Comparison between Procalcitonin, Brain Natriuretic Peptide, and Uric Acid in Children with Cardiomyopathy and Controls

Table 6

Matrix correlation of echocardiographic parameters and biomarkers in all population.

Echo parameters	Age		Procalcitonin		BNP		Uric acid
	PC		PC		PC		PC
Left ventricular end-diastolic dimension	0.28	0.02	0.29	0.02	0.33	0.01	0.48	0.00
Left ventricular end-systolic dimension	0.17	0.16	0.18	0.15	0.21	0.09	0.34	0.00
Ejection fraction	0.22	0.07	0.00	0.98	−0.03	0.83	−0.08	0.54
Left myocardial performance index	0.14	0.27	0.39	0.00	0.15	0.25	0.49	0.00
Left isovolumic contraction time	0.15	0.22	0.44	0.00	0.47	0.00	0.43	0.00
Left isovolumic relaxation time	−0.18	0.16	0.27	0.02	0.10	0.44	0.21	0.09
Left acceleration time	0.37	0.00	−0.11	0.38	−0.12	0.33	0.01	0.92
Left peak E velocity	−0.17	0.18	−0.28	0.02	−0.21	0.09	−0.42	0.00
Right myocardial performance index	0.14	0.24	0.59	0.00	0.35	0.01	0.48	0.00
Right isovolumic relaxation time	−0.13	0.30	0.27	0.03	0.38	0.00	0.19	0.13
Right deceleration time	−0.07	0.56	0.11	0.36	0.20	0.12	0.26	0.03
Right ejection time	−0.25	0.04	0.27	0.03	0.03	0.79	0.19	0.12
Right acceleration time	−0.13	0.30	0.18	0.15	0.29	0.02	0.29	0.02
Left preejection period/ejection time	0.08	0.51	0.30	0.01	0.19	0.13	0.31	0.01
Right preejection period	−0.10	0.44	0.26	0.03	0.40	0.00	0.34	0.00
Right preejection period/ejection time	−0.10	0.42	0.32	0.01	0.36	0.00	0.39	0.00
Left interventricular septal dimension in diastole	−0.05	0.66	0.37	0.00	0.53	0.00	0.56	0.00
Left ventricular posterior wall dimension in diastole	−0.18	0.14	0.29	0.02	0.26	0.04	0.45	0.00
Left interventricular septal dimension in systole	−0.20	0.11	0.33	0.01	0.30	0.02	0.37	0.00
Left ventricular posterior wall dimension in systole	−0.15	0.21	0.35	0.00	0.32	0.01	0.47	0.00