title: [Prognostic value of echocardiographic parameters in chronic cardiac insufficiency].
abstract: This work was interested in 72 patients (81% males) with chronic heart insufficiency. Ail these patients had a sinusal rythme. The etiology was mainly idiopathic (36%) but also ischemic (64%). 15% of patients were at stage I of NYHA, 37.5% at NYHA II, 40.5% at NYHA III and 7% at NYHA IV. All patients had taken a medical treatment (in 85% of cases, this treatment was based on diuretics and IEC). Transthoracic echocardiography was performed in these patients to determine the telediastolic diameter (TDD = 69 mm), the telesystolic diameter (TSD = 57), the velocity of E wave (0.66 mis) and A wave (0.55 mis) and the E wave deceleration time (DT = 0.196 s), 11 from ali patients were dead after a period of observation 21 months. The factors of pejorative prognostic were: the stages III and IV of NYHA, the cardiothoracic ratio > 0.60 and the echocardiographic parameters: TDD, TSD and DT (p = 0.03, p = 0.02 and p = 0.0001 respectively). But the E and A velocity seems don't influence the prognostic.
authors.affiliation: Service de cardiologie Hôpital Habib Thameur, Tunis.
authors.forename: Sondos
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kraiem
authors.forename: Anis
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sfaxi
authors.forename: Kais
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Battikh
authors.forename: Salma
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Longo
authors.forename: Lilia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bouraoui
authors.forename: Mouna
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Terras
authors.forename: Youssef
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ben Ameur
authors.forename: Mohamed Lotfi
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Slimane
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001146:Arrhythmia, Sinus / Q000150:complications; D002303:Cardiac Output, Low / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D011379:Prognosis