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Table 1 Doppler echocardiographic pattern in relation to the diagnosis and the grading of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction

From: N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide as an early prognostic factor in cancer patients developing septic shock

  

Left ventricular diastolic dysfunction

Parameter

Normal pattern

Pattern of abnormal relaxation

Pseudonormal pattern

Restrictive pattern

E/A

> 1

< 1

1–2

> 2

Ea (cm/s)

> 8

< 8

< 8

< 5

E/Ea

< 8

  

> 16

  1. E/A, ratio of transmitral early filling wave velocity to atrial filling wave velocity; Ea, myocardial early diastolic velocity by tissue Doppler at lateral mitral annulus; E/Ea, ratio of transmitral early diastolic velocity to myocardial early diastolic velocity of lateral mitral annulus by tissue Doppler.