Assessment of left ventricular functions and myocardial iron load with tissue Doppler and speckle tracking echocardiography and T2* MRI in patients with β-thalassemia major.
Mehmet Emre AriFiliz Ekiciİbrahim İlker ÇetinEmine Betül TavilNeşe YaralıPamir IşıkTuncay HazırolanBahattin TunçPublished in: Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) (2017)
Although T2* MRI is the most sensitive test detecting myocardial iron load, TDI and STE can be used for screening myocardial dysfunction. The abnormal strain values, especially circumferential, may be detected as the first finding of abnormal iron load and related to T2* values.
Keyphrases
- left ventricular
- hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- cardiac resynchronization therapy
- magnetic resonance imaging
- acute myocardial infarction
- contrast enhanced
- heart failure
- iron deficiency
- aortic stenosis
- left atrial
- mitral valve
- diffusion weighted imaging
- computed tomography
- oxidative stress
- coronary artery disease
- pulmonary hypertension
- atrial fibrillation
- transcatheter aortic valve replacement