Previous studies using Doppler Tissue Echocardiography (DTE) have suggested that the early-diastolic myocardial velocity behaves as a relatively load-independent index of left ventricular relaxation in patients with cardiac diseases; it is not ascertained if this holds true also in normal human hearts.
Effects of the reduction of preload on left and right ventricular myocardial velocities analyzed by Doppler tissue echocardiography in healthy subjects.
Dipartimento di Clinica Medica, Nefrologia e Scienze della Prevenzione, Università degli Studi, Via Gramsci 14, 43100 Parma, Italy. giovanna.pela@unipr.it
