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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
medicine
Left ventricular filling and emptying patterns in anemia due to beta thalassemia: A computer-assisted echocardiographic study
Cardiology (Switzerland), Volume 69, No. 5, Year 1982
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Description
Patterns of left ventricular (LV) filling and emptying were studied in 17 patients with chronic anemia due to beta thalassemia and in 8 normal subjects. M-mode echocardio-grams were recorded in each patient and digitization and computer analysis of the tracings provided data relating to the systolic and diastolic performance of the LV. LV diameter was increased. The rate, pattern and time relationships of LV systolic emptying were normal or increased in patients with thalassemia especially in those with thalassemia major requiring a large number of blood transfusions. Peak LV filling rate and the time course of early diastolic ventricular filling were also normal or increased in most patients but an abnormality of diastole was present in 3; this may have been due to abnormal early diastolic relaxation or to right-sided overload altering the LV filling pattern. © 1982 S. Karger AG, Basel.
Authors & Co-Authors
Rachmilewitz, Eliezer A.
Israel, Jerusalem
Hadassah University Medical Centre
Gotsman, Mervyn Samuel
Israel, Jerusalem
Hadassah University Medical Centre
Lewis, Basil S.
Israel, Jerusalem
Hadassah University Medical Centre
Statistics
Citations: 11
Authors: 3
Affiliations: 1
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1159/000173516
ISSN:
00086312
Research Areas
Health System And Policy