Background Diabetes mellitus type I (DMTI) is one of the most common endocrine and metabolic conditions in childhood. We aimed to assess the tissue Doppler imagining changes in children with DMTI compared to healthy children. Materials and Methods This case-control study was performed on 96 DMTI and 96 healthy children. The d...

conclusions gated spect mpi has a good correlation with echocardiography for the measurement of left ventricular ef, edv, and esv in patients with severe heart failure. however, the absolute values of these functional parameters from echocardiography and gated spect mpi measured with different software packages should not be used interchangeably. results a good correlation was found between ech...

the disease of thalassemia major requires mangement by repeated transfusions of packed cell and iron chelators such as deferoxamine. today, serum ferritin is used for estimation of adequacy of the management. as the most morbidities and mortalities of the disease are the consequences of cardiac complications. echocardiography is periodically periodically performed along with the management. in ...

background : left ventricular (lv) dyssynchrony is a prevalent feature in heart failure (hf) patients. the current study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of inter and intraventricular dyssynchrony in hf patients with regard to the qrs duration and etiology. methods: the available data on the tissue doppler imaging (tdi) of 230 patients with refractory hf were analyzed. the patients were divided...