Publication details
Echocardiographic signs of subclinical cardiac function impairment in Duchenne dystrophy gene carriers
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| Year of publication | 2020 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Scientific Reports |
| MU Faculty or unit | |
| Citation | |
| Web | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-77882-6.pdf |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-77882-6 |
| Keywords | Duchenne dystrophy; subclinical cardiac function impairment |
| Description | To assess subclinical cardiac function impairment in Duchenne dystrophy (DMD) female carriers. Forty-four female subjects proved as DMD carriers underwent echocardiographic examination including tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) of mitral and tricuspid annulus. Seventeen age-matched healthy female subjects served as controls. A significant differences in peak systolic annular velocity (Sa) between carriers and controls were found for lateral and septal part of the mitral annulus and for tricuspid annulus (0.09 vs. 0.11 m/s, p<0.001, 0.08 vs. 0.09 m/s, p<0.01 and 0.13 vs. 0.14 m/s, p=0.02 respectively). There was also difference in early diastolic velocity (Ea) of the septal part of the mitral annulus (0.11 vs. 0.13 m/s, p=0.03). The subclinical deterioration of systolic function is presented even in asymptomatic DMD female carriers. |
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