Prognostic Value of Tissue Doppler Echocardiographic Imaging in Elderly Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction

Abstract

(1) In patients over 65 with myocardial infarction, E/e' above 12 is an independent predictor of death during 1-year follow-up. (2) E/e' ratio in acute phase of myocardial infarction correlated significantly with N pro-BNP level and 6-minute walking distance after 1-year follow-up.

A novel Doppler echocardiographic score reflecting cardiac functional status can predict adverse outcome in acute myocardial infarction

“…Hillis et al [9] and other groups [22–24] have reported that E / e ′ is a significant predictor in AMI patients, whereas this was not the case in this study. We found that the cardiac status score was superior compared to E / e ′.…”

“…First, our study used a small population compared to previous studies [9, 22–24]. In the future, a larger study comparing the cardiac status score with other echocardiographic features is needed.…”

Tissue Doppler Time Intervals Predict the Occurrence of Rehospitalization in Chronic Heart Failure: Data from the Daunia Heart Failure Registry

“…14 Traditional Doppler and TDI parameters evaluated in our study were related with a worse prognosis (lower values of EDT, higher values of E/A ratio and E/E'). 8,9 In our study E/E' values did not reach the statistical significance for predicting recurrence of HF, probably because of small sample size. Dini et al showed that, in patients with systolic chronic HF, EDT was independently associated with the combined endpoint of death or HF hospitalization.…”

“…Thus, there is a need for reliable tools for predicting the risk of rehospitalization in subjects with chronic HF. 8,9 TDI can also be used to measure isovolumic contraction time (ICT), ejection time (ET), systolic time (ST), and filling time (FT) intervals in noninvasive, geometrically independent, easily applicable fashion. 6 There is evidence that abnormal parameters at TDI may identify subjects at risk for adverse events in major cardiac diseases, such as HF.…”

Predictive Value of Echocardiography in Post Myocardial Infarction Setting. Part 2

“…В нескольких исследованиях, применявших мето-дику ТДГ, также показана прогностическая роль ком-бинированного диастолического индекса E/e' в каче-стве прогностического маркера после ИМ [44,46].…”