Using a free-breathing strategy for the evaluation of cardiac function is important for intrasubject longitudinal studies, intersubject comparisons, and multicenter trials for patients with DMD.
Radionuclide imaging (radioactive nuclides) provides a safe, quantitative evaluation of cardiac function and a direct measurement of myocardial blood flow and myocardial metabolism.
A nuclear imaging of heart is a noninvasive procedure that reveals the cardiac structure and physiology enabling evaluation of cardiac function.
Wild-type and PTP1B knockout mice were fed normal (10%) or high (45%) fat diet for 5 months prior to evaluation of cardiac function.
Mice are extensively used for gene modification research and isolated cardiomyocytes are essential for evaluation of cardiac function without interference from non-myocyte contribution.
Evaluation of cardiac function showed a significant increase in the ejection fraction, improved neovascularization, attenuated fibrosis as well as less left ventricular dilatation as compared to an animal control group.
Twenty individuals with biopsy-proven cirrhosis and 15 aged-matched controls underwent echocardiographic evaluation of cardiac function.
Evaluation of cardiac function with echocardiography was performed 90 minutes after isoprenaline in all animals.
PET scan has significantly lower spatial and temporal resolution than MRI, limiting its accuracy in evaluation of cardiac function.
We used all echocardiographic views available by hTEE to perform our evaluation of cardiac function and filling.
