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Published in final edited form as: Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2011 Sep 23;4(6):662–670. doi: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.111.965764

Table 2.

Predictor of Cardiac Function Evaluation by Cine CMR

	Cardiac Function Evaluation by Cine CMR in patients with Left-sided ICD/BiV-ICD		P-Value
	Possible N=47 Scans	Impossible N=8 Scans	P-Value
Age	58±14	64±20	0.27
Female/Male	7/39	1/7	0.84
Body Mass Index [kg/m²]	26.9±3.9	23.1±2.8	0.019*
Ejection Fraction [%]	34.0±16.1	34.0±17.1	0.996
Left Ventricular End-Diastolic Diameter [mm]	55.3±10.8	65.0±7.7	0.045*
Artifact Size on Short Axis of Cine MRI [cm²]	200.3±32.4	186.6±19.7	0.478
Minimum Distance from Generator to Heart [mm]
Frontal Chest X-ray	31.7±20.9	15.7±15.0	0.08
Lateral Chest X-ray	32.2±4.0	33.2±3.6	0.58
Generator
Height*Width [cm²]	38.7±6.4	39.2±7.5	0.82
Thickness [mm]	13.0±1.8	13.0±1.7	0.99
Weight [g]	80.6±8.3	81.5±7.2	0.78
Volume [cc]	36.1±5.9	35.1±5.0	0.65

Values are shown as mean ± SD or N.

Significant P-Value defined as P<0.05 are shown by the asterisk (*).