Liver cirrhosis and left ventricle diastolic dysfunction: Systematic review

Table 7 The presence of ascites association with left ventricle diastolic dysfunction

Author	Overall patients with LVDD, n (%)	LVDD in patients with ascites, n (%)	LVDD in patients without ascites, n (%)	P value
Dadhich et al[31]	28/70	16/80	12/60	P = 0.09
Lee et al[32]				NA
Karagiannakis et al[33]	17/37.8	9/40.9	8/34.8	NA
Alexopoulou et al[34]	51/67.1	14/93.3	37/60.7	P = 0.016
Farouk et al[15]				NA
Bhuin et al[16]	47/67.1	47/67.1	0
Cesari et al[35]	37/32.7	22/28.6	15/41.7	P < 0.005
Ru ız-del- Arbol et al[21]	37/46.3	31/57.4	6/23.1	aP < 0.01 and bP < 0.025
Rimbas et al[36]				NA
Hammami et al[25]	49/61.0	25/64.1	24/58.5	NA
Merli et al[37]				NA
Merli et al[26]				P = 0.04
Kazankov et al[38]				NA
Nazar et al[22]	58/58.0	47/63.5	11/42.3	P = 0.03
Devauchelle et al[39]				NA
Somani et al[24]				NA

^aLeft ventricle diastolic dysfunction (LVDD) grade 2 with respect to values of LVDD grade 0;

^bLVDD grade 2 with respect to values of LVDD grade 1. LVDD: Left ventricle diastolic dysfunction; NA: Not assessed.