1. Tissue Doppler Imaging Predicts Left Ventricular Reverse Remodeling After Surgery for Mitral Regurgitation 
Young Song, MD, Sak Lee, MD, PhD, Young-Lan Kwak, MD, PhD, Chi-Young Shim, MD, PhD, Byung-Chul Chang, MD, PhD, Jae- Kwang Shim, MD, PhD 
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 
Volume 96, Issue 6, Pages (December 2013)
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2. Fig 1
Receiver-operating characteristic curve of the systolic mitral annular velocity (Sm) for postoperative left ventricular reverse remodeling. An area of and a p value less than were observed below the line of the Sm with a 95% confidence interval of 0.64 to The optimal cutoff value for postoperative left ventricular reverse remodeling was 7.0 cm/s of Sm, with a sensitivity and specificity of 63.0% and specificity 71.0%, respectively. Left ventricular reverse remodeling was defined as the changes of left ventricular mass index 20% or greater from baseline value. Diagonal segments are produced by ties.
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