SDMS CME Credit – Longitudinal Changes in Cardiac Function Based on Serial Tissue Doppler and Doppler Imaging for Patients With Sickle Cell Anemia

Article: Longitudinal Changes in Cardiac Function Based on Serial Tissue Doppler and Doppler Imaging for Patients With Sickle Cell Anemia

Authors: Dilek Giray, MD, Selma Unal, MD, Hasan Demetgül, MD, Derya Karpuz, MD, and Olgu Hallioglu, MD

Category: Cardiac (Pediatric) [PE]

Credit: 1.0 SDMS CME Credit

Objectives: After studying the article, you should be able to:

• Define Sickle Cell Anemia and who is most commonly affected

• Recognize long term changes in systolic and diastolic heart function

• Describe diagnostic evaluation methods used

1. Sickle cell anemia is caused by the substitution of ___________.

2. Sickling of erythrocytes leads to ___________.

3. Evaluation of all wall movements of the ventricular myocardium is best imaged with which of the following?

4. Exclusion criteria for the study included which of the following?

5. In order to reduce the influence of respiration on myocardial velocities, measures were recorded during ___________.

6. The study observed that systolic and diastolic thickness of left ventricle and interventricular septum did which of the following?

7. The main limitation of the study was an inability to evaluate iron overload because ___________.