Andrea Fiorencis, Marco Pepe, Vittorio Smarrazzo, Marika Martini, Salvatore Severino, Valeria Pergola, Marco Evangelista, Pierluigi Incarnato, Marco Previtero, Marco Maglione, Sabino Iliceto, Gianni Pedrizzetti, Donato Mele
BACKGROUND: HyperDoppler is a new echocardiographic color Doppler-based technique that can assess intracardiac flow dynamics. The aim of this study was to verify the feasibility and reproducibility of this technique in unselected patients and its capability to differentiate measures of vortex flow within the left ventricle (LV) in normal sedentary subjects, athletes, and patients with heart failure. METHODS: Two hundred unselected, consecutive patients presenting at the echocardiographic laboratory, 50 normal subjects, 30 athletes, and 50 patients with chronic heart failure and LV ejection fraction <50% were enrolled...
April 15, 2022: Journal of Clinical Medicine