[Left ventricular dysfunction measured in diabetic patients with chronic renal failure on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis].

Background: In diabetic patients with chronic renal failure (CRF) treated with dialysis, the diastolic and systolic left ventricular dysfunction is frequent. The aim was to assess by echocardiography the prevalence of diastolic and systolic ventricular dysfunction in diabetic patients with CRF treated with continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD).

Methods: Sixty diabetic patients with CRF in CAPD were studied.

[Correlation between chest radiography and the echocardiogram to evaluate cardiomegaly in patients with systemic arterial hypertension].

Unlabelled: The chest radiography is used routinely by the clinician as a tool in the scan of patients with systemic arterial hypertension (SAH) to evaluate the dimensions of the heart. However the highest reported sensitivity for the evaluation of heart growth with this method is 77.3% in contrast to the transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE) that reaches between 90 to 100%.