José Alberto San Román, MD, PhD, FESC, Ricardo Sanz-Ruiz, MD, José Ramón Ortega, MD, Matís Pérez-Paredes, MD, PhD, María Jesús Rollán, MD, PhD, Ana Cristina Muñoz, MD, Federico Segura, MD, Diego Jimenez, MD, PhD, Andres Carnero, MD, Marta Pinedo, MD, Roman Arnold, MD, Itziar Gómez, MD, and Francisco Fernández-Aviles, MD, PhD, FESC, FACC, Valladolid, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, and Murcia, Spain

Heart Failure/Cardiomyopathy

Assessment of Longitudinal and Radial Ventricular Dyssynchrony in Ischemic and Nonischemic Chronic Systolic Heart Failure: A Two-Dimensional Echocardiographic Speckle-Tracking Strain Study 58

Erwan Donal, MD, François Tournoux, MD, Christophe Leclercq, MD, PhD, Christian De Place, MD, Aude Solnon, MD, Geneviève Derumeaux, MD, PhD, Philippe Mabo, MD, Alain Cohen-Solal, MD, PhD, and Jean-Claude Daubert, MD, Rennes, Paris, and Lyon, France

Prognostic Implications of Relations of Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction with Body Composition and Myocardial Energy Expenditure: The Strong Heart Study 66

Vittorio Palmieri, MD, PhD, Mary J. Roman, MD, Jonathan N. Bella, MD, Jennifer E. Liu, MD, Lyle G. Best, MD, Elisa T. Lee, PhD, Barbara V. Howard, PhD, and Richard B. Devereux, MD, New York, New York; Timber Lake, South Dakota; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; and Washington, District of Columbia

The Coronary Flow Reserve Is Transiently Impaired in Tako-Tsubo Cardiomyopathy: A Prospective Study Using Serial Doppler Transthoracic Echocardiography 72

Patrick Meimoun, MD, Dorothée Malaquin, MD, Smain Sayah, MD, Tahar Benali, MD, Anne Luycx-Bore, MD, Franck Levy, MD, Hamdane Zemir, MD, and Christophe Tribouilloy, MD, PhD, Compiègne and Amiens, France

Congenital Heart Disease

Real-Time Three-Dimensional Echocardiographic Acquisition and Quantification of Left Ventricular Indices in Children and Young Adults with Congenital Heart Disease: Comparison with Magnetic Resonance Imaging 78

Tiffany J. Riehle, MD, MSE, William T. Mahle, MD, W. James Parks, MD, Denver Sallee III, MD, and Derek A. Fyfe, MD, PhD, Atlanta, Georgia

Accuracy and Reproducibility of Real-Time Three-Dimensional Echocardiography for Assessment of Right Ventricular Volumes and Ejection Fraction in Children 84

Xiuzhang Lu, Vyacheslav Nadvoretskiy, Liping Bu, Alan Stolpen, Nancy Ayres, Ricardo H. Pignatelli, John P. Kovalchin, Michelle Grenier, Berthold Klas, and Shuping Ge, MD, Houston, Texas; Iowa City, Iowa; and Munich, Germany

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Case Reports

Rapid Bioprosthetic Valve Degeneration Resulting in Severe Mitral Stenosis 90

Madhuri Bajaj, MD, Hussam Abuissa, MD, and Michael L. Main, MD, Kansas City, Missouri

An Unusual Cause of Severe Mitral Regurgitation: Aberrantly Inserted Chordae Tendineae 90

Dana Dawson, MBBS, MRCP, DPhil, Pankaj Mankad, MD, FRCS, Peter Bloomfield, MBChB, MD, FRCP, FACC, and Nicholas A. Boon, MA, MD, FRCP (Ed), FESC, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Not So Luck of the Irish: Four-Leaf Clover–Shaped Quadricusp Aortic Valve Found Around St. Patrick’s Day 90

Michael P. Davis, MD, Kevin S. DeWeese, RDCS, and David A. Orsinelli, MD, Columbus, Ohio

Cor Triatriatum Dexter and Sinister Appearance Caused by Giant Eustachian Valve and Prominent Interatrial Septal Aneurysm 91

Ozcan Ozeke, MD, Atac Celik, MD, and Mehmet Cem Basel, MD, Tokat, Turkey

Intra-atrial Extension of Wilms’ Tumor 91

Narayanan Namboodiri, MD, K. M. Krishnamoorthy, MD, FACC, and J. A. Tharakan, MD, Trivandrum, India

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