%0 Journal Article
%T Early detection of myocardial dysfunction in poorly treated pediatric thalassemia children and adolescents: Two Saudi centers experience
%A Ahmed A. Azab
%A Akram E. El-Sadek
%A Ashraf M. Shahin
%A Enas A.A. Abdallah
%A Laila M. Sherief
%A Mohamed H. Ibrahim
%A Mostafa A. Salama
%A Soha A. Ebrahim
%A Waleid E. Abdulghany
%J Archive of "Annals of Medicine and Surgery".
%D 2016
%R 10.1016/j.amsu.2016.05.014
%X Cardiac complications are among the most serious complications in Beta Thalassemia Major Patients. Our aim was to evaluate the value of tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) for early detection of myocardial dysfunction in pediatric and adolescent patients with B-TM before development of overt heart failure or cardiomyopathy
%K Tissue Doppler imaging
%K Myocardial dysfunction
%K Pediatric
%K Thalassaemia
%K Echo-Doppler
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4900296/