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Table 2 Baseline echocardiographic characteristics of patients with and without RVSD

From: Right ventricular systolic dysfunction and remodelling in Nigerians with peripartum cardiomyopathy: a longitudinal study

Variables

Patients with RVSD (N = 32)

Patients without RVSD (N = 13)

p-value

Right atrial end-systolic area, cm2

19.7 ± 7.6

15.8 ± 8.1

0.149

Right atrial length, mm

42.9 ± 10.2

42.5 ± 11.1

0.916

Right ventricular basal diameter, mm

49.6 ± 9.3

47.7 ± 10.7

0.583

TAPSE, mm

13.1 ± 2.6

20.3 ± 2.2

<0.001*

Right ventricular S’, cm/s

10.6 ± 3.2

15.3 ± 3.9

<0.001*

RIMP

1.09 ± 0.60

1.76 ± 1.30

0.032*

RV wall thickness, mm

3.6 ± 1.2

3.5 ± 0.8

0.952

Tricuspid Valve E:A ratio

1.21 ± 0.44

0.90 ± 0.35

0.019*

Tricuspid Valve E/e’

5.08 ± 2.73

3.46 ± 1.45

0.023*

Left atrial diameter, mm

43.2 ± 6.4

41.9 ± 6.2

0.548

LV end-diastolic diameter, mm

62.0 ± 7.5

62.4 ± 11.7

0.910

LV ejection fraction, %

32.4 ± 9.3

36.6 ± 7.7

0.127

LV stroke volume index, L/m2

39.9 ± 12.3

51.4 ± 17.9

0.017

Anti-log10 mitral valve E:A

1.50 ± 0.62

1.31 ± 0.25

0.154

Mitral valve E/e’

15.96 ± 7.13

15.61 ± 7.06

0.882

PA acceleration time, ms

61.8 ± 22.4

78.9 ± 28.0

0.037*

PA systolic pressure, mmHg

47.4 ± 19.4

39.2 ± 21.5

0.246

Mean PAP, mmHg

30.6 ± 11.6

25.9 ± 13.1

0.273

Pulmonary hypertension

23 (71.9 %)

7 (53.9 %)

0.304

  1. Key: TAPSE Tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion, LV left ventricle, E:A transvalvular filling velocities ratio, E/e’ ratio of early filling to averaged early diastolic tissue Doppler velocities of mitral or tricuspid valves, PAP pulmonary artery pressure, RIMP right ventricular (RV) index of myocardial performance. Results are presented as means ± standard deviations, or as numbers with percentages in parentheses. *p-vlaue is statistically significant