005

Impact of Ambulatory Blood Pressure on Early Cardiac and Renal Dysfunction in Hypertensive Patients without Clinically Apparent Target Organ Damage

scientific article published in March 2018

Impact of D-Dimer for Prediction of Incident Occult Cancer in Patients with Unprovoked Venous Thromboembolism ⬇️

scientific article

Impact of atorvastatin treatment in first-degree relatives of patients with premature coronary artery disease with endothelial dysfunction: a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled crossover trial.

scientific article published on 10 June 2013

Impact of central haemodynamics on left ventricular function in individuals with an exaggerated blood pressure response to exercise

scientific article published on 01 March 2015

Impact of coronary artery collaterals on infarct size assessed by serial cardiac magnetic resonance imaging after primary percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with acute myocardial infarction.

scientific article

Impact of left ventricular longitudinal diastolic functional reserve on clinical outcome in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

scientific article published on 07 June 2011

Impact of serum calcium and phosphate on coronary atherosclerosis detected by cardiac computed tomography

scientific article published on 19 June 2012

Incidence, Predictors, and Clinical Outcomes of Postoperative Cardiac Tamponade in Patients Undergoing Heart Valve Surgery.

scientific article

Incremental Value of Left Atrial Global Longitudinal Strain for Prediction of Post Stroke Atrial Fibrillation in Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke.

scientific article published on 24 March 2016

Incremental predictive value of carotid arterial strain in patients with stroke

scientific article published on 11 January 2018

Incremental value of combining systolic mitral annular velocity and time difference between mitral inflow and diastolic mitral annular velocity to early diastolic annular velocity for differentiating constrictive pericarditis from restrictive cardio

scientific article published in June 2007

Incremental value of left ventricular diastolic function reserve index for predicting exercise capacity in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

scientific article published on 29 September 2007

Incremental value of measuring the time difference between onset of mitral inflow and onset of early diastolic mitral annulus velocity for the evaluation of left ventricular diastolic pressures in patients with normal systolic function and an indete

scientific article

Insulin resistance is associated with hypertensive response to exercise in non-diabetic hypertensive patients.

scientific article published on 4 January 2006

Is albuminuria an indicator of myocardial dysfunction in diabetic patients without overt heart disease? A study with Doppler strain and strain rate imaging.

scientific article

Is prophylactic aortic valve replacement indicated during mitral valve surgery for mild to moderate aortic valve disease?

scientific article published on 01 October 2002

Isolated noncompaction of the ventricular myocardium: contrast echocardiographic findings and review of the literature.

scientific article

Left Atrial Volume as a Predictor of Left Ventricular Functional Recovery in Patients With Dilated Cardiomyopathy and Absence of Delayed Enhancement in Cardiac Magnetic Resonance.

scientific article published on 14 December 2015

Left atrial volume index as a predictor for persistent left ventricular dysfunction after aortic valve surgery in patients with chronic aortic regurgitation: the role of early postoperative echocardiography

scientific article published on 24 September 2014

Left atrial volume index: a predictor of adverse outcome in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

scientific article published on 30 October 2009

Left ventricular remodeling can be predicted with left ventricular volume response during dobutamine echocardiography after acute myocardial infarction

scientific article published in June 2008

Long-term clinical results of mitral valvuloplasty using flexible and rigid rings: a prospective and randomized study.

scientific article published on 22 February 2007

Magnitude of left atrial V wave is the determinant of exercise capacity in patients with mitral stenosis.

scientific article

Mechanism of mitral regurgitation in the acute phase of inferior wall myocardial infarction: reduced closing force as a consequence of left ventricular systolic dysfunction in the presence of tethering as a determinant of mitral regurgitation

scientific article published on 08 January 2011

Non-dippers are associated with adverse cardiac remodeling and dysfunction (R1)

scientific article published on 28 November 2005

Noncompaction of the ventricular myocardium combined with polycystic kidney disease.

