Echocardiographic features of tropical endomyocardial disease in South India.
Key result
Cross-sectional echocardiography identified tethering of the posterior mitral valve leaflet and echo-dense material as constant diagnostic features of tropical endomyocardial disease in 15 patients.
Why the study?
Can M-mode and cross-sectional echocardiography identify specific diagnostic features of tropical endomyocardial disease?
Population
15 patients with angiographically proved tropical endomyocardial disease
Design
Case_series
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Implication
May aid non-invasive diagnosis of tropical endomyocardial disease; hypothesis-generating from small case series.
Study Design
Type
Observational (n=15)
Structured PICO
Can M-mode and cross-sectional echocardiography identify specific diagnostic features of tropical endomyocardial disease?
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Population
15 patients with angiographically proved tropical endomyocardial disease evaluated using echocardiography.
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Exposure
M-mode and cross-sectional echocardiography (including colour coding of regional echo amplitude and digitisation of records)
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Outcome
Identification of specific echocardiographic features of tropical endomyocardial diseasesurrogate
Cross-sectional echocardiography, particularly with colour coded amplitude processing, can provide a confident non-invasive diagnosis of tropical endomyocardial disease.
Cite This Study
Vijayaraghavan et al. (1983) conducted an observational in Tropical endomyocardial disease (n=15). M-mode and cross-sectional echocardiography was evaluated on Diagnostic echocardiographic features of tropical endomyocardial disease. Cross-sectional echocardiography identified tethering of the posterior mitral valve leaflet and echo-dense material as constant diagnostic features of tropical endomyocardial disease in 15 patients.