TY - BOOK AU - Fawzy Galal Moselhy Fayed AU - Khaled Eid Sobhy , AU - Mahmoud Kamel Ahmed , AU - Reem Ibrahim Mohamed Elkorashy , TI - Assessment of right ventricular function in adult asthmaties by tissue doppler imaging / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Fawzy Galal Moselhy Fayed , KW - Adult asthmaties KW - Right ventricular function KW - Ttissue doppler imaging N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Chest Diseases and Tuberculosis; Issued also as CD N2 - In bronchial asthma, recurrent exposure to hypoxemia leads to sustained pulmonary vasoconstriction and narrowing of the pulmonary vasculature. Consequently, pulmonary hypertension develops leading to right heart enlargement with ventricular hypertrophy, and impaired cardiac function. Diastolic dysfunction of the right ventricle is the earliest hemodynamic change in bronchial asthma ER -