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Table 1 Echocardiographic data of study animals before and after myocardial infarction

From: Noninvasive monitoring of cardiac function in a chronic ischemic heart failure model in the rat: Assessment with tissue Doppler and non-Doppler 2D strain echocardiography

Criteria

Before MI

(mean/SD/min/max)

1 months after MI

(mean/SD/min/max)

p-value

LVEF - %

70/6/57/82

40/8/25/50

<0.0001

FS - %

35/5/26/45

17/4/10/22

<0.0001

IVSd - cm

0.2/0.1/0.1/0.2

0.1/0/0.1/0.2

NS

IVSs - cm

0.23/0/0.2/0.3

0.16/0.1/0.1/0.3

<0.01

LVIDd - cm

0.7/0.1/0.5/0.8

0.9/0.1/0.7/1.0

<0.0001

LVIDs - cm

0.4/0.1/0.3/0.5

0.7/0.1/0.6/0.9

<0.0001

LVPWd - cm

0.2/0/0.2/0.3

0.2/0/0.1/0.3

NS

LVPWs - cm

0.2/0/0.2/0.3

0.3/0/0.2/0.3

NS

V ant. sys. - cm/s

0.79/0.25/0.42/1.27

0.18/0.19/0.04/0.74

<0.0001

V post. sys. - cm/s

2.38/0.43/1.53/3.20

1.76/0.44/0.83/2.50

<0.001

2-D-strain ant.sept.- %

17.3/5.2/10.1/26.4

4.6/3.0/1.0/12.1

<0.0001

2-D-strain ant. - %

18.9/5.9/8.5/31.1

5.6/2.5/0.3/9.0

<0.0001

2-D-strain lat. - %

21.4/4.9/11.4/29.7

8.1/3.5/2.3/13.6

<0.0001

2-D-strain post. - %

19.3/5.2/8.7/31.2

15.4/5.5/7.0/24.3

<0,01

2-D-strain inf. - %

19.2/7.9/4.7/36.3

17.8/7.9/5.2/38.0

NS

2-D-strain sept. - %

18.2/6.6/7.2/33.5

7.0/5.9/0.6/28.3

<0,001