P055 * Tissue doppler imaging provides a new access for detection of early cardiac insult in diabetic patients

Conclusion:
Diabetic patients with retinopathy who are free of cardiac symptoms showed significant impairment of diastolic function compared to diabetics without retinopathy and control group.
TDI provides earlier insights into cardiovascular involvement in diabetic patients and seems to be more sensitive and informative to standard echocardiography alone to detect subclinical myocardial disease.

Source: European Journal of Heart Failure Supplements - February 23, 2012 Category: Cardiology Authors: Abdelrahman, M., Negm, H., Saleh, A., Rozza, A., kholief, H., Karawya, S., Luo, X. H., Li, Z. J., Yang, Y., Li, Z. A., Zhu, Q. R., Guo, Z. R., Hu, X. S., Wu, M., Luo, W. S., Liu, J. C., Ding, Y., Gu, S. J., Liu, M. M. Tags: Diabetes Mellitus Source Type: research