TY - BOOK AU - Maged Ali Gubran Albasmi AU - Essam Baligh Eweis Hussien , AU - Heba Farouk Saleh , AU - Samah Selim Abdelnaiem , TI - Echocardiographic evaluation of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Maged Ali Gubran Albasmi , KW - Cardiovascular diseases KW - COPD KW - Echocardiography N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Cardiology; Issued also as CD N2 - Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are a major co - morbidity in COPD and probably both the most frequent and most important disease coexisting with COPD . The aim of our study is to assess the left and right ventricular systolic and diastolic functions in COPD patients using the conventional echocardiographic parameters and tissue Dopller imaging , to correlate the left ventricular diastolic function with the resting heart rate and to correlate the left and right ventricular systolic and diastolic functions with the severity of the COPD UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -