Risk Factors for Symptomatic Pericardial Effusions Posthematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant

Table 4

Correlation between duration of pericardial effusion and pretransplant cardiac markers.

Correlation with duration of effusion
	R value	p value
Ejection fraction	0.312	0.26
Shortening fraction	−0.355	0.19
Hemoglobin	−0.337	0.29
BSA	−0.137	0.66
LVIDd z-score	0.522
MV E/A	−0.198	0.52
Mitral lateral E/E′	0.271	0.40
Apical 4 Ch LV peak average strain	0.684

Statistically significant. Pearson correlation, 2 tail. LVIDd, left ventricle end diastolic diameter; MV, mitral valve.