Application of strain and other echocardiographic parameters in the evaluation of early and long-term clinical outcomes after cardiac surgery revascularization

Table 2 Postoperative outcome in patients with preoperative left ventricular diastolic dysfunction with E’ < 10 or E/E’ >12

Variables	All pts n = 69	E’ < 0,10 m/s n=39	E’ ≥ 0,10 m/s n=30	p	E/E’ >12 n=10	E/E’≤12 n=59	P
Intubation time, h/min	5.46	7.17	3.48	0.32	14.51	4.12	0.04^a
ICU time, days	2.66	2.76	2.53	0.31	2.70	2.66	0.71
Hospitalization time, days	9.94	10.07	9.76	0.33	9.70	9.98	0.72
Inotrops Use, %	28.98	78.95	13.79	0.04^a	60	22.4	0.02^a
MCE, %	24.63	23.08	26.67	0.71	30	23.7	0.61
1-year event free, %	12.06	8.33	13.79	0.44	20	9.8	0.32
2018 Phone call, %	8.06	8.11	6.67	0.82	20	5.2	0.11

Abbreviations: E’ early diastolic mitral annulus velocity, E early transmitral inflow wave velocity, ICU intensive care unit, MCE major cardiac events
^aStatistically significant

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