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Table 2 Echocardiographic diastolic dysfunction markers

From: Exercise echocardiography for the assessment of pulmonary hypertension in systemic sclerosis: a systematic review

  

First author

Condition

 

Alkotob (n = 65)

Pignone (n = 27)

Huez (n = 25)

D’Alto (n = 172)

Baptista (n = 23)

Gargani (n = 164)

Voilliot (n = 45)

Suzuki (n = 494)

  

Total

Total

≤40 mmHg

>40 mmHg

Total

Total

Total

<50 mHg

≥50 mmHg

<50 mmHg

≥50 mmHg

Total

≤50 mmHg

>50 mmHg

Total

<50 mmHg

≥50 mmHg

Rest

RV E/A

     

0.9

   

1.0*

0.7*

      

LV E/A

1.2

1.1

1.2

1.0

1.3

1.2

1.1

1.1

1.1

  

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.2

1.2*

1.1*

E/e’

      

10.2

9.9

10.5

6.6*

7.5*

6.0

5.5*

6.8*

9.6

9.2*

10.7*

Exercise

RV E/A

     

0.7

           

LV E/A

      

1.2

1.3

1.1

  

1.1

1.1

1.0

   

E/e’

      

10.0

9.4

10.5

  

6.8

5.7*

9.2*

10.7

10.3*

11.8*

  1. Results presented as means. *Comparison between patients with maximum exercise-induced systolic pulmonary arterial pressure (sPAP) <50 mmHg and ≥50 mmHg statistically significantly different (p < 0.05). E/A ratio of early diastolic (E) and late diastolic (A) transvalvular velocities, E/e’ ratio of early diastolic (E) and early diastolic mitral annular velocity (e’), LV left ventricle, RV right ventricle
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