Transmitral flow velocity predicts outcome in heart failure

Patients with heart failure (HF) who had prolongation of the transmitral deceleration time (DT) on Doppler echocardiography to >125 msec on therapy had a lower incidence of all cardiac events including death, transplantation, and hospitalization for worsening HF (36 versus 86 percent, p <0.0001) compared with those in whom the DT was persistently short (≤125 msec).