Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Is Associated With Further Left Ventricular Abnormalities in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A 3-Dimensional Speckle-Tracking Study.

Qingqing WangWenyan MaJizhu Xia

Published in: Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (2018)

Nonalcoholic fatty liver could aggravate LV hypertrophy and dysfunction in patients with type 2 diabetes. The combined application of conventional and 3-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography could detect these asymptomatic preclinical abnormalities.

Keyphrases

left ventricular
heart failure
acute myocardial infarction
oxidative stress
computed tomography
hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
fatty acid
mitral valve
pulmonary hypertension
cardiac resynchronization therapy
cell therapy
stem cells
left atrial