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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-12-21
pubmed:abstractText
Diastolic filling of the left ventricle is often impaired in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) in the absence of systolic wall motion abnormalities or previous myocardial infarction. The current study was designed to assess the ability of tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) for on-line detection of regional diastolic wall motion abnormalities to identify CAD in patients with preserved systolic function. 20 normal subjects (age 51 +/- 13 years) and 17 CAD patients with normal systolic function and > or = 70% luminal narrowing of the LAD (age 56 +/- 11 years) were included. Coronary anatomy was unknown to the echocardiographer. In the parasternal short axis and the apical 4-chamber-view, peak tissue velocities of the anterior/inferior and the midseptal/midlateral LV segments during rapid ejection (RE), isovolumic relaxation (IR), rapid filling (RF) and atrial contraction (AC) were analyzed by color-M-Mode-TDI. In the apical view, in 13 of 35 (37%) patients with adequate recordings, myocardial asynchrony was detected during IR: while the septum was moving inwards (red color-coding), the lateral wall was moving outwards (blue/green coding). In the remaining 22 patients (63%) a slow, synchronous outward motion of septum and lateral wall with homogeneous color-coding (blue/green) was seen. Unblinding of the coronary status revealed a critical LAD stenosis in all 13 patients (100%) with myocardial asynchrony. Analysis of midseptal peak velocities during IR revealed positive velocities (1.22 +/- 1.64 cm/s) in CAD patients and negative velocities (-1.39 +/- 0.81 cm/s) in normal subjects. Thus, TDI allowed for the on-line detection of early diastolic asynchrony in 13 of 16 (82%) patients with critical LAD-narrowing. Due to the rapid assessment of regional wall motion abnormalities, TDI might help to identify CAD in patients with normal systolic function.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0167-9899
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
15
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
379-90
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1999
pubmed:articleTitle
Tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) for on-line detection of regional early diastolic ventricular asynchrony in patients with coronary artery disease.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Cardiology, University Essen, Germany. christian.bruch@uni-essen.de
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article