PMID: 15368803Sep 17, 2004Paper

Assessment of systolic function by atrioventricular plane displacement in patients with diastolic dysfunction

Acta Cardiologica
Dursun DursunoğluMustafa Kiliç

Abstract

Early recognition and appropriate therapy of diastolic dysfunction (DD) is advisable to prevent further progression to diastolic or systolic heart failure and death. The mitral atrioventricular plane displacement (AVPD) method has been shown to be a reliable and simple technique to study left ventricular systolic function in patients, because the mitral annulus can be visualized in almost all patients even if the endocardial borders are difficult to trace. The aim of our study is to estimate the left ventricular ejection fraction by AVPD method (EFAVPD), in addition to Teicholz's short axis method (EF-T) and Simpson's biplane method (EF-2D) in patients with DD. One hundred and two subjects were submitted to complete echocardiographic assessment, and DD was shown in 62 patients. The systolic mitral AVPD was recorded at 4 sites (septal, lateral, anterior, and posterior) using M-mode and left ventricular ejection fraction was calculated from the AVPD-mean in 62 patients with DD (mean age 55.67 +/- 5.65, 24 men and 38 women) and in 40 age-matched control subjects (mean age 54.07 +/- 6.96, 15 men and 25 women). There were no statistically significant group differences related to age, gender, heart rate or body mass index. However, i...Continue Reading

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