TY - BOOK AU - Salah Abdulla Mubarak Bamahriz AU - Hossam Eldin Ghanem Elhossary , AU - Mohamed Mahmoud Abdelghany , AU - Waleed Abdelsalam Amar , TI - Assessment of right ventricular function in asymptomatic diabetic patients : : A conventional echocardiographic and tissue doppler imaging study / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Salah Abdulla Mubarak Bamahriz , KW - Diabetes mellitus KW - Right ventricle KW - Tissue doppler imaging N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Cardiology; Issued also as CD N2 - Diabetes is thoroughly evidenced to increase the risk of development of heart failure. Cardiac adverse effects influenced by diabetes have been demonstrated for the left ventricle function. Hence, the purpose of the present study was to investigate whether diabetes has any affect on the right ventricular function. Standard and tissue doppler echocardiography was performed on fifty asymptomatic diabetic patients and fifteen healthy volunteers. We assessed the right ventricular function by measuring the right ventricular Sm. Em. Am. E-A m and IVRTm UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -