Clinical Study
ST-Segment Depression in Hyperventilation Indicates a False Positive Exercise Test in Patients with Mitral Valve Prolapse
Table 1
Patients characteristics, echocardiographic and angiographic data.
| | Males () | Females () | value |
| | Baseline characteristics | | | |
| | Age | | | NS | | Arterial hypertension | 7/103 (7%) | 11/115 (10%) | NS | | Diabetes mellitus | 5/103 (5%) | 7/115 (6%) | NS | | Hypercholesterolemia | 38/103 (37%) | 46/115 (40%) | NS | | Smoking | 35/103 (34%) | 32/115 (28%) | NS |
| | Echocardiographic data | | | |
| | Leaflet involved: | | | | | (i) anterior | 80/103 (78%) | 77/115 (67%) | .048 | | (ii) posterior | 23/103 (22%) | 38/115 (33%) | .042 | | LVEF (%) | | | NS |
| | Angiographic data | | | |
| | Vessels involved: | | | | | (i) 0 | 38/103 (37%) | 52/115 (45%) | NS | | (ii) 1 | 33/103 (32%) | 37/115 (32%) | NS | | (iii) 2 | 21/103 (20%) | 18/115 (16%) | NS | | (iv) 3 | 11/103 (11%) | 8/115 (7%) | NS |
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LVEF: Left Ventricle Ejection Fraction, NS: Not Significant.
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