Assessment of Atrial function in thalassemic and sickle cell disease children using conventional and 2D speckled tracking echocardiography (STE) /
تقييم الوظائف الاذينية فى الاطفال مرضى انيميا البحر المتوسط وانيميا الخلايا المنجلية باستخدام الطريقة التقليدية وتتبع النقاط ثنائى الابعاد للموجات فوق الصوتية على القلب
Basma Haroun Fawzy Haroun ; Supervised Khaled Mohamed Salama , Mohamed Youssef Abdelrahman , Carolyne Morcos Ibrahim
- Cairo : Basma Haroun Fawzy Haroun , 2016
- 141 P. : charts , facsimiles; 25cm
Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Pediatrics
This study done to know Atrial functions in thalassemic and sickle cell disease children using conventional and 2D speckled tracking echocardiography (STE) It included 15 SCD patients, and 15 thalassemic patients, the study was done on patients of cairo university hospital for pediatrics. The study showed that 80% of sickle cell disease patients have abnormal LA reservoir function and 60% of thalassemic patients have abnormal range of LA reservoir function