Cardiac morphofunctional injuries in patients with hepatitis C virus: doppler echocardiographic evaluation.

Objective: To evaluate the possible morphological and functional heart injuries in hepatitis C virus patients.

Methods: Control-case study analyzing Doppler echocardiographic aspects in 31 hepatitis C virus patients and 20 controls.

Results: There were no significant difference in relation to the myocardial thickening, left ventricular diameters, circumferential shortening, ejection fraction, mitral valve flow velocities, tissue sistolic and diastolic mitral annular ones.