title: [Echocardiography examinations in children suffering from cutaneous forms of scleroderma].
abstract: In 34 children suffering from so called cutaneous forms of scleroderma and in 30 healthy subjects echocardiographic cardiac assessment as well as doppler analysis of mitral valve function was performed. It was found that sclerodermic children suffered more frequently from cardiac valves regurgitation (especially insufficiency of mitral valve). However, these insufficiencies were usually negligible or corresponding to Io. Other changes detected in these children were as follows: significantly higher values of left ventricle shortening fraction, increased left ventricle mass index, and changes of mitral flow which may reflect impaired diasystolic function of left ventricle and, perhaps, impaired left atrium contraction. It is suggested that such changes could be corresponding to the beginning of cardiomyopathy.
authors.affiliation: Kliniki Kardiologii Dzieciecej SI. AM w Katowicach.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Rokicki
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rubisz-Brzezińska
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dukalska
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Gasior
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Rzepecka
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gołba
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008944:Mitral Valve Insufficiency / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology; D012594:Scleroderma, Localized / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D016277:Ventricular Function, Left