Evaluation Of
Thick Walls
The ventricular walls become thick for
several reasons including LV
hypertrophy, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, infiltrative cardiomyopathy,
restrictive cardiomyopathy and the athletics heart. These entities can usually
be differentiated on the basis of clinical and laboratory findings, but
differentiating then can occasionally be difficult. The evaluation of
myocardial relaxation with TDI is able to distinguish between a thick athletics
normal heart and other disease conditions. Mitral annulus motion is well
preserved in the athletic heart because myocardial relaxation is preserved, but
it is reduced in all other conditions that have impaired myocardial relaxation.
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