title: Left ventricular systolic and diastolic function by echocardiogram in pseudoxanthoma elasticum.
abstract: Pseudoxanthoma elasticum is an inherited systemic disease of connective tissue with possible cardiac involvement. Nineteen patients with pseudoxanthoma elasticum without a history of cardiac disease were investigated by echocardiography using standard measurements and tissue Doppler imaging. Systolic function was normal, but diastolic parameters were abnormal in 7 patients. Explanations for these abnormalities could be silent myocardial ischemia due to early coronary involvement and/or the direct consequences of ultrastructural defects of the elastic tissue of the heart.
authors: Department of Cardiology, Centre Hospitalier Régional d'Orléans, Orleans, France. long-dang.nguyen@chr-orleans.fr
authors: Long-Dang
authors: LD
authors: Nguyen
authors: Mohamed
authors: M
authors: Terbah
authors: Patrick
authors: P
authors: Daudon
authors: Ludovic
authors: L
authors: Martin