ea0056p881 | Pituitary - Clinical | ECE2018
Popielarz-Grygalewicz Agata
, Ste Maria
, Gesior Jakub
, Konwicka Aleksandra
, Grygalewicz Pawel
, Zgliczynski Wojciech
, Debrowski Marek
Introduction: Cardiac disease called acromegalic cardiomyopathy may be present in patients with acromegaly at diagnosis, however most echocardiographic studies showed that systolic function in these patients is normal. Speckle tracking echocardiography (STE) is a novel method that allows for the study of global longitudinal strain (GLS), a marker of early and subclinical left ventricular (LV) systolic dysfunction.Objective: To evaluate left ventricular G...