CLINICAL RESEARCH
Left ventricular structural and functional changes evaluated by echocardiography and two-dimensional strain in patients with sickle cell disease
 
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Submission date: 2015-10-07
 
 
Final revision date: 2016-02-04
 
 
Acceptance date: 2016-02-05
 
 
Online publication date: 2016-03-23
 
 
Publication date: 2018-04-13
 
 
Arch Med Sci 2018;14(3):493-499
 
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Introduction:
Patients with sickle cell disease have increased left ventricular size, which is not usually accompanied by changes in systolic function indexes. We assessed echocardiographic abnormalities present in patients with sickle cell anemia (SCA) and compared echocardiographic parameters to other sickle cell diseases (OSCD).

Material and methods:
A blind cross-sectional study with 60 patients with SCA and 16 patients with OSCD who underwent transthoracic echocardiography was performed.

Results:
Echocardiographic findings were: left atrial volume index 47.7 ±11.5 ml/m² in SCA group and 31.7 ±8.42 ml/m² in OSCD group (p < 0.001); left ventricular diastolic diameter index 3.47 ±0.37 cm/m² in SCA group and 2.97 ±0.41 cm/m² in OSCD group (p < 0.001); left ventricular systolic diameter index 2.12 ±0.31 cm/m² in SCA group and 1.86 ±0.28 cm/m² in OSCD group (p < 0.001). There were no differences in the left ventricular ejection fraction: 68.2 ±6.69% in SCA group and 67.1 ±6.21% in OSCD group (p = 0.527). The ratio between mitral E wave and mean mitral annulus e’ wave velocities was higher in the SCA group (7.72 ±1.54 vs. 6.70 ±1.65; p = 0.047). Mitral A wave correlated significantly with hemoglobin levels (r = –0.340; p = 0.032).

Conclusions:
There was an increase of left ventricular and left atrial sizes in patients with SCA, compared to patients with OSCD, without changes in systolic or diastolic function in both groups. This could be due to the hyperkinetic state due to the more severe anemia in the SCA subjects.

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