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Review
. 2020 Dec 18;56(12):709.
doi: 10.3390/medicina56120709.

Echocardiography, an Indispensable Tool for the Management of Diabetics, with or without Coronary Artery Disease, in Clinical Practice

Konstantinos Katogiannis  1 , Dimitrios Vlastos  2 , Foteini Kousathana  3 , John Thymis  1 , Aikaterini Kountouri  3 , Emmanouil Korakas  3 , Panagiotis Plotas  3 , Konstantinos Papadopoulos  4 , Ignatios Ikonomidis  1 , Vaia Lambadiari  3
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Review

Echocardiography, an Indispensable Tool for the Management of Diabetics, with or without Coronary Artery Disease, in Clinical Practice

Konstantinos Katogiannis et al. Medicina (Kaunas). .

Abstract

Diabetes mellitus is a major factor contributing to the development of cardiovascular disease. As morbidity and mortality rates rise dramatically, when target organ damage develops pre-symptomatic assessment is critical for the management of diabetic patients. Echocardiography is a noninvasive and reproducible method that may aid in risk stratification and in evaluation of treatment effects. The aim of this review is to analyze the echocardiographic techniques which can detect early alteration in cardiac function in patients with diabetes.

Keywords: coronary flow reserve; diabetic cardiomyopathy; doppler echocardiography; speckle tracking echocardiography; stress echocardiography.

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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