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Table 2 Effects of sedation on echocardiographic parameters.

From: Assessment of left ventricular regional function in affected and carrier dogs with duchenne muscular dystrophy using speckle tracking echocardiography

Index

Unit

Awake

Sedated

Pvalue

Conventional echocardiography

HR

bpm

89.10 ± 27.29

69.61 ± 7.01

< 0.05

 

ESVI

mL/m2

27.37 ± 3.64

21.43 ± 3.61

0.0042

Transmitral flow

A wave

cm/sec

46.33 ± 12.41

34.22 ± 8.28

0.015

  1. (results with P value < 0.05)
  2. ESVI = Left ventricular end-systolic index; A = Peak velocity of late diastolic flow in transmitral flow.