Table 4.

Spearman Rank order correlations of conduit, computed as % of left ventricular (LV) stroke volume, and left atrial (LA) minimum volume, both categorized according to their respective medians (≤32 % and ≤19.08 ml/m²), and the diastolic function indexes used throughout the manuscript

	Mitral E-wave (cm/s)	E/A	Deceleration time (ms)	e’ average (cm/s)	E/e’	Mitral flow propagation velocity (cm/s/m2)	LV mass (g/m2)
Conduit
Number of patients	60	54	57	46	46	57	61
Correlation coefficient, ρ	0.364	0.399	−0.304	−0.145	0.378	−0.0811	0.102
p	0.0044	0.00292	0.0217	0.336	0.0098	0.547	0.431
LA minimum volume
Number of patients	62	55	59	48	48	59	63
Correlation coefficient, ρ	0.549	0.634	−0.462	−0.0317	0.302	−0.146	−0.313
p	0.000005	0.000001	0.00026	0.830	0.0369	0.267	0.0128