Publications of Faculty of Medicine:Strain Rate Imaging For the Evaluation of Left Ventricular Function After PatentDuctusArteriosus Closure—: Abstract

Ductal closure may affect systolic and diastolic left ventricular (LV) function.We planned this study to evaluate the effect ofsurgical ligation ofpatent ductus arteriosus (PDA) onLVsystolic and diastolic function, correlating traditional methods to Doppler tissue imaging (DTI) based mitral annulus velocities and its new application strain rate imaging.