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Does pulse tissue-Doppler detect early left ventricular diastolic dysfunction better than routine echo-Doppler in newly diagnosed, untreated hypertensive patients?
Does pulse tissue-Doppler detect early left ventricular diastolic dysfunction better than routine echo-Doppler in newly diagnosed, untreated hypertensive patients?
Tissue Doppler imaging can detect early left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in newly diagnosed, untreated hypertensive patients before abnormalities are apparent on conventional echo-Doppler.
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May support earlier detection of subclinical diastolic dysfunction in hypertension; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Fıcı et al. (2012) studied this question.
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