title: Left ventricle diastolic dysfunction in diabetes: an update.
abstract: Diabetes mellitus, a disease that has been reaching epidemic proportions, is an important risk factor to the development of cardiovascular complication. Diabetes causes changes within the cardiac structure and function, even in the absence of atherosclerotic disease. The left ventricular diastolic dysfunction (VE) represents the earliest pre-clinical manifestation of diabetic cardiomyopathy, preceding the systolic dysfunction and being able to evolve to symptomatic heart failure. The doppler echocardiography has emerged as an important noninvasive diagnostic tool, providing reliable data in the stages of diastolic function, as well as for systolic function. With the advent of recent echocardiographic techniques, such as tissue Doppler and color M-mode, the accuracy in identifying the moderate diastolic dysfunction, the pseudonormal pattern, has significantly improved. Due to cardio-metabolic repercussions of DM, a detailed evaluation of cardiovascular function in diabetic patients is important, and some alterations may be seen even in patients with gestational diabetes.
authors.affiliation: Laboratório de Pesquisas em Endocrinologia, Departamento de Clínica Médica, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, and Ecocenter-Serviço de Ecocardiografia do Hospital Socor, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.
authors.forename: Cláudia Maria V
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Freire
authors.forename: Ana Luiza M T
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Moura
authors.forename: Márcia de Melo
authors.initials: Mde M
authors.lastname: Barbosa
authors.forename: Lucas José de C
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Machado
authors.forename: Anelise Impeliziere
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: Nogueira
authors.forename: Antônio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ribeiro-Oliveira
mesh_terms: D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D003925:Diabetic Angiopathies / Q000503:physiopathology; D003971:Diastole; D018618:Echocardiography, Doppler, Color / Q000379:methods; D054144:Heart Failure, Diastolic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D054143:Heart Failure, Systolic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology