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Echocardiographic Assessment of Cardiac Anatomy and Function in Adult Rats
Published on: December 13, 2019
Left ventricular systolic and diastolic function by echocardiogram in pseudoxanthoma elasticum
Long-Dang Nguyen1, Mohamed Terbah, Patrick Daudon
1Department of Cardiology, Centre Hospitalier Régional d'Orléans, Orleans, France. long-dang.nguyen@chr-orleans.fr
Abstract:
Pseudoxanthoma elasticum is an inherited systemic disease of connective tissue with possible cardiac involvement. Nineteen patients with pseudoxanthoma elasticum without a history of cardiac disease were investigated by echocardiography using standard measurements and tissue Doppler imaging. Systolic function was normal, but diastolic parameters were abnormal in 7 patients. Explanations for these abnormalities could be silent myocardial ischemia due to early coronary involvement and/or the direct consequences of ultrastructural defects of the elastic tissue of the heart.
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