title: [Diastolic function in patients with coronary artery disease before and after CABG].
abstract: We evaluated diastolic cardiac function in 16 patients with coronary artery disease before and after coronary angioplasty using transesophageal echocardiography. Peak early diastolic and late diastolic filling velocities (E wave and A wave) and velocity time integrals of early and late diastolic filling (VTI-E and VTI-A) were measured by pulsed doppler echocardiography. The patients were divided into two groups: Group A; E/A > or = 1. Group B; E/A < 1. There were statistical differences between the two groups in E-acceleration time and VTI 0-33%/ total VTI at pre-coronary angioplasty period (P < 0.05). There were statistical differences in E-decelaration time and E-decelaration slope of group B before and after coronary angioplasty (p < 0.05). These results suggest that the left ventricular diastolic function in group B has recovered partly at one hour after coronary angioplasty.
authors.affiliation: Saitama Prefectural Ohara-Cardiovascular Center, Saitama.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kadoi
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kawahara
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Fujita
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*; D003971:Diastole; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011184:Postoperative Period; D016277:Ventricular Function, Left