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Does tissue Doppler echocardiography detect subclinical diastolic dysfunction in infants of diabetic mothers compared to healthy babies?
Does tissue Doppler echocardiography detect subclinical diastolic dysfunction in infants of diabetic mothers compared to healthy babies?
Infants of diabetic mothers exhibit subclinical biventricular diastolic dysfunction detectable by tissue Doppler echocardiography, warranting close monitoring especially in those with septal thickening.
May support closer monitoring in infants of diabetic mothers; leaves open prospective validation of tissue Doppler screening.
Interventricular septal thickening in babies of diabetic mothers disrupt the diastolic function of both ventricles. This can be demonstrated by tissue Doppler echocardiography. These results show that diastolic function is disrupted in both ventricles in babies of diabetic mothers and only in the right ventricle in healthy babies. It was thought that this could be explained by right ventricular dysfunction arising from physiological pulmonary hypertension in the neonatal period. Subclinical right and left ventricular diastolic dysfunctions which we found by tissue Doppler indicate that babies of diabetic mothers especially with a thick septum should be closely monitored.
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