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Table 1 Methodological differences among recent studies

From: Echographic evaluation of ICU patients with tissue Doppler imaging: more studies and more consensus are still needed

Authors and

study

Number of

patients

Site of the tissue Doppler analysis

Simple beat or

averaged beats

Respiratory

cycle

Weng et al. [4]

61

Septal + lateral wall averaged

Three consecutive beats averaged

Not specified

Moschietto et al. [2]

68

Lateral wall

Three beats averaged

End-expiratory

Landesberg et al. [3]

262

Septal and lateral (septal value used for E/Ea calculation)

Not specified

Not specified

  1. E/Ea, pulsed Doppler mitral flow in early diastole/early diastolic mitral annulus velocity.
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