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. 2019 May 14;113(8):489–496. doi: 10.1093/trstmh/trz038

Table 7.

Echocardiographic measurement of some right cardiac parameters in SCA subjects with and without PH

Parameter PH group (n=22) No PH group (n=78) Test statistic p-Value
RA area (mm2), mean±SD 821.91±222.9 751.73±197.6 1.43a 0.16
TV annulus diameter (mm), mean±SD 25.57±3.7 25.61±4.06 −0.05a 0.97
MPA diameter (mm), median (IQR) 17.11 16.48 −1.59b 0.11
(15.9–20.5) (14.6–18.14)
RVIDd (cm), mean±SD 2.58±0.7 2.53±0.4 0.37a 0.71
TAPSE (cm), median (IQR) 2.55 2.77 −2.22b 0.03*
(2.2–2.8) (2.4–3.2)
RVAWTd (cm), median (IQR) 0.33 0.33 −1.57b 0.12
(0.28–0.33) (0.28–0.44)

MPA: main pulmonary artery; RVAWTd: right ventricular anterior wall thickness in diastole; RVIDd: right ventricular internal dimension in diastole; TV: tricuspid valve.

aStudent t test.

bMann–Whitney U test.

*Statistically significant.