scientific article published on May 2006

Optimal pharmacologic approach to patients with hypertriglyceridemia and low high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol: randomized comparison of fenofibrate 160 mg and niacin 1500 mg.

scientific article published on 19 September 2010

Overweight and its association with aortic pressure wave reflection after exercise.

scientific article published on 11 August 2011

Passive leg-raise is helpful to identify impaired diastolic functional reserve during exercise in patients with abnormal myocardial relaxation.

scientific article published on 11 March 2010

Patterns of late gadolinium enhancement are associated with ventricular stiffness in patients with advanced non-ischaemic dilated cardiomyopathy

scientific article published on 21 April 2009

Plasma adiponectin and resistin levels as predictors of mortality in patients with acute myocardial infarction: data from infarction prognosis study registry.

scientific article

Post-operative left atrial volume index is a predictor of the occurrence of permanent atrial fibrillation after mitral valve surgery in patients who undergo mitral valve surgery

scientific article published on 9 March 2018

Prediction of hemorrhagic transformation following embolic stroke in patients with prosthetic valve endocarditis.

scientific article published on 30 September 2013

Prediction of transmural extent of infarction with contrast echocardiographically derived index of myocardial blood flow and myocardial blood volume fraction: comparison with contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging.

scientific article published in October 2006

Predictors of prognosis in patients with mild to moderate paravalvular leakage after mitral valve replacement.

scientific article published on March 2014

Prognostic Estimation of Advanced Heart Failure With Low Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction and Wide QRS Interval.

scientific article published on 31 October 2012

Prognostic value of N-terminal probrain natriuretic peptide level on admission in patients with acute myocardial infarction and preserved left ventricular ejection fraction

scientific article published on 01 May 2011

Prosthesis-Patient Mismatch after Mitral Valve Replacement: Comparison of Different Methods of Effective Orifice Area Calculation

scientific article published on March 2016

Pulmonary venous flow in pure mitral stenosis and sinus rhythm--does pulmonary hypertension alter pulmonary venous flow velocity?

scientific article published on 01 February 2003

Rationale and design of the Progression of AtheRosclerotic PlAque DetermIned by Computed TomoGraphic Angiography IMaging (PARADIGM) registry: A comprehensive exploration of plaque progression and its impact on clinical outcomes from a multicenter se

scientific article published on 22 September 2016

Recovery and recurrence of left ventricular systolic dysfunction in patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy.

scientific article published on May 2009

Relation of inflammation and left atrial remodeling in atrial fibrillation occurring in early phase of acute myocardial infarction

scientific article published on 30 June 2009

Relationship between Myocardial Extracellular Space Expansion Estimated with Post-Contrast T1 Mapping MRI and Left Ventricular Remodeling and Neurohormonal Activation in Patients with Dilated Cardiomyopathy.

scientific article

Right ventricular remodeling and dysfunction with subsequent annular dilatation and tethering as a mechanism of isolated tricuspid regurgitation.

scientific article published on 27 August 2008

Safety and cost-effectiveness of bridge therapies for invasive dental procedures in patients with mechanical heart valves.

scientific article

Selective Referral Using CCTA Versus Direct Referral for Individuals Referred to Invasive Coronary Angiography for Suspected CAD: A Randomized, Controlled, Open-Label Trial

scientific article published on 12 December 2018

Sex differences in central hemodynamics and their relationship to left ventricular diastolic function.

scientific article published in March 2011

Soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase-1 and the progression of carotid intima-media thickness – 24-month follow-up study –.

scientific article published on 3 August 2010

Spontaneous rupture of a papillary muscle

scientific article published on 01 May 2013

Statin Intensity and Clinical Outcome in Patients with Stable Coronary Artery Disease and Very Low LDL-Cholesterol

scientific article

The case of isolated double atrial septum with persistent interatrial space

scientific article published on 27 December 2013

The clopidogrel resistance can be attenuated with triple antiplatelet therapy in patients undergoing drug-eluting stents implantation.

scientific article published on 24 June 2008

The incidence and clinical outcome of constrictive physiology after coronary artery bypass graft surgery

scientific article published on 21 March 2013

The prevalence and clinical predictors of atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis in patients undergoing coronary angiography.

scientific article

The utility of multi-detector row spiral CT for detection of coronary artery stenoses.

scientific article

Time course of left atrial reverse remodelling after mitral valve surgery and the impact of left ventricular global longitudinal strain in patients with chronic severe mitral regurgitation.

scientific article published on 5 September 2016

Time course of recovery of left ventricular filling pressure after exercise in healthy subjects

scientific article published on 01 February 2008

Transient apical wall thickening in patients with stress cardiomyopathy: Prevalence, profile, and impact on clinical course.

scientific article published on 19 May 2015

Transient right ventricular dysfunction after pericardiectomy in patients with constrictive pericarditis.

scientific article published on 31 May 2011

Tricuspid regurgitation duration correlates with cardiovascular magnetic resonance-derived right ventricular ejection fraction and predict prognosis in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension

scientific article published on 22 May 2013

Uncommon variation in the papillary muscles presenting with ST elevation and T-wave inversion

scientific article published on 08 May 2008

Value of echo-Doppler derived pulmonary vascular resistance, net-atrioventricular compliance and tricuspid annular velocity in determining exercise capacity in patients with mitral stenosis

scientific article published on 01 November 2007

Vanishing asymmetric septal hypertrophy in a patient with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy

scientific article published on 01 May 2011

Vena contracta width as a predictor of adverse outcomes in patients with severe isolated tricuspid regurgitation.

scientific article published on 5 August 2011

Visceral adiposity and the severity of coronary artery disease in middle-aged subjects with normal waist circumference and its relation with lipocalin-2 and MCP-1

scientific article published on 19 September 2010

Visceral obesity of the heart: extensive lipomatous hypertrophy of interatrial septum

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List of works by Namsik Chung

A randomized, open-label study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of pitavastatin compared with simvastatin in Korean patients with hypercholesterolemia.

Abnormal left ventricular longitudinal functional reserve in patients with diabetes mellitus: implication for detecting subclinical myocardial dysfunction using exercise tissue Doppler echocardiography.

Abnormal longitudinal myocardial functional reserve assessed by exercise tissue Doppler echocardiography in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Abnormal myocardial capillary density in apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy can be assessed by myocardial contrast echocardiography.

Adverse effects of left ventricular electrical dyssynchrony on cardiac reverse remodeling and prognosis after aortic valve surgery

Aortic valve avulsion: uncommon complication of coronary angiography

Are electrocardiographic changes in patients with acute subarachnoid hemorrhage associated with Takotsubo cardiomyopathy?

Assessment of mechanical properties of common carotid artery in Takayasu's arteritis using velocity vector imaging.

Assessment of tissue characteristics of noncalcified coronary plaques by 64-slice computed tomography in comparison with integrated backscatter intravascular ultrasound.

Association of aortic phenotypes and mechanical function with left ventricular diastolic function in subjects with normally functioning bicuspid aortic valves and comparison to subjects with tricuspid aortic valves.

Association of plasma retinol-binding protein 4, adiponectin, and high molecular weight adiponectin with insulin resistance in non-diabetic hypertensive patients

Asynchronous arterial systolic expansion as a marker of vascular aging: assessment of the carotid artery with velocity vector imaging

Automated quantification of left atrial size using three-beat averaging real-time three dimensional Echocardiography in patients with atrial fibrillation

Automatic quantification of aortic regurgitation using 3D full volume color doppler echocardiography: a validation study with cardiac magnetic resonance imaging.

Can pro-brain natriuretic peptide be used as a noninvasive predictor of elevated left ventricular diastolic pressures in patients with normal systolic function?

Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging-derived pulmonary artery distensibility index correlates with pulmonary artery stiffness and predicts functional capacity in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension

Cardiac magnetic resonance-derived right ventricular outflow tract systolic flow acceleration: a novel index of right ventricular function and prognosis in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension

Central aortic stiffness and its association with ascending aorta dilation in subjects with a bicuspid aortic valve.

Characteristics of Carotid Artery Structure and Mechanical Function and Their Relationships with Aortopathy in Patients with Bicuspid Aortic Valves

Clinical Implications and Determinants of Left Atrial Mechanical Dysfunction in Patients With Stroke.

Clinical Implications of Three-Dimensional Real-Time Color Doppler Transthoracic Echocardiography in Quantifying Mitral Regurgitation: A Comparison with Conventional Two-Dimensional Methods

Clinical and echocardiographic predictors of outcomes in patients with apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Combination of a peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma agonist and an angiotensin II receptor blocker attenuates myocardial fibrosis and dysfunction in type 2 diabetic rats

Comparison of effects of drug-eluting stents versus bare metal stents on plasma C-reactive protein levels.

Comparison of long-term outcome after mitral valve replacement or repeated balloon mitral valvotomy in patients with restenosis after previous balloon valvotomy

Coronary sinus obstruction by primary cardiac lymphoma as a cause of dyspnea due to significant diastolic dysfunction and elevated filling pressures.

Correlation between myocardial perfusion abnormalities detected with intermittent imaging using intravenous perfluorocarbon microbubbles and radioisotope imaging during high-dose dipyridamole stress echo

Deceleration time of left ventricular outflow tract flow as a simple surrogate marker for central haemodynamics at rest and as well as during exercise.

Delayed enhancement magnetic resonance imaging is a significant prognostic factor in patients with non-ischemic cardiomyopathy.

Delayed hyperenhancement magnetic resonance imaging is useful in predicting functional recovery of nonischemic left ventricular systolic dysfunction.

Determinants and Prognostic Significance of Symptomatic Status in Patients with Moderately Dysfunctional Bicuspid Aortic Valves

Differences in Characteristics, Left Atrial Reverse Remodeling, and Functional Outcomes after Mitral Valve Replacement in Patients with Low-Gradient Very Severe Mitral Stenosis

Differences in left ventricular functional adaptation to arterial stiffness and neurohormonal activation in patients with hypertension: a study with two-dimensional layer-specific speckle tracking echocardiography

Differential Impact of Constrictive Physiology after Pericardiocentesis in Malignancy Patients with Pericardial Effusion

Dyssynchronous systolic expansion of carotid artery in patients with marfan syndrome.

Effect of End-Stage Renal Disease on Rate of Progression of Aortic Stenosis

Effects of pericardiectomy on early diastolic mitral annular velocity in patients with constrictive pericarditis.

Efficacy and safety profiles of a new S(-)-amlodipine nicotinate formulation versus racemic amlodipine besylate in adult Korean patients with mild to moderate hypertension: an 8-week, multicenter, randomized, double-blind, double-dummy, parallel-gro

Endothelial nitric oxide synthase Glu298Asp gene polymorphism is associated with hypertensive response to exercise in well-controlled hypertensive patients.

Exaggerated blood pressure response to exercise is associated with augmented rise of angiotensin II during exercise.

Extent of late gadolinium enhancement in cardiovascular magnetic resonance and its relation with left ventricular diastolic function in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Fabry disease in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: a practical approach to diagnosis

Factors Determining Aortic Valve Dysfunction in Korean Subjects With a Bicuspid Aortic Valve

Fate of collateral circulation after successful coronary angioplasty of total occlusion assessed by coronary angiography and myocardial contrast echocardiography

Feasibility of an automatic computer-assisted algorithm for the detection of significant coronary artery disease in patients presenting with acute chest pain

Gender-related difference in arterial elastance during exercise in patients with hypertension

Gender-related difference in left ventricular diastolic elastance during exercise in patients with diabetes mellitus.

