Abstract
A noninvasive assessment of left ventricular (LV) diastolic performance by tissue Doppler imaging was performed in 56 patients (8 patients with atypical chest pain, 42 with coronary artery disease with a previous myocardial infarction, and 6 without a previous myocardial infarction) who underwent cardiac catheterization. Mitral annular velocity (MAV) during early ventricular diastole was obtained by M-mode color tissue Doppler imaging at the posterior corner of the mitral annulus. In each patient, the negative peak of the first derivative of LV pressure decay (peak −dP/dt) and a time constant of LV relaxation (τ) were calculated from the LV pressure waves obtained by a catheter-tip micromanometer. LV end-systolic volume index was measured from contrast left ventriculography. MAV during early diastole was significantly correlated with τ (r = −0.73, p <0.001), peak −dP/dt (r = 0.58, p <0.001), and LV end-systolic volume index (r = −0.63, p <0.001). On multivariate regression analysis with MAV during early diastole, τ and LV end-systolic volume index were selected as prime determinants (r = 0.80, p <0.001). These findings suggest that MAV during early diastole has a direct relation to LV elastic recoil as well as to LV relaxation. MAV during early diastole gives important information regarding LV behavior in late systole to early diastole where LV early diastolic performance is determined.
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