Cardiac morphofunctional injuries in patients with hepatitis C virus: doppler echocardiographic evaluation.
OBJECTIVE
To evaluate the possible morphological and functional heart injuries in hepatitis C virus patients.


METHODS
Control-case study analyzing Doppler echocardiographic aspects in 31 hepatitis C virus patients and 20 controls.


RESULTS
There were no significant difference in relation to the myocardial thickening, left ventricular diameters, circumferential shortening, ejection fraction, mitral valve flow velocities, tissue sistolic and diastolic mitral annular ones.


CONCLUSIONS
Individuals with hepatitis C virus in the initial phases of the disease did not show morpho-functional abnormalities of the heart when evaluated by Doppler echocardiography.
Tosta
Carlos
C
Hospital do Servidor Público Estadual, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Ladeira
Ricardo
R
Guz
Betty
B
Pimenta
João
J
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001783:Blood Flow Velocity; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002648:Child; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler; D005260:Female; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D019698:Hepatitis C, Chronic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology / Q000502:physiology; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology