Assistant Professor Attila Kovacs

Assistant Professor Attila Kovacs

Semmelweis University, Budapest (Hungary)

Attila Kovacs has joined the Semmelweis University Heart and Vascular Center in 2009 as a student researcher, and his main field of interest was exercise physiology and cardiovascular imaging from the very beginning. He focused on the implementation of novel echocardiographic techniques (speckle-tracking echocardiography and 3D imaging) in the everyday clinical routine. His PhD degree was completed in 2015 by a thesis concerning the comparison of physiological and pathological LV hypertrophies. Beyond that, he has a strong background in experimental research as well. He is working now as assistant professor and echocardiography core lab leader with a team of medical doctors, sonographers, PhD fellows and student researchers. He is the lead developer of the ReVISION method, an award-winning 3D echo technique for a detailed characterization of RV mechanics. He is an active member and Fellow of the ESC, and he has also served as a Hungarian Young Ambassador of Heart Imagers of Tomorrow.

Presentations

Right ventricle and sport.

Event: EuroEcho 2019

Topic: Echocardiography, Other

Session: What I need to know about right ventricle?

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Equal significance of longitudinal and radial wall motion represents the normal right ventricular mechanical pattern: 3D echocardiographic study in 231 healthy volunteers

Event: ESC Congress 2019

Topic: 3D Echocardiography

Session: Right ventricular function from mechanics to prognosis

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Impact of pulmonary pressures on the functional shift in right ventricular mechanics after mitral valve surgery: initial results of the PREPARE-MVR study

Event: ESC Congress 2018

Topic: 3D Echocardiography

Session: Echocardiographic assessment of the right heart

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Genetic determination of myocardial mechanics: towards a deeper understanding of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction?

Event: Heart Failure 2018

Topic: Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF)

Session: Chronic Heart Failure – Pathophysiology and Mechanisms

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Giant unruptured sinus of Valsalva aneurysm: matter of size?

Event: EuroEcho-Imaging 2017

Topic: Outflow obstruction

Session: Clinical Case Poster session 3

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More than volumes and ejection fraction: shape and mechanics!

Event: EuroEcho-Imaging 2017

Topic: The imaging examination and quality assessment

Session: 3D Echo for assessing the right ventricle - how and why?

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Right ventricular failure due to acute thrombosis of the ascending aorta: successful treatment by right ventricular assist device

Event: ESC Congress 2017

Topic: AHF - Non pharmacological treatment

Session: When the engine fails - Challenging heart failure cases

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Relative contribution of right ventricular longitudinal shortening and radial displacement to global pump function in healthy volunteers

Event: EuroEcho-Imaging 2016

Topic: Right ventricular systolic function

Session: Assessment of morphology and function

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Characteristic changes of systolic and diastolic function in rat models of type 1 versus type 2 diabetes mellitus assessed by speckle-tracking echocardiography

Event: ESC Congress 2016

Topic: Echo-ventricular function

Session: Echo ventricular function

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Inheritance of left ventricular structure and function implies no genetic predisposition to hypertensive heart disease in Caucasian twins

Event: ESC Congress 2016

Topic: Morphology, pathology and genetics

Session: Congenital heart disease

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Assistant Professor Attila Kovacs

Biography

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Right ventricle and sport.

Equal significance of longitudinal and radial wall motion represents the normal right ventricular mechanical pattern: 3D echocardiographic study in 231 healthy volunteers

Impact of pulmonary pressures on the functional shift in right ventricular mechanics after mitral valve surgery: initial results of the PREPARE-MVR study

Genetic determination of myocardial mechanics: towards a deeper understanding of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction?

Giant unruptured sinus of Valsalva aneurysm: matter of size?

More than volumes and ejection fraction: shape and mechanics!

Right ventricular failure due to acute thrombosis of the ascending aorta: successful treatment by right ventricular assist device

Relative contribution of right ventricular longitudinal shortening and radial displacement to global pump function in healthy volunteers

Characteristic changes of systolic and diastolic function in rat models of type 1 versus type 2 diabetes mellitus assessed by speckle-tracking echocardiography

Inheritance of left ventricular structure and function implies no genetic predisposition to hypertensive heart disease in Caucasian twins

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