James C. Dillon

Echocardiographic diagnosis of large fungal verruca attached to mitral valve.

The promise and challenge of therapeutic genome editing

The history of echocardiography

Hemodynamic importance of systolic ventricular interaction, augmented right atrial contractility and atrioventricular synchorny in acute right ventricular dysfunction

The prognostic importance of creatinine clearance after acute myocardial infarction

Systemic Sclerosis

Effects of the oral endothelin-receptorantagonist bosentan on echocardiographicand doppler measures in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension

Cardiac Troponin T in Patients With Clinically Suspected Myocarditis

Echocardiographic findings in myocarditis

Relation between Renal Dysfunction and Cardiovascular Outcomes after Myocardial Infarction

Normalization of Hemoglobin Level in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease and Anemia

A Clinical Trial of the Angiotensin-Converting–Enzyme Inhibitor Trandolapril in Patients with Left Ventricular Dysfunction after Myocardial Infarction

Percutaneous Closure of Patent Foramen Ovale in Cryptogenic Embolism

Circulating Endothelial Progenitor Cells and Cardiovascular Outcomes

Antithrombotic Therapy in Valvular Heart Disease

Valsartan, Captopril, or Both in Myocardial Infarction Complicated by Heart Failure, Left Ventricular Dysfunction, or Both

The β-Thalassemias

Treatment of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Echocardiographic Evaluation of Mitral Valve Structure and Function in Patients Followed for at Least 6 Months After Percutaneous Balloon Mitral Valvuloplasty

Effect of Captopril on Mortality and Morbidity in Patients with Left Ventricular Dysfunction after Myocardial Infarction

The Use of Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Identify Reversible Myocardial Dysfunction

The Spectrum of Dilated Cardiomyopathy: The Johns Hopkins Experience with 1,278 Patients

The relation between quantitative right ventricular ejection fraction and indices of tricuspid annular motion and myocardial performance

The right ventricle: anatomy, physiology, and clinical importance

The Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure<SUBTITLE>The JNC 7 Report</SUBTITLE>

Recommendations for Chamber Quantification: A Report from the American Society of Echocardiography’s Guidelines and Standards Committee and the Chamber Quantification Writing Group, Developed in Conjunction with the European Association of Echocardiography, a Branch of the European Society of Cardiology

The impact of ageing on right ventricular longitudinal function in healthy subjects: a pulsed tissue Doppler study

Percutaneous Repair or Surgery for Mitral Regurgitation

A Randomized, Controlled Trial of the Use of Pulmonary-Artery Catheters in High-Risk Surgical Patients

Cardiac-Resynchronization Therapy for the Prevention of Heart-Failure Events

Pseudonormalized doppler totalejection isovolume (Tei) index in patients with right ventricularacute myocardial infarction

Doppler echocardiographic demonstration of the differential effects of right ventricular pressure and volume overload on left ventricular geometry and filling

Primary pulmonary hypertension

Comparison of Several Noninvasive Methods for Estimation of Pulmonary Artery Pressure

Point-of-Care Ultrasonography

Primary Pulmonary Hypertension

Scleroderma

Echocardiography in infective endocarditis: Reassessment of prognostic implications of vegetation size determined by the transthoracic and the transesophageal approach

Two-dimensional and Doppler echocardiographic determinants of the natural history of mitral valve narrowing in patients with rheumatic mitral stenosis: Implications for follow-up

Fractional Flow Reserve versus Angiography for Guiding Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Antimyosin scintigraphy and immunohistologic analysis of endomyocardial biopsy in patients with clinically suspected myocarditis—evidence of myocardial cell damage and inflammation in the absence of histologic signs of myocarditis

Williams–Beuren Syndrome

Echocardiography in infective endocarditis

Balloon aortic valvuloplasty: Results of the Valvuloplasty and Angioplasty of Congenital Anomalies Registry

Infective endocarditis

Reduced atrial contribution to left ventricular filling in patients with severe tricuspid regurgitation after tricuspid valvulectomy: A Doppler echocardiographic study

Effects of Multisite Biventricular Pacing in Patients with Heart Failure and Intraventricular Conduction Delay

Bosentan Therapy for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Improvement in the Diagnosis of Abscesses Associated with Endocarditis by Transesophageal Echocardiography

Ventricular interdependence: Significant left ventricular contributions to right ventricular systolic function

Percutaneous Balloon Valvuloplasty

Effects of Iron Supplementation and Depletion on Hypoxic Pulmonary Hypertension

Echocardiographic Assessment of Right Ventricular Volume and Function

Regional Strain and Strain Rate Measurements by Cardiac Ultrasound: Principles, Implementation and Limitations

Comparison of echocardiographic methods with magnetic resonance imaging for assessment of right ventricular function in children

Echocardiographic predictors of adverse outcomes in primary pulmonary hypertension

Two-dimensional echocardiographic identification of complicated aortic root endocarditis: Implications for surgery

The echocardiographic assessment of the right ventricle: what to do in 2010?

