left ventricular diastolic dysfunction ; cirrhosis ; liver ; alcohol
Subject RIV
FH - Neurology
R&D Projects
1M0517 GA MŠMT - Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS)
CEZ
AV0Z50110509 - FGU-C (2005-2011)
UT WOS
000330901000009
EID SCOPUS
84893901646
Annotation
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to prove that the incidence of the more unusual and largely under-researched cardiac dysfunction, i.e. diastolic, is more frequent in patients with alcoholic cirrhosis. Comparison of the incidence of left ventriculardiastolic dysfunction in medical-ward patients with no prior history of cardiovascular disease to that of the patients with hepatic cirrhosis caused by alcohol abuse was carried out. The study is original from the point of view of examination of patients with cirrhosis of solely alcoholic aetiology in one Central-European university hospital. METHODS: Three methods of echocardiographic examination were used: (i) pulse Doppler echocardiography to assess blood flow through the mitral valve and in the pulmonary veins, (ii) tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) to assess mitral annular motion, and (iii) colour M-mode Doppler echocardiography to assess blood flow from the left atrium into the left ventricle. RESULTS: The results found confirmed that
