Table 3.
Baseline echocardiographic parameters of heart failure with improved ejection fraction (HFimpEF) and non-recovered heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (non-recovered HFrEF)
| Parameter | Non-recovered HFrEF (n = 80) |
HFimpEF (n = 96) |
P | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean ± SD | Min, max | Mean ± SD | Min, max | ||
| LVEF | 32.88 ± 5.03 | (22.00, 39.20) | 33.57 ± 4.50 | (22.00, 39.20) | 0.540 |
| Ao diam | 2.01 ± 0.18 | (1.70, 2.70) | 2.01 ± 0.35 | (1.70, 2.70) | 0.892 |
| LA diam | 3.77 ± 0.55 | (2.90, 4.80) | 4.02 ± 0.91 | (2.10, 6.10) | 0.154 |
| La/Ao | 1.86 ± 0.38 | (0.60, 2.47) | 2.09 ± 0.72 | (1.10, 3.83) | 0.296 |
| FS | 23.01 ± 8.93 | (12.00, 49.00) | 25.02 ± 6.99 | (12.50, 48.95) | 0.059 |
| IVSd | 1.80 ± 3.14 | (0.60, 2.01) | 1.04 ± 0.44 | (0.30, 2.01) | 0.223 |
| IVSs | 1.58 ± 0.58 | (0.30, 2.40) | 1.67 ± 0.46 | (0.50,2.40) | 0.705 |
| LVIDd | 5.32 ± 0.66 | (3.54,6.90) | 5.04 ± 0.68 | (3.47, 6.20) | 0.085 |
| LVIDs | 3.41 ± 0.87 | (2.01, 5.70) | 3.22 ± 0.69 | (2.01, 4.43) | 0.378 |
| LVPWd | 1.22 ± 1.24 | (0.43, 2.01) | 1.02 ± 0.32 | (0.63, 2.01) | 0.332 |
| LVPWs | 1.56 ± 0.32 | (1.00, 2.10) | 1.68 ± 0.44 | (1.00, 2.62) | 0.269 |
| RWT | 0.31 ± 0.02 | (0.28, 0.40) | 0.31 ± 0.33 | (0.26, 0.48) | 0.990 |
| TAPSE | 13.5 ± 4.80 | (10.0, 28.0) | 19.2 ± 4.30 | (10.3, 28.0) | < 0.001∗ |
| RV S′ | 10.20 ± 2.17 | (5.51, 15.00) | 10.72 ± 3.36 | (6.09, 22.00) | 0.706 |
| LAVi | 49.54 ± 15.96 | (25.60,102.0) | 39.08 ± 18.32 | (21.60, 140.7) | < 0.001∗ |
| Mitral E/A | 1.59 ± 0.80 | (0.30, 3.10) | 1.62 ± 0.78 | (0.30, 4.19) | 0.993 |
| E/e′ (septal) | 12.78 ± 6.71 | (2.16, 33.00) | 13.92 ± 7.38 | (5.00, 33.00) | 0.721 |
| IVC diam | 12.0 ± 29.0 | (8.23, 21.72) | 18.71 ± 3.02 | (8.22, 24.77) | < 0.001∗ |
Ao, aortic root; d, end diastole; diam, diameter; FS, fractional shortening; IVC, inferior vena cava;; IVS, interventricular septal; LA, left atrial; LAVi, left atrial volume index; LV, left ventricular; LVEF, LV ejection fraction; LVID, LV internal diameter; LVPW, LV posterior wall; max, maximum; min, minimum; RV S′, systolic excursion velocity; RWT, relative wall thickness; s, end systole; SD, standard deviation; TAPSE, tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion.
∗
Significance.