Table 5.

Correlations Between Left Ventricular Diastolic Measures, Septal Shift, and Prolonged Right Ventricular Systole

Left Ventricular Diastolic Variable	End-Systolic Eccentricity Index		End-Diastolic Eccentricity Index		Prolonged Right Ventricular Systole
	r	P Value	r	P Value	r	P Value
Pulmonary Vein
S	−0.46	<0.0001*	−0.49	<0.0001*	−0.47	<0.0001*
D	−0.37	0.0004*	−0.30	0.0056*	−0.33	0.0012*
S/D Ratio	−0.09	0.42	−0.14	0.20	−0.10	0.37
A	0.06	0.59	0.03	0.77	0.10	0.37
A Duration	0.40	0.0004*	0.33	0.0042*	0.32	0.0053*
Mitral Valve
E	−0.24	0.0266*	−0.17	0.13	−0.36	0.0002*
A	0.09	0.43	−0.04	0.70	0.13	0.20
E/A	−0.15	0.17	0.001	0.99	−0.23	0.0308*
E Deceleration Time	0.34	0.0014*	0.38	0.0002*	0.32	0.0018*
Tissue Doppler Imaging
Lateral Mitral E′	−0.45	<0.0001*	−0.35	0.0010*	−0.42	<0.0001*
Lateral Mitral A′	−0.18	0.10	−0.25	0.0229*	−0.05	0.67
Lateral Mitral E′/A′	−0.22	0.0494*	−0.12	0.29	−0.37	0.0002*
Septal E′	−0.58	<0.0001*	−0.45	<0.0001*	−0.55	<0.0001*
Septal A′	−0.30	0.0061*	−0.31	0.0039*	−0.18	0.07
Isovolumic Relaxation Time	0.44	<0.0001*	0.35	0.0008*	0.36	0.0008*
Mitral Valve E/E′	0.34	0.0017*	0.29	0.0080*	0.27	0.0086*
Speckle-Tracking Echocardiography
Global DLSR	−0.32	0.0027*	−0.30	0.0052*	−0.14	0.24
Basal Global DCSR	−0.35	0.0011*	−0.43	<0.0001*	−0.20	0.08
Mid Global DCSR	−0.22	0.0369*	−0.23	0.0314*	−0.07	0.53
Apical Global DCSR	−011	0.34	−0.16	0.13	−0.13	0.26
Apical Recoil	−0.24	0.0327*	−0.21	0.07	−0.33	0.0056*
Basal Recoil	−0.18	0.11	−0.10	0.40	−0.12	0.32
Indexed Diastolic Untwist Rate	−0.13	0.27	−0.14	0.22	−0.29	0.0133*

S indicates systolic pulmonary vein flow; D, diastolic pulmonary vein flow; A, pulmonary vein flow during atrial contraction; E, early transmitral flow velocity; A, late transmitral flow velocity; E′, peak early diastolic myocardial annular velocity; A′, peak late diastolic myocardial annular velocity; DLSR, diastolic longitudinal strain rate; DCSR, diastolic circumferential strain rate.

^*P<0.05.