Why the study?
Does Color Kinesis echocardiography improve the quantitative assessment of global and regional LV diastolic function compared to standard Doppler indices in patients with LV hypertrophy or coronary artery disease?
Population
73 subjects total: 29 patients with left ventricular hypertrophy, 29 age-matched control subjects, and 15…
Comparison
Color Kinesis echocardiography vs Standard mitral and pulmonary vein flow Doppler…
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Color Kinesis may detect diastolic dysfunction missed by Doppler in LVH and CAD; hypothesis-generating, requires prospective validation before clinical use.
Does Color Kinesis echocardiography improve the quantitative assessment of global and regional LV diastolic function compared to standard Doppler indices in patients with LV hypertrophy or coronary artery disease?
Color Kinesis provides an objective, quantitative assessment of regional and global LV diastolic function, identifying diastolic asynchrony even when standard Doppler indices appear normal.
Vignon et al. (1998) studied this question.
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