Prognostic Value and Interplay Between Myocardial Tissue Velocities in Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting

Early diastolic tissue velocity (e ’) by tissue Doppler imaging represents an early marker of left ventricular (LV) dysfunction in ischemic heart disease. We assessed the value of e’ for predicting mortality in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). We retrospectively investigated patients treated with CABG b etween 2006-2011. Before surgery, all patients underwent an echocardiogram with tissue Doppler imaging to measure tissue velocities: systolic (s’), e’, and late diastolic (a’).

Source: The American Journal of Cardiology - December 28, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Flemming Javier Olsen, S øren Lindberg, Thomas Fritz-Hansen, Daniel Modin, Sune Pedersen, Allan Iversen, Søren Galatius, Gunnar Gislason, Rasmus Møgelvang, Tor Biering-Sørensen Source Type: research