Juan E. Guerra
Argerich Hospital
Network
Latest external collaboration on country level. Dive into details by clicking on the dots.
Publication
Featured researches published by Juan E. Guerra.
European Journal of Echocardiography | 2009
Tomás F. Cianciulli; María Cristina Saccheri; Jorge A. Lax; Robert Guidoin; Ze Zhang; Juan E. Guerra; Horacio A. Prezioso; Luis A. Vidal
Intermittent aortic regurgitation (AR) is an unusual complication after a mechanical prosthetic replacement. We describe a rare case of intermittent dysfunction of a bileaflet mechanical aortic prosthetic valve in a 41-year-old man with a 21 mm Tri-technologies prosthetic valve implanted 4 years before. Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) before discharge was normal and prosthesis-patient mismatch was ruled out. He was admitted to our hospital because of mild dyspnoea at effort. TTE revealed acute and severe intermittent AR. The patient underwent surgery, during which abnormal proliferation of subvalvular pannus overgrowth on the inflow aspect of the prosthesis was found impeding the normal closure of one of the discs of the prosthesis. The pannus formation was resected, the Tri-technologies prosthetic valve was prophylactic explanted and a 23 mm St Jude Medical bileaflet mechanical prosthesis valve was implanted. We describe the role of TTE and the limitation of the cinefluoroscopy in the diagnosis of Tri-technologies prosthetic dysfunction.
Echocardiography-a Journal of Cardiovascular Ultrasound and Allied Techniques | 2009
María Cristina Saccheri; Tomás F. Cianciulli; Jorge A. Lax; Juan E. Guerra; Héctor J. Redruello; Fabio L. Weich Glogier; Juan A. Gagliardi; Adriana N. Dorelle; Horacio A. Prezioso; Luis A. Vidal
Background: Tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) parameters of peak myocardial velocities (S′, E′, and A′) has been employed to assess the regional left ventricular myocardial function. The global function index (GFI) derived from TDI has been recently employed to distinguish the different etiologies of left ventricular hypertrophy. Objective: To analyze whether the GFI or individual TDI parameters of peak myocardial velocities (S′, E′, and A′) allows detecting different degrees of regional myocardial dysfunction in the most frequent forms of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). Methods: GFI = (E/E′)/S′ (where E is the peak transmitral flow velocity, E′ is the early diastolic myocardial velocity, and S′ is the peak systolic myocardial velocity) and TDI peak myocardial velocities was measured in the septal and lateral mitral annulus in 101 patients with HCM (mean age 47.5 ± 14 years, 58 women) and in age‐matched group of 30 healthy controls (mean age 46 ± 6 years, 16 women). Results: Forty‐five patients had nonobstructive asymmetric septal HCM, 20 patients had a subaortic gradient ≥ 30 mm Hg, 21 p. had apical HCM, and 15 p. had other forms of HCM (midventricular, symmetric, and biventricular). All patients with HCM exhibited a decrease in early diastolic (E′) and systolic (S′) myocardial velocities, both in the lateral and septal‐mitral annulus border, but more pronounced in septal‐mitral annulus. Septal GFI was higher in HCM patients than in healthy subjects (1.8 (1.1–2.5) and (0.57 (0.31–0.92), respectively, P < 0.001), but no differences were seen when different forms of HCM were compared. Conclusions: In a selected population of patients with HCM and a preserved left ventricular(LV) systolic function, GFI and individual TDI parameters of peak velocity (S′, E′, and A′) and E/E′ ratio were similar in different forms of HCM, indicating that in all patients with HCM there is regional systolic and diastolic myocardial dysfunction, regardless of the location of hypertrophy. (ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, Volume 26, July 2009)
World Journal of Cardiology | 2017
María Cristina Saccheri; Tomás F. Cianciulli; Luis A. Morita; Ricardo J. Méndez; Martín Alejandro Beck; Juan E. Guerra; Alberto Cozzarin; Luciana Jimena Puente; Lorena Romina Balletti; Jorge A. Lax
AIM To explore regional systolic strain of midwall and endocardial segments using speckle tracking echocardiography in patients with apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). METHODS We prospectively assessed 20 patients (mean age 53 ± 16 years, range: 18-81 years, 10 were male), with apical HCM. We measured global longitudinal peak systolic strain (GLPSS) in the midwall and endocardium of the left ventricle. RESULTS The diastolic thickness of the 4 apical segments was 16.25 ± 2.75 mm. All patients had a normal global systolic function with a fractional shortening of 50% ± 8%. In spite of supernormal left ventricular (LV) systolic function, midwall GLPSS was decreased in all patients, more in the apical (-7.3% ± -8.8%) than in basal segments (-15.5% ± -6.93%), while endocardial GLPPS was significantly greater and reached normal values (apical: -22.8% ± -7.8%, basal: -17.9% ± -7.5%). CONCLUSION This study shows that two-dimensional strain was decreased mainly confined to the mesocardium, while endocardium myocardial deformation was preserved in HCM and allowed to identify subclinical LV dysfunction. This transmural heterogeneity in systolic strain had not been previously described in HCM and could be explained by the distribution of myofibrillar disarray in deep myocardial areas. The clinical application of this novel finding may help further understanding of the pathophysiology of HCM.
Cardiology Journal | 2009
Tomás F. Cianciulli; Patricia del-Carmen-Gonzalez-Colaso; María Cristina Saccheri; Jorge A. Lax; Héctor J. Redruello; Juan E. Guerra; Horacio A. Prezioso; Luis A. Vidal
International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging | 2009
Tomás F. Cianciulli; María Cristina Saccheri; Jorge A. Lax; Alejandra Bermann; Ricardo J. Méndez; Juan E. Guerra; Héctor J. Redruello; Adriana N. Dorelle; Horacio A. Prezioso; Luis A. Vidal
Revista Espanola De Cardiologia | 2006
María Cristina Saccheri; Tomás F. Cianciulli; Isabel V. Konopka; Juan E. Guerra; Rafael S. Acunzo; Dora F. Serans; Jorge A. Lax; Horacio A. Prezioso; Luis A. Vidal; Marcelo V. Elizari
Revista Espanola De Cardiologia | 2006
María Cristina Saccheri; Tomás F. Cianciulli; Isabel V. Konopka; Juan E. Guerra; Rafael S. Acunzo; Dora F. Serans; Jorge A. Lax; Horacio A. Prezioso; Luis A. Vidal; Marcelo V. Elizari
Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology | 1997
Juan E. Guerra; Tomás F. Cianciulli; Jorge A. Lax; Ignacio H Zayat; Luis A. Morita; Adriana N. Dorelle; Prezioso Horacio
Revista Argentina de Cardiología | 2013
Ricardo J. Méndez; Tomás F. Cianciulli; Jorge A. Lax; Juan Gagliardi; Luis A. Morita; Juan E. Guerra; Adriana N. Dorelle; Horacio A. Prezioso
Revista Argentina de Cardiología | 2013
Ricardo J. Méndez; Tomás F. Cianciulli; Jorge A. Lax; Juan Gagliardi; Luis A. Morita; Juan E. Guerra; Adriana N. Dorelle; Horacio A. Prezioso