1Effect of Acute Cigarette Smoking on Left and Right Ventricle Filling Parameters: A Conventional and Tissue Doppler Echocardiographic Study in Healthy Participants

More recently, we have showed that acute smoking alters brachial artery endothelial function and carotid artery hemodynamics.6,7 Previously, a few studies have investigated the effect of cigarette smoking on left ventricular function.8-11 However, there has been no study investigating acute effect of cigarette smoking on right ventricular function, par-ticularly in healthy nonsmokers. The aim of this study was to assess the smoking-induced acute changes in left and right ventricular function in healthy nonsmokers. Method In all, 20 healthy nonsmoker subjects (14 men and 6 women, mean = 27 ± 9 years) were included in this study. All participants were asked to refrain fro