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Author(s): Michael Y Henein , Per Lindqvist Added: 3 years ago
Diastole is an important period in the cardiac cycle when all heart components integrate together to secure optimum ventricular filling which determines the stroke volume pumped by the ventricle in the succeeding cycle. Three diastolic phases are well-recognised; early diastole, diastasis and late diastole ‘atrial systole’ (Figure 1). To describe the actual events happening in the ventricle the… View more

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Heart Failure
Author(s): Ernest Spitzer , Ben Ren , Felix Zijlstra , et al Added: 3 years ago
Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) is the most widely used parameter of left ventricular (LV) systolic function, and its deterioration is associated with reduced survival rates.1 LVEF is expressed as a percent value, and calculated by dividing the stroke volume (enddiastolic volume minus end-systolic volume) by the end-diastolic volume and multiplying by 100; however, volume measurements… View more

Heart Failure
Roxy Senior is Professor of Clinical Cardiology at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London and Consultant Cardiologist and Director of Echocardiography at the Royal Brompton Hospital, London and Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow. He is a clinician with a major interest in echocardiography. He has been involved with echocardiography for the last 25 years and has published… View more
Rosa Sicari
Master Degree in medicine from the University of Pisa, PhD in Cardiovascular Pathophysiology from the University of Milan, specialist in Cardiovascular Diseases. Currently Senior Researcher at the National Research Council, Head of the Echocardiography Laboratory of the Institute of Clinical Physiology of CNR. Co-author of 85 original articles in international scientific journals, with a… View more
Federico M Asch
Job title: Director of the Echocardiography Core Lab at MedStar Health Research Institute and Associate Professor of Medicine
Dr Federico Asch is the Director of the Echocardiography Core Lab at MedStar Health Research Institute and Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) at Georgetown University. His research interests are: Myocardial viability in Ischemic Cardiomyopathy, Devices in Cardiovascular Diseases, Role of Echocardiography in clinical trials, and Contrast Echocardiography.a View more
Research Area(s) / Expertise: Job title: Director of Interventional Echocardiography
Rebecca THahnis Director of Interventional Echocardiography at NewYork-Presbyterian/ Columbia University Medical Center, US. She also serves asProfessor of Clinical Medicine at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr Hahn completed her medical training at University of Washington School of Medicine, and her residency and fellowship at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical… View more
Arunima Misra
Research Area(s) / Expertise:

Echocardiography & Ultrasound

Imaging & Diagnostics

 Job title: Associate Professor, Section of Cardiology
Personal History Dr Arunima Misra is based in Houston, Texas, where she works as Associate Professor and Director of Nuclear Cardiology at the Baylor College of Medicine. Academic History Dr Misra trained in medical school and completed her residency at UT Southwestern Medical School. She did both her research and clinic fellowship in cardiology at Baylor College of Medicine,… View more
Jose Luis Zamorano
Job title: Professor of Medicine and Chief of Cardiology
Jose L Zamorano is Professor of Medicine at the University Alcala de Henares, Madrid, and the Chief of Cardiology at the University Hospital Ramón y Cajal. Prof Zamorano’s has a broad range of research interests including heart failure, ischaemic heart disease, cardiovascular risk factors and cardiovascular imaging modalities. Within these fields, Prof Zamorano he is widely published with over… View more
Ding Zee Pin
Research Area(s) / Expertise:

Echocardiography & Ultrasound

Structural Intervention

 Job title: Senior consultant, Advisor, Echocardiography, National Heart Centre Singapore. Associate Professor, Duke-NUS School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. Adj. Associate Professor, LKC School of Medicine, Nanyang
Dr Ding Zee Pin is a Senior Consultant within the Department of Cardiology t the National Heart Center in Singapore. Professor Ding graduated with a bachelor of Medicine and Surgery in 1979, before completing her master of medicine in 1984 at the National University of Singapore. She then completed her fellowship in echocardiography at the Mayo Clinic in the USA. She is a Fellow of the Academy… View more
Kian Keong Poh
Job title: Senior Consultant, Director of Postgraduate Education and Clinical Director of Research
Professor Poh Kian Keong is presently a Senior Consultant, Director of Postgraduate Education and Clinical Director of Research at the Department of Cardiology, NUHCS. His training in cardiology took place in Cardiac Department at NUH. Subsequently, he worked at St Elizabeth Medical Centre, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston on novel therapies for cardiovascular conditions, including… View more