TY - BOOK AU - Mohamed Ahmed Ghaleb Abdelrahman AU - Mohamed Anwar Shalaby , AU - Wafaa Anwar Elaroussy , TI - Role of tissue doppler imaging in correlation with N- terminal pro- brain natriuretic peptide in assessment of left ventricular diastolic function in Egyptian hypertensive patient / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Mohamed Ahmed Ghaleb Abdelrahman , KW - Diastolic dysfunction KW - NT pro BNP KW - System hypertension N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Cardiology; Issued also as CD N2 - Tissue doppler imagine of the mitral annulus may predict the diastolic filling of left ventricle . Objectives : We investigated the patten of diastolic function in a subset of hypertensive patients and evaluated the correlation between mitral annular TDI velocities and plasma level of NT pro BNP and predictive cutoff value to diagnose LV diastolic dysfunction ER -