Myocardial Reperfusion Injury

Echocardiographic Diagnosis of Mitral Valve Prolapse

Myocarditis

Cardiac Myxomas

A Randomized Trial of Intensive Lipid-Lowering Therapy in Calcific Aortic Stenosis

Antithrombotic Therapy in Valvular Heart Disease—Native and Prosthetic

Functional results 5 years after successful percutaneous mitral commissurotomy in a series of 528 patients and analysis of predictive factors

Everolimus for the Prevention of Allograft Rejection and Vasculopathy in Cardiac-Transplant Recipients

Noninvasive assessment of transplant-associated arteriosclerosis

Long-term outcome of patients with biopsy-proved myocarditis: Comparison with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy

Does reperfusion injury exist in humans?

A Community-Wide Assessment of the Use of Pulmonary Artery Catheters in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction

The Effect of High Doses of Calcium-Channel Blockers on Survival in Primary Pulmonary Hypertension

Neurohumoral Features of Myocardial Stunning Due to Sudden Emotional Stress

Evaluation of Postmortem Endomyocardial Biopsy Specimens From 38 Patients With Lymphocytic Myocarditis: Implications for Role of Sampling Error

Randomized clinical trial comparing percutaneous closure of patent foramen ovale (PFO) using the Amplatzer PFO Occluder with medical treatment in patients with cryptogenic embolism (PC-Trial): rationale and design

Cardiac myxoma - clinical experience in 24 patients

Guidelines for the Echocardiographic Assessment of the Right Heart in Adults: A Report from the American Society of Echocardiography

Myocarditis

Percutaneous balloon dilatation of the mitral valve: an analysis of echocardiographic variables related to outcome and the mechanism of dilatation.

Spectrum of exercise thallium-201 myocardial perfusion imaging in patients with chest pain and normal coronary angiograms

Two-dimensional echocardiographic assessment of Ebstein's anomaly.

Characterization of regional diastolic pressure gradients in the right ventricle.

Two-dimensional echocardiographic features of multiple right atrial myxomas

Myocarditis

Tomographic Three-dimensional Echocardiographic Determination of Chamber Size and Systolic Function in Patients With Left Ventricular Aneurysm

Evaluation and Management of Tricuspid Valve Disease

Value and limitations of Doppler echocardiography in the quantification of stenotic mitral valve area: comparison of the pressure half-time and the continuity equation methods.

Valve ring abscess in infective endocarditis: Visualization with wide angle two dimensional echocardiography

The Spectrum of Cardiac Defects in the Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, Types I and III

A Controlled Evaluation of the Risk of Bacterial Endocarditis in Persons with Mitral-Valve Prolapse

Noninvasive assessment of right ventricular systolic pressure in atrial septal defect: Analysis of the end-systolic configuration of the ventricular septum by two-dimensional echocardiography

Comparison of Doppler-determined elevated pulmonary arterial pressure with pressure measured at cardiac catheterization

Long-Term Prognosis of Mitral-Valve Prolapse

Echocardiographic Diagnosis of Intracardiac Myxomas

Clinical iron deficiency disturbs normal human responses to hypoxia

Analysis of Probability as an Aid in the Clinical Diagnosis of Coronary-Artery Disease

Long-Term Clinical and Echocardiographic Follow-Up After Percutaneous Mitral Valvuloplasty With the Inoue Balloon

Guidelines for the early management of patients with acute myocardial infarction

Underlying Causes and Long-Term Survival in Patients with Initially Unexplained Cardiomyopathy

Hemodynamics of the Right Ventricle in Normal and Disease States

ACC/AHA guidelines for coronary angiography11“ACC/AHA Guidelines for Coronary Angiography” was approved by the American College of Cardiology Board of Trustees in October 1998 and by the American Heart Association Science Advisory and Coordinating Committee in December 1998.22When citing this document, the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association request that the following format be used: Scanlon PJ, Faxon DP, Audet AM, Carabello B, Dehmer GJ, Eagle KA, Legako RD, Leon DF, Murray JA, Nissen SD, Pepine CJ, Watson RM. ACC/AHA guidelines for coronary angiography: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Committee on Coronary Angiography). J Am Coll Cardiol1999;33:1756–82433This document is available on the websites of the ACC (www.acc.org) and the AHA (www.americanheart.org). Reprints of this document (the complete guidelines) are available for $5 each by calling 800-253-4636 (US only) or writing the American College of Cardiology, Educational Services, 9111 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda, MD 20814-1699. Ask for reprint No. 71-0164. To obtain a reprint of the shorter version (executive summary and summary of recommendations) published in the May 4, 1999, issue of Circulation, ask for reprint No. 71-0163. To purchase additional reprints (specify version and reprint number): up to 999 copies, call 800-611-6083 (US only) or fax 413-665-2671; 1000 or more copies, call 214-706-1466, fax 214-691-6342, or e-mail pubauth@heart.org

Patterns of the Interventricular Septal Motion Can Predict Conditions of Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension

Unusual echographic manifestations of right and left heart myxomas

Percutaneous Balloon Versus Surgical Closed and Open Mitral Commissurotomy

The use of echocardiography in diagnosing culture-negative endocarditis.

