Table 4.
Summary of cardiac investigations.
| Case number | ECG findings | TTE findings |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TAPSE, mm | TR severity | LVEF, % | Probability of pulmonary hypertension | PAP, mmHg | ||
| 1 | Sinus tachycardia, right ventricular strain pattern, S1Q3T3 | 25.5 | Trivial | 55–60 | Low | 17 |
| 2 | Nil | – | – | – | – | – |
| 3 | Right ventricular strain pattern | – | – | – | – | – |
| 4 | Right ventricular strain pattern | – | – | – | – | – |
| 5 | Nil | 17.8 | Trivial | 60–65 | Intermediate | – |
| 6 | Nil | 11.0 | Trivial | 59 | Low | 16 |
| 7 | Sinus tachycardia | – | – | – | – | – |
| 8 | Sinus tachycardia | 22.0 | Trivial | 60–65 | Low | 16 |
| 9 | Sinus tachycardia, right ventricular strain pattern, right axis deviation | – | – | – | – | – |
| 10 | Sinus tachycardia | – | – | – | – | – |
| 11 | Nil | – | – | – | – | – |
| 12 | Atrial fibrillation | 20.0 | Trivial | 62 | Intermediate | 44 |
| 13 | Nil | – | – | – | – | – |
| 14 | Sinus tachycardia, right ventricular strain pattern | – | – | – | – | – |
| 15 | Right ventricular strain pattern | 25.0 | Trivial | 60–65 | – | – |
ECG = Electrocardiogram; TTE = Transthoracic echocardiogram; TAPSE = Tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion; TR = Tricuspid regurgitation; LVEF = Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction; PAP = Pulmonary Arterial Pressures.