Skip to main content

Table 1 Doppler echocardiographic values for evaluation of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction

From: Acute heart failure after Orthotopic liver transplantation: a case series from one center

Parameter

Normal

Impaired relaxation

Pseudonormal filling

Restrictive filling

E/A (cm/s)

>  1

<  1

1–2

>  2

DT (ms)

<  220

>  220

150–200

<  150

IVRT(m/s)

<  100

>  100

60–100

<  60

S/D

≥ 1

≥ 1

<  1

<  1

E’(cm/s)

>  8

<  8

<  8

<  8

  1. E/A: Early to late left ventricular (LV) filling ratio
  2. DT: Early LV felling deceleration time
  3. IVRT: Isovolumic relaxation time
  4. S/D: systolic to diastolic pulmonary venous flow ratio
  5. E’: peak early diastolic mitral annular velocity
  6. Adapted after: [35]