Clinical applications of tissue Doppler imaging: a promise fulfilled

Clinical applications of tissue Doppler imaging: a promise fulfilled.

The clinical applications of tissue Doppler imaging in the assessment of left ventricular diastolic function have moved from the experimental lab to clinical practice.

Tissue Doppler imaging: current and potential clinical applications.

Echocardiography when combined with spectral and colour flow Doppler is well established as a safe, non-invasive, and versatile diagnostic modality in cardiology, and is now the predominant technique used for evaluation of left ventricular function and for the assessment and quantification of valvar heart lesions. When combined with physiological or pharmacological stress, echocardiography also...

A Laser Doppler Imaging System for Clinical Diagnosis Applications

The laser Doppler perfusion imager (LDPI, Fig. 1) is a recent development in the field of laser Doppler flowmetry. It has great potential in many medical applications for the noninvasive diagnosis of problems based on microvascular perfusion. Established applications include assessment of breast skin blood flow, wound healing, skin burn, and Systemic Sclerosis. This work aims to enhance the usa...

Tissue Doppler imaging for the pre-clinical diagnosis of cardiomyopathy.

Duchenne muscular dystrophy is an important cause of cardiomyopathy in children and adolescents and is caused by mutations in the gene coding for the protein dystrophin [1]. Dystrophin participates in linking the sarcomere to the sarcolemma and extracellular matrix and plays a role in cell signalling [2]. The disease is characterised by skeletal and cardiac myopathies. Because it is inherited a...

Gene expression profiling in MS: a fulfilled promise?