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Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine

Table 2 Conventional RV echo-Doppler measures: comparison between DCM and normal subjects

From: Apical but not basal RV strain reflects right ventricular dysfunction in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy

 

DCM

NL

p value

TAPSE (cm)

1.8 ± 0.5

2.3 ± 0.5

0.022

RVED area (cm2)

23.8 ± 12.0

15.9 ± 3.4

0.000

RVES area (cm2)

17.1 ± 9.1

8.8 ± 2.7

0.000

RV-FAC

0.29 ± 0.10

0.45 ± 0.07

0.000

RVSP (mmHg)

51.8 ± 16.7

30.3 ± 4.0

0.000

RV-Tei

0.70 ± 0.32

0.37 ± 0.14

0.000

  1. All conventional measures of RV function confirmed the presence of RV dysfunction in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy
  2. [TAPSE: tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion, RVED area: RV end-diastolic area, RVES area: RV end-systolic area, RV-FAC: RV fractional area change, RVSP: RV systolic pressure]. Other abbreviations are the same as in Table 1
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