Myocardial wall Doppler imaging

Risk Factors for Survival After Heart Transplantation in Children and Young Adults: A 22-Year Study of 179 Transplants

“…This protocol for patients with high PRA has been shown to lead to a significant decrease in PRA after desensitization. 5 Rejection surveillance was conducted by echocardiography, with the timing of right ventricular endomyocardial biopsies guided by echocardiographic findings, as previously described, [6][7][8][9][10] and protocol-timed biopsies. Echocardiographic surveillance of systolic and diastolic function predicts biopsy abnormalities and decreases the number of cardiac catheterizations.…”

Rescue cardiac transplantation for failing staged palliation in patients with hypoplastic left heart syndrome

“…Rejection surveillance is conducted by echocardiography and echocardiographically-directed endomyocardial biopsy, as previously described by our group and others. [8][9][10][11][12] Echocardiographic surveillance of systolic and diastolic function predicts biopsy abnormalities and decreases the number of cardiac catheterizations. Biopsy is performed when the echocardiogram is suspicious for rejection.…”

Diastolic performance assessed by tissue Doppler after pediatric heart transplantation

“…11 To date, the predictive value of TDI-derived indices of diastolic performance in pediatric heart recipients has been reported only in preliminary form. 12 DiastvelLVPWmax, determined from digitized M-mode echocardiograms, has been reported to become abnormal in both pediatric and adult heart recipients with rejection. 13,14 M-mode-derived diastvelLVPWmax has been found to be a highly predictive index of endomyocardial biopsy scores Ն3.…”