Total average diastolic longitudinal displacement by colour tissue doppler imaging as an assessment of diastolic function

• Published in: Cardiovascular ultrasound 2016-09, Vol.14 (1), p.41-41, Article 41
• Main Authors: de Knegt, Martina Chantal, Biering-Sørensen, Tor, Søgaard, Peter, Sivertsen, Jacob, Jensen, Jan Skov, Møgelvang, Rasmus
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Aged; Diastole; Echocardiography, Doppler, Pulsed - methods; Female; Heart Ventricles - diagnostic imaging; Heart Ventricles - physiopathology; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Reproducibility of Results; Ventricular Dysfunction, Left - diagnosis; Ventricular Dysfunction, Left - physiopathology; Ventricular Function, Left - physiology
• ISSN: 1476-7120; 1476-7120
• DOI: 10.1186/s12947-016-0083-2

The current method for a non-invasive assessment of diastolic dysfunction is complex with the use of algorithms of many different echocardiographic parameters. Total average diastolic longitudinal displacement (LD), determined by colour tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) via the measurement of LD during early diastole and atrial contraction, can potentially be used as a simple and reliable alternative. In 206 patients, using GE Healthcare Vivid E7 and 9 and Echopac BT11 software, we determined both diastolic LD, measured in the septal and lateral walls in the apical 4-chamber view by TDI, and the degree of diastolic dysfunction, based on current guidelines. Of these 206 patients, 157 had cardiac anomalies that could potentially affect diastolic LD such as severe systolic heart failure (n = 45), LV hypertrophy (n = 49), left ventricular (LV) dilation (n = 30), and mitral regurgitation (n = 33). Intra and interobserver variability of diastolic LD measures was tested in 125 patients. A linear relationship between total average diastolic LD and the degree of diastolic dysfunction was found. A total average diastolic LD of 10 mm was found to be a consistent threshold for the general discrimination of patients with or without diastolic dysfunction. Using linear regression, total average diastolic LD was estimated to fall by 2.4 mm for every increase in graded severity of diastolic dysfunction (β = -0.61, p-value