All subjects underwent Doppler echocardiography. Twenty-one percent of subjects had mild diastolic dysfunction, and 7% had moderate-to-severe diastolic dysfunction; only a quarter of those with ...

Conventional echocardiography combined with new ... based studies revealed a higher prevalence of LV systolic and diastolic dysfunction using the new echocardiographic imaging techniques.

The study highlights association of IBD with left ventricular and atrial dysfunction, arrhythmias & heart ...