The global burden of diabetes mellitus and its related complications are currently increasing.
Diabetes mellitus affects the heart through various mechanisms including microvascular …

The term uraemic cardiomyopathy refers to the cardiac abnormalities that are seen in
patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Historically, this term was used to describe a …

Echocardiography has become the primary imaging tool in the diagnosis and assessment of
congenital and acquired heart disease in infants, children, and adolescents. Transthoracic …

Background—Age is a major risk for cardiovascular diseases. Although mitochondrial
reactive oxygen species have been proposed as one of the causes of aging, their role in …

Diabetes affects every organ in the body and cardiovascular disease accounts for two-thirds
of the mortality in the diabetic population. Diabetes-related heart disease occurs in the form …

Age is a major risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, not only because it prolongs exposure
to several other cardiovascular risks, but also owing to intrinsic cardiac aging, which reduces …

Context Limited information exists regarding the role of left ventricular function in predicting
exercise capacity and impact on age-and sex-related differences. Objectives To determine …

Background—Tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) detects left ventricular dysfunction in patients
with heart failure and normal ejection fraction, but the prognostic significance of left …

Left ventricular (LV) diastolic dysfunction (DD) and diastolic heart failure (HF), that is
symptomatic DD, are due to alterations of myocardial diastolic properties. These alterations …

BACKGROUND: Left ventricular torsion (LVtor) and subsequent untwisting play an important
role in diastolic filling. There is, however, limited information about how LVtor and untwisting …