Effectiveness of left ventricular contractility index in diagnosing myocardial iron loading in thalassaemia patients

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Main Author:	Chua, Jing Ying.
Other Authors:	Chua Leok Poh
Format:	Theses and Dissertations
Published:	2010
Subjects:	DRNTU::Engineering::Bioengineering
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10356/35974
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spelling	sg-ntu-dr.10356-359742023-03-11T17:00:05Z Effectiveness of left ventricular contractility index in diagnosing myocardial iron loading in thalassaemia patients Chua, Jing Ying. Chua Leok Poh School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering DRNTU::Engineering::Bioengineering 63 p. Iron overloading resulting in cardiac failure is the leading cause of death in thalassaemic major patients. Patients' lives can be saved with appropriate therapy if the myocardiopathy is detected in its early stages. As liver iron or serum ferritin are not able to detect cardiac iron loading in the early stages, myocardial T2* is used. T2*>20ms is related to impaired myocardial ventricular function, which could be due to the iron overloading of the ventricular muscles. Currently, cardiac iron overloading in patients is detected by Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), which is expensive. Master of Science (Biomedical Engineering) 2010-04-23T02:21:19Z 2010-04-23T02:21:19Z 2006 2006 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10356/35974 application/pdf
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title	Effectiveness of left ventricular contractility index in diagnosing myocardial iron loading in thalassaemia patients
title_short	Effectiveness of left ventricular contractility index in diagnosing myocardial iron loading in thalassaemia patients
title_full	Effectiveness of left ventricular contractility index in diagnosing myocardial iron loading in thalassaemia patients
title_fullStr	Effectiveness of left ventricular contractility index in diagnosing myocardial iron loading in thalassaemia patients
title_full_unstemmed	Effectiveness of left ventricular contractility index in diagnosing myocardial iron loading in thalassaemia patients
title_sort	effectiveness of left ventricular contractility index in diagnosing myocardial iron loading in thalassaemia patients
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Effectiveness of left ventricular contractility index in diagnosing myocardial iron loading in thalassaemia patients

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