Table 2.
Echocardiographic measurements in BACCARAT protocol
| - Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction measured using Simpson’s biplane method |
| - Left ventricular end-diastolic volume measured using Simpson’s biplane method |
| - Left ventricular end-systolic volume measured using Simpson’s biplane method |
| - Left ventricular end-diastolic diameter measured using M-mode |
| - Left ventricular mass measured according to ASE/EAE guidelines |
| - Global and segmental longitudinal strain |
| - Global and segmental longitudinal strain rate |
| - Global and segmental radial strain rate |
| - Global and segmental radial strain rate |
| - E/A wave ratio |
| - E/Ea wave ratio (lateral annulus) |
| - TAPSE (tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion) |
| - Tricuspid annular S wave |
| - Systolic pulmonary arterial pressure (based on a measure assuming a right atrial pressure of 5 mmHg) |
| - Left ventricular outflow tract diameter |
| - Left ventricular outflow tract velocity time integral |
| - Heart rate |
| - Cardiac output measured by multiplying heart rate by stroke volume |
Bold data are major index taken into account for subclinical cardiac event