3.2 Traditional Echocardiographic Parameters
Of the ESRD patients on HD, 8 had mild to moderate mitral regurgitation, 12 had small pericardial effusion. Echocardiography revealed no abnormality of congenital cardiac structure. LVEDd and LV wall thickness were observed to be higher in the ESRD group while LAEF (63.41±4.97 vs 67.47±3.96; p<0.001) was lower than the heathy control, but still within in the normal range. There was a relationship between conventional echocardiography and LV diastolic filling pressure. On the one hand, mitral late diastolic flow velocity (A), E/e’ ratio, ePCWP, and PASP values were found to be higher in the ESRD group. On the other hand, the E/A ratio, mitral annulus early diastolic velocities were found to be lower in the ESRD group. In addition, no difference was observed in terms of peak E and IVC values between the groups. The results of the conventional echocardiographic parameters in both groups are presented in Table 2.