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Tissue Doppler imaging detects early asymptomatic myocardial abnormalities in a dog model of Duchenne?s cardiomyopathy

Author(s) -

Valérie Chetboul

Publication year - 2004

Publication title -

european heart journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 4.336

H-Index - 293

eISSN - 1522-9645

pISSN - 0195-668X

DOI - 10.1016/j.ehj.2004.09.007

Subject(s) - medicine , duchenne muscular dystrophy , asymptomatic , cardiology , cardiomyopathy , doppler imaging , dilated cardiomyopathy , muscular dystrophy , radiology , heart failure , diastole , blood pressure

Early diagnosis of Duchenne's dilated cardiomyopathy remains a challenge for conventional echocardiography. We sought to determine whether tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) could detect early alteration in myocardial function in a dog model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, i.e. the Golden Retriever Muscular Dystrophy (GRMD).

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