The Right ventricle and cardiac surgery - more resilient than thought: multiparametric quantification shows altered rather than reduced function

Table 1 Changes on right ventricular function and apical motion after surgery

	Pre-surgery mean value	Post-surgery mean value	p value
RVED (ml)	111 ± 33	115 ± 31	0.058
RVEF (%)	68 ± 6	65 ± 9	0.05
RVSV (ml)	75 ± 14	78 ± 13	0.218
Tricuspid annular displacement	21 ± 4	12 ± 4	<0.005
TAPSEout (mm)	19 ± 4	11 ± 3	<0.001
RV apical motion (mm)	5 ± 3.7	7.7 ± 4.9	<0.001
TAPSEin (mm)	24 ± 7	19 ± 5	<0.001

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