Total average diastolic longitudinal displacement by colour tissue doppler imaging as an assessment of diastolic function

Table 4 Correlations of total average diastolic longitudinal displacement with peak average diastolic velocities and average systolic longitudinal displacement for subjects with LV hypertrophy and no diastolic dysfunction and a first and second degree of diastolic dysfunction

Comparison	DDF 0		DDF 1		DDF 2
Comparison	Pearson Correlation	P-value	Pearson Correlation	P-value	Pearson Correlation	P-value
e’ and TT-e’	0.92	<0.001	0.77	<0.001	0.67	<0.05
a’ and TT-a’	0.89	<0.001	0.81	<0.001	0.88	<0.001
e’ + a’ and TT-e’ + TT-a’	0.81	<0.001	0.81	<0.001	0.88	<0.001
TT-e’/TT-a’ and e’/a’	0.95	<0.001	0.75	<0.001	0.76	<0.001
TT-s’ and TT-e’ + TT-a’	0.53	<0.05	0.62	<0.05	0.79	<0.001
TT-e’ + TT-a’ and s’	0.46	0.06	0.40	0.09	0.80	<0.001

e’ early diastolic tissue velocity by TDI measured at the mitral annulus, a’ late diastolic tissue velocity by TDI measured at the mitral annulus, s’ systolic tissue velocity by TDI measured at the mitral annulus, TT-e’ early diastolic displacement measured at the mitral annulus, TT-a’ late diastolic displacement measured at the mitral annulus, TT-s’ systolic displacement measured at the mitral annulus

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