Does Tissue Doppler echocardiography detect impaired cardiac function independently of conventional echocardiography in persons with hypertension, diabetes, or ischaemic heart disease?
Tissue Doppler imaging can detect subclinical cardiac dysfunction in patients with cardiovascular risk factors even when conventional echocardiography is normal.
In the general population, persons with hypertension, diabetes, or IHD have impaired cardiac function by TDI independently of the result of conventional echocardiography.
Møgelvang et al. (Mon,) studied this question.