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 2

Comparative assessment of left ventricular diastolic filling indices with regard to severity of liver disease.

	E-velocity (cm/sec)	A-velocity (cm/sec)	E/A ratio	EDT (msec)
CTP class A (𝑛=29)	56.5±12	50.2±10.2	1.2±0.5	156.7±27.8
CTP class B (𝑛=39)	60.2±15.8	61.3±7.9	1.0±0.3	165.4±13.6
CTP class C (𝑛=24)	62.8±17.2	62.4±15.3	1.1±0.3	196.8±23.5
𝑡-test
CTP class A versus B	𝑃=NS	𝑃<0.001	𝑃=NS	𝑃=NS
CTP class A versus C	𝑃=NS	𝑃=0.001	𝑃=NS	𝑃<0.0001
CTP class B versus C	𝑃=NS	𝑃=NS	𝑃=NS	𝑃<0.0001

CTP: Child-Turcotte-Pugh; E-velocity: peak early ventricular filling velocity; A-velocity: peak atrial filling velocity; E/A ratio: early/late filling velocity ratio; EDT: E-wave deceleration time; NS: nonsignificant. All results are expressed as mean values ± standard deviation.