Research Article

Validating Left Ventricular Filling Pressure Measurements in Patients with Congestive Heart Failure: CardioMEMS™ Pulmonary Arterial Diastolic Pressure versus Left Atrial Pressure Measurement by Transthoracic Echocardiography

Table 2

Invasive and noninvasive hemodynamic data from CardioMEMS implant and simultaneous echocardiographic assessment.


Invasive hemodynamics at CardioMEMS implant
 PAsP, mmHg (mean ± SD)49 ± 16
 PAdP, mmHg (mean ± SD)21 ± 7

Hemodynamics by CardioMEMS
 PAsP, mmHg (mean ± SD)42 ± 8
 PAdP, mmHg (mean ± SD)18 ± 4

Estimated hemodynamics by echocardiogram
 PAsP, mmHg (mean ± SD)42 ± 8
 LAP, mmHg (mean ± SD)19 ± 5

LAP, left atrial pressure; mPAP, mean pulmonary artery pressure; PAdP, pulmonary artery diastolic pressure; PAsP, pulmonary artery systolic pressure.