Right ventricular myocardial diastolic dysfunction in different kinds of cardiac hypertrophy: analysis by pulsed Doppler tissue imaging.

Abstract

The impairment of RV myocardial relaxation is much more evident in HCM than in LVH, its degree being independently associated with the extent of both the septal and RV wall thickness. Pulsed DTI may be useful to distinguish the extent of RV myocardial dysfunction in different types of cardiac hypertrophy.