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Published in final edited form as: ASAIO J. 2020 Sep-Oct;66(9):1016–1024. doi: 10.1097/MAT.0000000000001145

Table 1 –

Left ventricular parameters before and after LV thinning

	Before	After	p-value
Heart weight (kg)	0.82 ± 0.15	0.45 ± 0.08	<0.005
LV wall thickness (mm)
Basal	35.26 ± 5.34	13.61 ± 2.45	<0.0001
Equatorial	36.45 ± 4.57	12.48 ± 3.08	<0.0001
Apical	31.92 ± 4.65	11.21 ± 2.94	0.0001
LVID (mm)
Basal	30.40 ± 6.57	68.56 ± 9.02	<0.0001
Equatorial	24.90 ± 3.93	72.80 ± 5.26	<0.0001
Apical	15.53 ± 3.77	60.79 ± 7.20	<0.0001
LV sphericity
Long axis (mm)	73.5 ± 9.2	114.5 ± 10.7	0.0012
Short axis (mm)	26.9 ± 5.2	77.7 ± 6.5	<0.0001
Sphericity index (%)	37.1 ± 7.9	68.1 ± 6.3	<0.0001

LV area (mm²)	1869.5 ± 761.9	6585.2 ± 1450.3	0.0004
LV volume (ml)	46.9 ± 29.8	338.6 ± 108.7	0.0004