Table 2.

Correlations of plasma and pericardial fluid concentrations of total immunoreactive adrenomedullin (tAM) and mature form adrenomedullin (mAM) with haemodynamic variables

	tAM in plasma		tAM in pericardial fluid		mAM in plasma		mAM in pericardial fluid
Variable	r	p Value	r	p Value	r	p Value	r	p Value
Age (years)	-0.094	0.51	0.004	0.98	0.15	0.31	-0.065	0.65
Heart rate (beats/min)	0.20	0.17	0.22	0.12	0.088	0.54	0.12	0.42
MAP (mm Hg)	-0.13	0.35	-0.014	0.92	0.10	0.47	-0.034	0.81
LVEDVI (ml/m2)	0.35	0.016	0.60	<0.0001	0.28	0.053	0.60	<0.0001
LVESVI (ml/m2)	0.41	0.0043	0.66	<0.0001	0.25	0.078	0.63	<0.0001
LVEF (%)	0.41	0.0044	-0.59	<0.0001	-0.19	0.19	-0.54	0.0001
LVMI (g/m2)	0.38	0.0082	0.47	0.0010	0.36	0.012	0.47	0.0011
LVEDP (mm Hg)	0.18	0.22	0.27	0.064	0.081	0.57	0.16	0.22

LVEDP, left ventricular end diastolic pressure; LVEDVI, left ventricular end diastolic volume index; LVEF, left ventricular ejection fraction; LVESVI, left ventricular end systolic volume index; LVMI, left ventricular mass index; MAP, mean aortic pressure.