Comparison of three Doppler ultrasound methods in the prediction of pulmonary artery pressure

Community-Acquired Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Endocarditis in the Detroit Medical Center

Antithrombotic Therapy in Valvular Heart Disease

Identification of the increased frequency of cardiovascular abnormalities associated with mitral valve prolapse by two-dimensional echocardiography

Infective endocarditis and echocardiography

Contribution of left ventricular contraction to the generation of right ventricular systolic pressure in the human heart.

Left ventricular myxoma

Determinants of ventricular septal motion. Influence of relative right and left ventricular size.

Reliability and reproducibility of two dimensional echocardiographic measurement of the stenotic mitral valve orifice area

Cross-Sectional Echocardiographic Detection of Aortic Ring Abscess in Bacterial Endocarditis

Extent and severity of atherosclerotic involvement of the aortic valve and root in familial hypercholesterolaemia

Myocarditis and Endomyocardial Biopsy in Unexplained Heart Failure: A Diagnosis in Search of a Disease

Infective endocarditis with negative blood cultures

Systematic visualization of coronary arteries by two-dimensional echocardiography in children and infants: Evaluation in Kawasaki's disease and coronary arteriovenous fistulas

Ventricular interdependence

Myocardial perfusion-contraction matching. Implications for coronary heart disease and hibernation.

Detection of endocarditis-associated perivalvular abscesses by two-dimensional echocardiography

Right Ventricular Diastolic Function 15 to 35 Years After Repair of Tetralogy of Fallot

Assessment of left ventricular ejection fraction and volumes by real-time, two-dimensional echocardiography. A comparison of cineangiographic and radionuclide techniques.

Evaluation of right ventricular volume and ejection fraction in children by two-dimensional echocardiography

Two-dimensional echocardiographic recognition of myocardial injury in man: comparison with postmortem studies.

Measurement of Fractional Flow Reserve to Assess the Functional Severity of Coronary-Artery Stenoses

Balloon Dilation Angioplasty of Peripheral Pulmonary Stenosis Associated With Williams Syndrome

Functional abnormalities in isolated left bundle branch block. The effect of interventricular asynchrony.

Left ventricular to left atrial communication secondary to a paraaortic abscess: Color flow doppler documentation

ACC/AHA 2006 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Valvular Heart Disease

Atrial myxomas: A fifty year review

The Treatment of Kawasaki Syndrome with Intravenous Gamma Globulin

Clinical and echocardiographic features of right atrial masses

Mitral Valvular Disease

Infective endocarditis, 1983–1988: Echocardiographic findings and factors influencing morbidity and mortality

Recommendations for Quantitation of the Left Ventricle by Two-Dimensional Echocardiography

The significance of multiple, recurrent, and “complex” cardiac myxomas

Quantitative Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of Aneurysmal Left Ventricles

Noninvasive estimation of right ventricular systolic pressure by Doppler ultrasound in patients with tricuspid regurgitation.

Right Ventricular Function in Cardiovascular Disease, Part I

Effects of an Angiotensin-Converting–Enzyme Inhibitor, Ramipril, on Cardiovascular Events in High-Risk Patients

Two dimensional echocardiographic detection of intraatrial masses

Echocardiographic measurement of right ventricular wall thickness. A new application of subxiphoid echocardiography.

Right ventricular function in adult cardiovascular disease

Two-dimensional echocardiographic determination of right atrial emptying volume: A noninvasive index in quantifying the degree of tricuspid regurgitation

Interventricular septal configuration as a predictor of right ventricular systolic hypertension in children: a cross-sectional echocardiographic study.

Clinical utility of two dimensional echocardiography in infective endocarditis

Metabolic responses of hibernating and infarcted myocardium to revascularization. A follow-up study of regional perfusion, function, and metabolism.

Smoke-like echo in the left atrial cavity in mitral valve disease: Its features and significance

Familial cardiac myxoma

Atrial myxoma: a review of the neurological complications, metastases, and recurrences

Evaluation of pulmonary artery pressure and resistance by pulsed Doppler echocardiography

Rupture of Chordae Tendineae Associated Myxoma of the Left Atrium

Late Results of Percutaneous Mitral Commissurotomy in a Series of 1024 Patients

Echocardiographic detection of subvalvar aortic root aneurysm extending to mitral valve annulus as complication of aortic valve endocarditis.

