Patrizio Lancellotti, Maurizio Galderisi, Thor Edvardsen, Erwan Donal, Georg Goliasch, Nuno Cardim, Julien Magne, Sara Laginha, Andreas Hagendorff, Trine F Haland, Lars Aaberge, Christophe Martinez, Antonio Rapacciuolo, Ciro Santoro, Federica Ilardi, Adriana Postolache, Raluca Dulgheru, Anca D Mateescu, Carmen C Beladan, Dan Deleanu, Stella Marchetta, Vincent Auffret, Ehud Schwammenthal, Gilbert Habib, Bogdan A Popescu
AIMS: The present Euro-Filling report aimed at comparing the diagnostic accuracy of the 2009 and 2016 echocardiographic grading algorithms for predicting invasively measured left ventricular filling pressure (LVFP). METHOD AND RESULTS: A total of 159 patients who underwent simultaneous evaluation of echo estimates of LVFP and invasive measurements of LV end-diastolic pressure (LVEDP) were enrolled at nine EACVI centres. Thirty-nine (25%) patients had a reduced LV ejection fraction (<50%), 77 (64%) were in NYHA ≥ II, and 85 (53%) had coronary artery disease...
September 1, 2017: European Heart Journal Cardiovascular Imaging