Genetic polymorphism in the pregnancy-associated plasma protein-A associated with acute myocardial infarction

Images in cardiovascular medicine. Constrictive epicarditis as an unusual cause of constrictive physiology: typical presentation with unusual pathology

Impact of Ambulatory Blood Pressure on Early Cardiac and Renal Dysfunction in Hypertensive Patients without Clinically Apparent Target Organ Damage

Impact of D-Dimer for Prediction of Incident Occult Cancer in Patients with Unprovoked Venous Thromboembolism ⬇️

Impact of atorvastatin treatment in first-degree relatives of patients with premature coronary artery disease with endothelial dysfunction: a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled crossover trial.

Impact of central haemodynamics on left ventricular function in individuals with an exaggerated blood pressure response to exercise

Impact of coronary artery collaterals on infarct size assessed by serial cardiac magnetic resonance imaging after primary percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with acute myocardial infarction.

Impact of left ventricular longitudinal diastolic functional reserve on clinical outcome in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

Impact of serum calcium and phosphate on coronary atherosclerosis detected by cardiac computed tomography

Incidence, Predictors, and Clinical Outcomes of Postoperative Cardiac Tamponade in Patients Undergoing Heart Valve Surgery.

Incremental Value of Left Atrial Global Longitudinal Strain for Prediction of Post Stroke Atrial Fibrillation in Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke.

Incremental predictive value of carotid arterial strain in patients with stroke

Incremental value of combining systolic mitral annular velocity and time difference between mitral inflow and diastolic mitral annular velocity to early diastolic annular velocity for differentiating constrictive pericarditis from restrictive cardio

Incremental value of left ventricular diastolic function reserve index for predicting exercise capacity in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Incremental value of measuring the time difference between onset of mitral inflow and onset of early diastolic mitral annulus velocity for the evaluation of left ventricular diastolic pressures in patients with normal systolic function and an indete

Insulin resistance is associated with hypertensive response to exercise in non-diabetic hypertensive patients.

Is albuminuria an indicator of myocardial dysfunction in diabetic patients without overt heart disease? A study with Doppler strain and strain rate imaging.

Is prophylactic aortic valve replacement indicated during mitral valve surgery for mild to moderate aortic valve disease?

Isolated noncompaction of the ventricular myocardium: contrast echocardiographic findings and review of the literature.

Left Atrial Volume as a Predictor of Left Ventricular Functional Recovery in Patients With Dilated Cardiomyopathy and Absence of Delayed Enhancement in Cardiac Magnetic Resonance.

Left atrial volume index as a predictor for persistent left ventricular dysfunction after aortic valve surgery in patients with chronic aortic regurgitation: the role of early postoperative echocardiography

Left atrial volume index: a predictor of adverse outcome in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Left ventricular remodeling can be predicted with left ventricular volume response during dobutamine echocardiography after acute myocardial infarction

Long-term clinical results of mitral valvuloplasty using flexible and rigid rings: a prospective and randomized study.

Magnitude of left atrial V wave is the determinant of exercise capacity in patients with mitral stenosis.

Mechanism of mitral regurgitation in the acute phase of inferior wall myocardial infarction: reduced closing force as a consequence of left ventricular systolic dysfunction in the presence of tethering as a determinant of mitral regurgitation

Non-dippers are associated with adverse cardiac remodeling and dysfunction (R1)

Noncompaction of the ventricular myocardium combined with polycystic kidney disease.

Optimal pharmacologic approach to patients with hypertriglyceridemia and low high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol: randomized comparison of fenofibrate 160 mg and niacin 1500 mg.

Overweight and its association with aortic pressure wave reflection after exercise.

Passive leg-raise is helpful to identify impaired diastolic functional reserve during exercise in patients with abnormal myocardial relaxation.

Patterns of late gadolinium enhancement are associated with ventricular stiffness in patients with advanced non-ischaemic dilated cardiomyopathy