Echocardiographic detection of coronary artery disease during dobutamine infusion.

2008 Focused Update Incorporated Into the ACC/AHA 2006 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Valvular Heart Disease

Cardiac anomalies in Williams-Beuren syndrome.

Noninvasive prediction of transvalvular pressure gradient in patients with pulmonary stenosis by quantitative two-dimensional echocardiographic Doppler studies.

Quantification of pressure gradients across stenotic valves by Doppler ultrasound

Myocarditis in β-Thalassemia Major

Prognostic Significance of Regional Wall Motion Abnormality in Patients With Prior Myocardial Infarction: A Prospective Correlative Study of Two-Dimensional Echocardiography and Angiography

Sensitivity, specificity and predictive value of two-dimensional echocardiography in detecting coronary artery aneurysms in patients with kawasaki disease

Prevalence and clinical correlates of pulmonary arterial hypertension in progressive systemic sclerosis

Regional Wall Motion Index for Infarct and Noninfarct Regions after Reperfusion in Acute Myocardial Infarction: Comparison With Global Wall Motion Index

Improvement in rest and exercise-induced wall motion abnormalities after coronary angioplasty: An exercise echocardiographic study

Improvement in regional wall motion after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty during acute myocardial infarction: Utility of two-dimensional echocardiography

Exercise echocardiography, angiography, and intracoronary ultrasound after cardiac transplantation

Echocardiographic Manifestation of Right Sinus of Valsalva Aneurysm

Echocardiographic patterns of pulmonic valve motion in pulmonic stenos is

ACC/AHA guidelines for cardiac catheterization and cardiac catheterization laboratories. American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Ad Hoc Task Force on Cardiac Catheterization.

Role of echocardiography in patients with coronary artery disease

Echocardiographic patterns of pulmonary valve motion in valvular pulmonary stenosis

Echocardiographic Features of Atrial Septal Defect

Atrial myxoma

Noninvasive visualization of the left main coronary artery by cross-sectional echocardiography.

Echocardiographic manifestations of valvular vegetations

Echocardiography in Bacterial Endocarditis

Echocardiographic Manifestations of Left Bundle Branch Block

Cross-sectional echocardiography in acute myocardial infarction: detection and localization of regional left ventricular asynergy.

An echocardiographic index for separation of right ventricular volume and pressure overload

Transverse aortic wall tears in infants after balloon angioplasty for aortic valve stenosis: Relation of aortic wall damage to diameter of inflated angioplasty balloon and aortic lumen in seven necropsy cases

Long-term changes in mitral valve area after successful mitral commissurotomy.

Echocardiographic Patterns of Pulmonic Valve Motion with Pulmonary Hypertension

Assessment of location and size of myocardial infarction with contrast-enhanced echocardiography

Cross-sectional echocardiographic characterization of aortic obstruction. 1. Supravalvular aortic stenosis and aortic hypoplasia.

Atrial myxoma

Complementary Value of Two-Dimensional Exercise Echocardiography to Routine Treadmill Exercise Testing

Serial echocardiographic appearance of healing bacterial vegetations

Echocardiographic manifestations of d-transposition of the great vessels

Reliability of Two-dimensional Echocardiography in Assessing the Severity of Valvular Aortic Stenosis

Cross-sectional echocardiographic analysis of the extent of left ventricular asynergy in acute myocardial infarction.

Premature pulmonary valve opening.

Prediction of survival in progressive systemic sclerosis by multivariate analysis of clinical features

ACC/AHA guidelines for cardiac catheterization and cardiac catheterization laboratories

Quantitative evaluation of inflammation in biopsy specimens from idiopathically failing or irritable hearts: Experience in 80 pediatric and adult patients

Intracavitary echoes in patients with mitral prosthetic valves

Premature pulmonic valve opening following sinus of Valsalva aneurysm rupture into the right atrium.

Detection of left ventricular aneurysms by cross-sectional echocardiography.

Mid systolic notching of the pulmonary valve in the absence of pulmonary hypertension

Mechanism of paradoxical early diastolic septal motion in patients with mitral stenosis: A cross-sectional echocardiographic study

Echocardiography in valvular vegetations

Exercise echocardiography: A clinically practical addition in the evaluation of coronary artery disease

Task force III: Diagnostic Procedures

Quantitative two-dimensional echocardiographic assessment of patients undergoing left ventricular aneurysmectomy

Use of Echocardiography in Patients with Prolapsed Mitral Valve

Mechanism of abnormal septal motion in patients with right ventricular volume overload: a cross-sectional echocardiographic study.

Determination of Mitral Valve Area by Cross-Sectional Echocardiography

Comparison of M-mode and cross-sectional echocardiography in infective endocarditis.