Evaluation of left ventricular diastolic function by fractional area change using cine cardiovascular magnetic resonance: a feasibility study

Table 1 Clinical characteristics and echocardiographic variables in the four groups

	Normal	Impaired relaxation	Pseudonormal	Restrictive
Number	15	28	11	5
Age (years)	34.5 ± 15.3	71.1 ± 9.9	62.5 ± 10.5	63.0 ± 10.1
Male	10	21	6	4
Diagnosis		HHD 8	IHD 3	DHCM 1
		IHD 9	AS 1	DCM 4
		AS 1	HCM 3
		HCM 3	DCM 3
			Amyloidosis 1
Echocardiographic variables
LVEF (%)	65.9 ± 6.2	64.4 ± 6.5	56.9 ± 15.0	38.2 ± 10.0
LVDd (mm)	46.6 ± 4.4	46.8 ± 4.5	55.2 ± 7.5	66.4 ± 14.2
LAD (mm)	31.5 ± 3.7	38.1 ± 4.7	42.5 ± 5.5	47.2 ± 7.5
E/A	1.70 ± 0.77	0.69 ± 0.11	1.36 ± 0.22	2.24 ± 0.54
DCT (ms)	205.6 ± 34.9	234.8 ± 31.4	190.2 ± 23.5	143.2 ± 13.6
Ea (cm/s)	10.7 ± 1.9	6.3 ± 1.4	5.7 ± 1.2	4.9 ± 1.6
E/Ea	6.9 ± 1.0	9.5 ± 2.6	13.6 ± 3.3	20.4 ± 8.2

Values are mean ± standard deviation.
HHD hypertensive heart disease, IHD ischemic heart disease, AS aortic valve stenosis, HCM hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, DCM dilated cardiomyopathy, DHCM dilated-phase hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, LVEF left ventricular ejection fraction, LVDd left ventricular end-diastolic dimension, LAD left atrial dimension; E, peak early transmitral filling velocity; A, paek late transmitral filling velocity; DCT, deceleration time of peak E velocity; Ea, early diastolic mitral annular velocity.

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