George Thomas
Saraf Hospital, India
Title: Tissue Doppler echocardiography after 25 years- Clinical utility or technological hype?
Biography
Biography: George Thomas
Abstract
Tissue Doppler has been around for over 25 years. In spite of the large number of published papers in reputed journals, this has been an unsound modality. This is because of the flawed data collection. In tissue Doppler both the measurement and Doppler principles are compromised making it totally unacceptable. The play of colors and the fanciful waveforms have misguided us. Doppler is best suited for flow studies and applying it to tissue motion is illogical. Due to the basic faults in the application of measurement and Doppler principles all data obtained by tissue Doppler is scientifically incorrect. This makes all the published papers on the subject flawed. Making diagnostic decisions based on this faulty application of technology would be unacceptable to the scientific cardiologist. In this presentation I will be discussing the basic flaws in this technology based on the papers published by me.
