Fig. 3
Comparison of volumetric parameters and measures of contractility as determined by left ventricular angiography and transpulmonary thermodilution. Patients with normal versus enlarged left ventricular end-diastolic volume presented with similar values of GEDVI (a). Similarly, GEF did not differentiate patients with normal versus reduced left ventricular ejection fraction (b). Vertical dashed lines represent cutoff values for the normal range of left ventricular end-diastolic volume (a) and left ventricular ejection fraction (b) in females and males, respectively. Horizontal dashed lines represent the upper normal range for GEDVI (a) and lower normal range for GEF (b). GEDVI global end-diastolic volume index, GEF global ejection fraction