Evaluation of Myocardial Injury using Standard Diagnostic Tools and Tissue Doppler Imaging in Blunt Trauma Chest
Journal Title: Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research - Year 2017, Vol 11, Issue 6
Abstract
Introduction: Myocardial contusion is an entity in chest trauma which is difficult to diagnose. Current practice relies more on cardiac-specific biochemical markers and standard echocardiography, but no gold standard test exists. The application of Tissue Doppler imaging is yet unexplored. Aim: The present study was designed to evaluate cardiac injury in patients with blunt trauma chest using conventional transthoracic echocardiography parameters and Tissue Doppler imaging. Materials and Methods: After ethical approval was taken from the Hospital and University and a written informed consent from all patients/attendants, this prospective study was conducted on a total of 30 patients in range of 15-60 years of age with blunt trauma chest. Patients with positive Trop-T and raised CPK (> 308 IU/L), raised CK-MB (> 24 IU/L) levels were suspected to have myocardial injury and were enrolled in the study. All patients fulfilling the inclusion criteria then underwent 2D-Echo and Tissue Doppler Imaging. Results of the observations were analysed using chi-square test. Results: Out of the total of 30 patients, 63.3% showed ECG changes suggestive of cardiac injury. A 76.7% patients suffered systolic dysfunction and 36.6% patients suffered diastolic dysfunction irrespective of ECG changes. On comparison of early filling velocity wave i.e., E wave (measured by transthoracic echocardiography) and tricuspid annular velocity Em wave (measured by tissue Doppler echocardiography) at tricuspid valve, we found statistically significant difference among two10.7860/JCDR/2017/22746.10069 techniques. (p = 0.04) Conclusion: Echocardiography is very sensitive parameter for evaluation of myocardial contusion. Tissue Doppler imaging provides additional and reliable information.
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Parshotam lal gautam, neeru luthra, Manpreet Kaur, Jaspal Singh, gurpreet singh wander, Rohit Tandon, Dr. Namrata, Nikhil Gautam
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