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Table 1 Indices of ventricular dyssynchrony obtained by tissue Doppler and strain imaging

From: Tissue Doppler and strain imaging: anything left in the echo-lab?

Method

Parameter

Cut-off

TVI

Difference between peak systolic velocities of opposite walls [41]

> 65 ms

PW- TDI

Sum of interventricular and intraventricular asynchrony [40]

> 167 ms

TVI

Systolic time-to-peak velocity -SD [42]

> 32.6 ms

TSI

Systolic time-to-peak velocity -SD [46]

> 34.4 ms

Strain Doppler

Time-to-peak of negative strain (systolic or post-systolic) -SD [43]

> 60 ms

Strain Doppler

Sum of times-to-peak of post-systolic shortening [44]

> 760 ms

2D strain

Difference of time-to-peak of radial systolic strain [45]

= 130 ms

  1. SD = standard deviation; PW-TDI = pulsed-wave tissue Doppler; TSI = tissue synchronization imaging; TVI = myocardial velocity curves obtained with color tissue Doppler; 2D Strain = two-dimensional strain (speckle-tracking). Modified from Galderisi M et al [49].