Mohd Farid

Mohd Farid

Monday, December 30, 2013

Tissue Doppler Imaging : Evaluation Of Thick Walls



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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