Doppler evaluation of left ventricular diastolic filling in Behçet's disease

Cardiovascular Involvement in Behçet's Disease

“…9-12 Komsuoglu et al 10 reported that MEDT and IVRT were significantly prolonged and the ME/MA ratio was lower in patients with BD compared with the control group. Gemici et al 12 showed that ME, MA and ME/MA ratio were similar, but IVRT and MEDT were significantly prolonged in patients.…”

“…In our study, the dimensions of LV were higher in control group, but conventional indices of LV systolic function were similar between groups like previous studies. [10][11][12] Myocardial performance index is an easy, reproducible, quantitative method to evaluate both LV systolic and diastolic function, independent from heart rate and blood pressure. We detected that MPI was significantly higher in Behçet group, and greater MPI was consistent with impaired LV function 15 as in a previous study of Tavil et al 35 Consistently, MS´ was significantly lower in Behçet group in our study.…”

“…[4][5][6][7][8] To date, there have been several studies investigating the cardiac functions in BD. [9][10][11][12][13][14] In those studies, conventional echocardiography has been used for the assessment of cardiac function. However, several controversial results were obtained particularly regarding diastolic functions.…”

“…However, several controversial results were obtained particularly regarding diastolic functions. [9][10][11][12][13][14] Hence, novel methods for more objective estimation of the cardiac functions such as tissue Doppler echocardiography (TDE) or Doppler-derived myocardial performance index (MPI) might be helpful in BD. Such as, MPI, which combines both systolic and diastolic function, 15 ventricular dyssynchrony, which indicates heterogeneity of contraction time between different myocardial segments, may give a better reflection of the global left ventricular (LV) function than conventional echocardiography, though, to our knowledge, these have not been investigated so far.…”

Vascular Manifestations of Behçet’s Disease

“…There is a relationship between the duration of BD and cardiac involvement. As the duration of BD lengthens, the development of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction increases [115,116].…”