title: [Echocardiographic evaluation of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in patients with diabetes mellitus].
abstract: The presence of diabetic cardiomyopathy, without any sign of hypertension, valvular or coronary artery disease, is related to diastolic dysfunction, an early sign of diabetic heart muscle disease. Doppler echocardiography evaluation should be performed for all patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and microalbuminuria, in order to obtain a better management of this metabolic disease.
authors.affiliation: Spitalul Judeţean Ilfov "Sfinţii Impăraţi C-tin si Elena", Bucureşti.
authors.forename: Alice
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bălăceanu
authors.forename: Angela
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sopa
authors.forename: Camelia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Diaconu
authors.forename: Ecaterina
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ionescu
mesh_terms: D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D003971:Diastole; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology