[Uncorrected Tetralogy of Fallot--a case report of a 69-year-old patient].

Tetralogy of Fallot (ToF) is the most common cyanotic congenital heart defect. The actual treatment relies on cardio-surgery--complete correction within the infant age. Without surgery only 10% of subjects survived 3rd decade and only 3-5% of subjects were able to survive until their 40th.

[Analysis of left ventricular function using 2-dimensional and pulsed Doppler echocardiography in type I diabetics].

In 44 patients with type I diabetes mellitus divided into a group of 29 patients (mean age 25 years, duration of diabetes 6 years on the average) without microangdiopathic complications and into a second group of 15 patients (mean age 31 years, duration of diabetes 16 years on the average) with retinopathy and/or nephropathy, parameters of cardiac function were studied by means of two-dimensional (2D) and pulsed Doppler (PD) echocardiography. The obtained results were compared with findings recorded in a third group of 20 healthy subjects (mean age 29 years). 2D measurements of parameters such as ejection fraction, diastolic diameter of left ventricle (LV), thickness of septum and posterior wall did not reveal any significant differences between the groups studied.

[Differences in reference values in 2-dimensional echocardiography in men and women].

A total of 126 voluntary blood donors (90 men, mean age 30 +/- 0.5 yrs, and 36 women, mean age 34 +/- 0.5 yrs) were examined to establish standards for two-dimensional echocardiography.

[Diabetic cardiomyopathy].

The literature on the new nosologic unit diabetic cardiomyopathy is reviewed and the justification of the assigned term is discussed. Current knowledge on the epidemiology and pathological findings is presented. Particular attention is paid to noninvasive methods, especially echocardiography in patients with type I diabetes mellitus.

[Left ventricular function in patients with recent onset of type I diabetes mellitus].

Left ventricular heart function was investigated by means of two dimensional (2D) echocardiography and pulsed Doppler (PD) echocardiography in 17 young consecutive patients aged 17-38 years (mean 26.6 y.) with type I diabetes mellitus of short duration (mean 5.