BACKGROUND Circulating lipid levels and myocardial lipid content (MyLC) is increased in type 2 diabetes mellitus. This may cause a state of lipotoxicity that compromises left ventricular function and aggravate heart failure. We investigated the relationship among circulating lipid levels, MyLC, and cardiac function together with the acute cardiac effects of high as opposed to low circulating fr...

echocardiography is a non-invasive diagnostic technique which provides information regarding cardiac function and hemodynamics. it is the most frequently used cardiovascular diagnostic test after electrocardiography and chest x-ray. however, in a patient with acute chest pain, transthoracic echocardiography is essential both for diagnosing acute coronary syndrome, zeroing on the evaluation of v...

Cardiovascular diseases are the most common cause of mortality in world. Currently, type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is one main risk factors for major adverse cardiovascular events. T2DM patients have a four-fold higher developing heart failure and 10 to 12 times mortality. Echocardiography all its modalities best clinical tool diagnosis, since it provides static dynamic images that allow ident...

INTRODUCTION Previous studies have shown that serum bilirubin concentration is inversely associated with the risk of cardiovascular disease. The relationship between serum bilirubin concentration and left ventricular geometry, however, has not been investigated in patients with diabetes mellitus. METHODS In this cohort study, 158 asymptomatic patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus without ove...

OBJECTIVE To assess the Doppler-echocardiographic changes in normotensive patients with type II diabetes mellitus, in the presence or absence of signs of microangiopathy. METHODS Patients with type II diabetes mellitus were submitted to funduscopy contrasted with fluorescein and dosage of microalbuminuria for diagnose of microangiopathy and divided into two groups: DMII (patients without micr...

Background: The cardiac changes associated with diabetes are thought to comprise thickening of the myocardium and is characterized by predominantly diastolic dysfunction (DD), diabetic cardiomyopathy. So, this study aimed evaluate impairments in patients delta region type 2 mellitus using resting electrocardiogram (ECG) transthoracic echocardiography.
 Methods: This was a cross-sectional c...

BACKGROUND Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) complicated by retinopathy is associated with altered left ventricular (LV) structure and resting myocardial dysfunction unlike T2DM without retinopathy. The myocardial response to stress has not been compared in patients with and without diabetic retinopathy. The aim of this retrospective study was to determine the relationship between retinopathy and...

conclusions echocardiography and 2d speckle tracking strain imaging shows improvements in left ventricular deformation indices in atrioventricular reentrant tachycardia (avrt) and atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia (avnrt) patients for the mean systolic strain and strain rate at 24 hours and the three-month follow-up. in spite of the normal lvef, even during sinus rhythm, deformation ...

BACKGROUND Although the existence of diabetic cardiomyopathy in adults is firmly established, the presence of cardiac abnormalities in young diabetic patients is not universally accepted. We sought to determine the early stages of cardiac derangement and whether they are associated with renal dysfunction. METHODS AND RESULTS Thirty-nine patients (29 boys; mean age, 17.6 +/- 3.4 years) with in...

OBJECTIVE Coronary slow-flow phenomenon (CSFP) is described as protracted passage of angiographic contrast agent to the distal portion of the epicardial coronary arteries in the absence of stenosis. Few studies have addressed the effects of this condition on right ventricular (RV) dysfunction. The present objective was to assess RV function in CSFP via 2-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiog...