Ultrasonographic Prevalence and Factors Predicting Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis: Is There a Correlation between the Grade of Diastolic Dysfunction and the Grade of Liver Disease?

Table 1

Comparative assessment of echocardiographic measurements and left ventricular systolic performance parameters with regard to severity of liver disease.

	LVESD (cm)	LVEDD (cm)	LAD (cm)	EF (%)	SF (%)
CTP class A (𝑛=29)	3±0.6	4.9±0.7	3.4±0.4	67±8.4	36.8±6.9
CTP class B (𝑛=39)	3.4±0.4	5.1±0.5	3.4±0.5	65.9±9.6	34.7±6.3
CTP class C (𝑛=24)	3.3±0.6	5.1±0.7	3.3±0.3	62.3±9.1	33.6±7.2
𝑡-test
CTP class A versus B	𝑃=NS	𝑃=NS	𝑃=NS	𝑃=NS	𝑃=NS
CTP class A versus C	𝑃=NS	𝑃=NS	𝑃=NS	𝑃=NS	𝑃=NS
CTP class B versus C	𝑃=NS	𝑃=NS	𝑃=NS	𝑃=NS	𝑃=NS

CTP: Child-Turcotte-Pugh; LVESD: left ventricular end-systolic diameter; LVEDD: left ventricular end-diastolic diameter; LAD: left atrial diameter; EF: ejection fraction; SF: shortening fraction; NS: nonsignificant. All results are expressed as mean values ± standard deviation.