Why the study?
Does tissue Doppler imaging reveal a different frequency of diastolic dysfunction compared to traditional pulsed wave Doppler in patients with sickle cell anaemia without congestive heart failure?
Does tissue Doppler imaging reveal a different frequency of diastolic dysfunction compared to traditional pulsed wave Doppler in patients with sickle cell anaemia without congestive heart failure?
Tissue Doppler imaging suggests that left ventricular diastolic dysfunction is less frequent in sickle cell anaemia patients without heart failure than previously estimated by traditional pulsed wave Doppler.
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TDI may indicate lower diastolic dysfunction rates than PWD in sickle cell anemia without HF; hypothesis-generating, should not yet change practice.
Kanadaşı et al. (2005) studied this question.
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