Heart failure
Conditions
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Patients with angina pectoris, suspected angina pectoris, or prior myocardial infarction, patients with dilated or hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and patients with hypertension who is developing heart failure. Patients with adequate echocardiographic image quality.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Patients with heart rhythm other than sinus rhythm, patients with relevant left-sided valvular heart disease, patients after mitral or aortic valve replacement or mitral annular plasty, or patients with receiving hemodialysis.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| To evaluate the correlations between myocardial velocity index (e'), flow propagation velocity (Vp), strain rate index (ESR) and time constant (tau) or LV filling pressure. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| To compare the accuracy for estimating LV relaxation and filling pressure between the measuring methods of e', Vp, and ESR. | — |
Countries
Japan
Contacts
Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine Department of Cardiovascular Medicine