Radiological Cardiothoracic Ratio as a Potential Marker of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy Assessed by Echocardiography

Table 2

The results of imaging studies in the study group.

	Mean	Standard deviation	Minimum value	Maximum value
Echocardiography
LVEDd (mm)	46.94	6.07	36.03	80.01
LVESd (mm)	35.88	6.54	22.44	53.77
IVSDd (mm)	11.91	1.02	9.47	14.21
PWDd (mm)	10.13	1.09	7.34	12.02
LVM (g)	193.44	47.31	97.17	484.71
LVMI (g/m^2)	107.80	31.05	52.99	311.15
RWT	0.48	0.07	0.28	0.64
Chest radiograph in PA projection
C width (mm)	167.24	19.98	131.00	223.00
T width (mm)	335.59	32.55	259.00	392.00
CTR	0.51	0.04	0.43	0.63
	Number		Percent
Echocardiography
NG	15		15.6
LVH	81		84.4
CR	47		49.0
CH	15		15.6
EH	19		19.8
Chest radiograph in PA projection
Heart silhouette enlargement (CTR > 0.50)	29		30.2

C width: transverse dimension of the heart’s silhouette; CH: concentric hypertrophy of the left ventricular; CR: concentric remodeling of the left ventricular; CTR: cardiothoracic ratio, EH: eccentric hypertrophy of the left ventricular; IVSDd: interventricular septum diastolic diameter; LVEDd: left ventricular end-diastolic diameter; LVESd: left ventricular end-systolic diameter; LVH: left ventricular hypertrophy; LVM: left ventricular mass; LVMI: left ventricular mass index; NG: normal geometry of the left ventricular; PWDd: posterior wall diastolic diameter; RWT: relative wall thickness; T width: transverse dimension of the chest.