Table 1 |
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Methodological differences among recent studies |
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Authors and study |
Number of patients |
Site of the tissue Doppler analysis |
Simple beat or averaged beats |
Respiratory cycle |
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Weng et al. [4] |
61 |
Septal + lateral wall averaged |
Three consecutive beats averaged |
Not specified |
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Moschietto et al. [2] |
68 |
Lateral wall |
Three beats averaged |
End-expiratory |
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Landesberg et al. [3] |
262 |
Septal and lateral (septal value used for E/Ea calculation) |
Not specified |
Not specified |
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E/Ea, pulsed Doppler mitral flow in early diastole/early diastolic mitral annulus velocity. |
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Fichet et al. Critical Care 2012 16:433 doi:10.1186/cc11377 |
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