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Systolic and diastolic dysfunction in cirrhosis: a tissue-Doppler and speckle tracking echocardiography study.
Francisco Sampaio
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Joana Pimenta ,
Nuno Bettencourt ,
Ricardo Fontes-Carvalho ,
Ana P Silva ,
João Valente ,
Paulo Bettencourt ,
José Fraga ,
Vasco Gama
Sep 2013
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Abstract
Cardiac dysfunction has been described in patients with cirrhosis. Conventional echocardiographic methods are frequently unable to detect abnormalities at rest and have limitations. We aimed to evaluate cardiac function in cirrhosis patients assessing: (i) left ventricular systolic function using speckle-tracking imaging; (ii) diastolic function using a tissue-Doppler based algorithm and comparing it with previously proposed definition of diastolic dysfunction (DD).