Fig 1.
Flowchart showing selection of patients in this study.
ICU: intensive care unit, ACS: acute coronary syndrome, CMP: cardiomyopathy, PTE: pulmonary thromboembolism, IE: infective endocarditis (some patients were overlapped).
Fig 2.
M-mode echocardiographic findings of patients with sepsis.
A: a patient with reduced EF (EF: 25%), B: a patient with normal EF (EF: 66%), C: a patient with increased EF (EF: 79%). EF: ejection fraction (measured by biplane method).
Table 1.
Clinical parameters of the study population.
Table 2.
Laboratory parameters.
Table 3.
Echocardiographic parameters of the study population.
Fig 3.
Comparison of mortality rate according to the EF.
AEF: abnormal ejection fraction, NEF: normal ejection fraction.
Table 4.
Comparison of results of patients with normal vs. abnormal EF.
Table 5.
Multivariate analysis of the associated factors presence of hyperdynamic LV, abnormal LV EF, and mortality.