Usefulness of tissue Doppler imaging for estimation of left ventricular filling pressures in patients with systolic and diastolic heart failure.
The diagnostic usefulness of the mitral E/E' ratio (derived from tissue Doppler imaging) as an estimate of left ventricular filling pressures was studied in 28 patients with diastolic heart failure (defined by heart failure signs and symptoms but with preserved ejection fraction) and in 46 patients with systolic heart failure (heart failure signs and symptoms and reduced ejection fraction). E/E' was reflective of filling pressures in subjects with diastolic and systolic heart failure and may be of special use in ruling out elevated filling pressures in subjects with suspected diastolic heart failure.
Bruch
Christian
C
Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hospital of the University of Münster, Münster, Germany. bruchc@uni-muenster.de
Grude
Matthias
M
Müller
Joachim
J
Breithardt
Günter
G
Wichter
Thomas
T
D000368:Aged; D003971:Diastole; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler; D005260:Female; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013599:Systole; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology