BACKGROUND: Impairment of global diastolic function is considered to be the mechanism
of congestive heart failure in individuals with preserved systolic left ventricular (LV) function …

Early recognition of hypertensive heart disease is needed to prevent macrovascular and
microvascular damage. Hypertension (HTN) is a risk factor for coronary artery disease, and …

BACKGROUND: Tissue tracking (TT) and strain rate (SR) are new echocardiographic
modalities on the basis of Doppler tissue imaging, which allow assessment of the systolic …

Background—We have shown that hypertensive patients with left ventricular (LV)
hypertrophy have decreased LV midwall mechanics, but the effect of antihypertensive …

Aims: To investigate left ventricular systolic and diastolic function in patients with essential
hypertension and diabetes mellitus associated with hypertension by the myocardial …

Objective: Ketamine may be followed by a general increase in haemodynamics and oxygen
consumption, which may be of concern in patients with ischaemic heart disease. The …

Background: In patients with ischemic heart disease, high thoracic epidural analgesia
(HTEA) has been proposed to improve myocardial function. Tissue Doppler Imaging (TDI) is …

Background: Cardiac amyloidosis represents an archetypal form of restrictive heart disease,
characterized by profound diastolic dysfunction. As ejection fraction is preserved until the …

OBJECTIVE: We sought to analyze and compare midwall fractional shortening (mFS), and
its relations with circumferential end-systolic stress (cESS) and relative wall thickness …

Background: The Doppler‐derived myocardial performance index (MPI) has been used in
the evaluation of left ventricular (LV) function in several diseases. In patients with isolated …