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. 2021 Feb 10;110(6):884–894. doi: 10.1007/s00392-021-01812-3

Table 2.

Echocardiographic patient profile

No pre-existing RV dilatation
N = 747
Pre-existing RV dilatation
N = 243
P value
Pre-pacemaker
No or mild TR 579 (77.5%) 148 (60.9%) < 0.001
Moderate TR 131 (17.5%) 60 (24.7%)
Severe TR 37 (5.0%) 35 (14.4%)
Post-pacemaker
No or mild TR 476 (63.7%) 75 (30.9%) < 0.001
Moderate TR 216 (28.9%) 85 (35.0%)
Severe TR 55 (7.4%) 83 (34.2%)
Pre-pacemaker
Left ventricular function
Normal 431 (57.8%) 97 (39.9%) < 0.001
Mild reduction 121 (16.2%) 44 (18.1%)
Moderate reduction 100 (13.4%) 35 (14.4%)
Severe reduction 94 (12.6%) 67 (27.6%)
Mitral regurgitation
No or mild 343 (53.3%) 61 (32.3%) < 0.001
Moderate 254 (39.4%) 83 (43.9%)
Severe 47 (7.3%) 45 (23.8%)
sPAP (mmHg) 44.7 ± 14.2 58.2 ± 17.6 < 0.001
LVEDD indexed (mm/m2) 25.4 ± 4.4 27.2 ± 5.4 < 0.001
LA (mm) 61 ± 10 70 ± 11 < 0.001
RVEDD (mm) 33 ± 4 43 ± 6 < 0.001
Right ventricular function
Normal 598 (85.2%) 86 (39.4%) < 0.001
Mild reduction 76 (10.8%) 64 (29.4%)
Moderate reduction 21 (3.0%) 48 (22.0%)
Severe reduction 7 (1.0%) 20 (9.2%)
RA (mm) 59 ± 10 72 ± 45 < 0.001
TR-Vmax (m/s) 2.93 ± 0.64 3.09 ± 0.65 0.004

Values are mean ± SD, N (%), or median (interquartile range), unless otherwise indicated. P values < 0.05 in bold

LA left atrium, LVEDD left ventricular end-diastolic diameter, RA right atrium, RV right ventricle, RVEDD right ventricular end-diastolic diameter, sPAP systolic pulmonary artery pressure, TR tricuspid regurgitation, TR-Vmax peak tricuspid regurgitation velocity