title: [Left ventricular function in young type I diabetic patients. A Doppler echocardiography study].
abstract: Systolic and diastolic left ventricular function was assessed by M-mode and pulsed Doppler echocardiography in 10 young type I diabetic patients without late complications and maximal diabetes duration of 5 years and in 10 healthy persons. Fractional shortening, a measure of systolic ventricular function, was significantly lower in diabetics than in controls (33.9 +/- 2.9 vs. 37.9 +/- 4.9; p less than 0.05). Fractional shortening decreased significantly with advancing diabetes duration (R = -0.819; p less than 0.01). Indexes of diastolic ventricular function (isovolumetric relaxation period and transmitral flow velocity pattern) were not significantly different in the two groups, but 3 patients had 1 parameter (3x isovolumetric relaxation period) and another patient had 2 parameters (isovolumetric relaxation period and early diastolic peak velocity E-E') outside the normal range. Follow-up studies should define the clinical significance of these alterations of systolic and diastolic left ventricular function.
authors.affiliation: Interne Abteilung, Krankenhaus der Barmherzigen Brüder, Eisenstadt.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Juhasz
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Silberbauer
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ohrenberger
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Winhofer
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001783:Blood Flow Velocity / Q000502:physiology; D002306:Cardiac Volume / Q000502:physiology; D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000503:physiopathology; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000503:physiopathology*; D003971:Diastole / Q000502:physiology; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler; D005260:Female; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009200:Myocardial Contraction / Q000502:physiology*; D013599:Systole / Q000502:physiology
vernacular_title: Die Linksventrikelfunktion bei jungen Typ I-Diabetikern. Eine Doppler-echokardiographische Studie.