Table 4.
Correlations between left ventricular global longitudinal strain (LV-GLS), other TTE parameters, and laboratory data in patients with diastolic dysfunction (DD) coinciding or not with altered left ventricular systolic function (LV-SF).
| LV−GLS | Age | LVEF Simpson |
MAPSE | TRVMax | RV−GLS | E/e’ | TCT Score |
CK−MB | CRP | Inter-Leukin6 | Fibri-Nogen |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R | 0.272 | −0.797 | −0.734 | 0.507 | 0.290 | 0.265 | 0.367 | 0.631 | 0.390 | 0.404 | 0.312 |
| p | 0.002 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.001 | 0.003 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 95%CI | 0.093 | −0.864 | −0.828 | 0.343 | 0.108 | 0.080 | 0.182 | 0.494 | 0.220 | 0.234 | 0.129 |
| 0.416 | −0.706 | −0.622 | 0.640 | 0.467 | 0.452 | 0.540 | 0.737 | 0.560 | 0.556 | 0.494 |
Legend: LV-SF—left ventricular systolic function; TTE—transthoracic echocardiography; DD—diastolic dysfunction; LVEF—left ventricular ejection fraction; MAPSE—mitral annular plane systolic excursion; TRVmax—peak tricuspid regurgitation velocity; RV-GLS—right ventricular global longitudinal strain; E/e’—early mitral inflow diastolic velocity E to average e′ velocity in pulsed tissue Doppler; TCT—thorax computer tomography. CK-MB—creatin-kinase MB. CRP—C reactive protein. Spearman correlation test.