Comparisons of demographic and echocardiographic findings between survivors and control subjects.

Abbreviations: A, peak mitral inflow velocity at late diastole; a, mitral annular late diastolic myocardial tissue velocity; E, peak mitral inflow velocity at early diastole; e, mitral annual early diastolic myocardial tissue velocity; EF, ejection fraction; FS, fractional shortening; IVA, isovolumic acceleration; LV, left ventricular; LVEDd, left ventricular end diastolic dimension; LVESd, left ventricular end systolic dimension; SRd, early diastolic strain rate; SRs, systolic strain rate.*statistically significant.