New Echocardiographic Findings Correlate with Intramyocardial Inflammation in Endomyocardial Biopsies of Patients with Acute Myocarditis and Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy

Table 3

Conventional echocardiographic parameters and speckle tracking echocardiography at baseline and at followup.

Parameter	Acute myocarditis; at baseline	Patients without inflammation; at followup	Patients with inflammation; at followup
LVEF, %	40.4±10.3	65.3±6.1	56.2±7.2 *
Regional wall abnormalities, 𝑛	10	2	2
LVEDD, mm	59±8	51±3	55±4
LVESD, mm	51±7	39±5	42±7
LA, mL	35.4±5.4	34.6±4.2	37.8±6.3
Septum, mm	13.1±0.4	10.4±0.5	11.5±1.4
Posterior wall, mm	11.2±1.7	11.2±0.5	10.2±0.8
Dispersing wall, 𝑛	16	3	3
LV mass index, g/m²	91.1±18.4	76.3±10.1	86.2±11.1 *
FS, %	19.3±4.2	32.1±7.1	21.5±6.0 *
LSR, 1/s	0.53±0.29	1.3±0.3	0.78±0.4 *
LS, %	8.36±3.47	16.87±2.0	9.4±1.4 *
LSRsep, 1/s	0.54±0.34	0.81±0.41	0.51±0.14 *
LSsep, %	12.98±2.76	16.65±3.98	13.43±4.32 *

∗Significant differences between patients with and without inflammation at followup. ns: not significant. Data are shown as mean ± standard deviation.
LVEDD: left ventricular enddiastolic diameter, LVESD: left ventricular endsystolic diameter, LA: left atrium, FS: fractional shortening, LSR: global systolic longitudinal strain rate, LSRsep: septal longitudinal systolic strain rate, LS: global systolic longitudinal strain, LSsep: septal systolic longitudinal strain.