Reply to Sanfilippo et al. Caution Is Warranted When Assessing Diastolic Function Using Transesophageal Echocardiography. Comment on "Kyle et al. Consensus Defined Diastolic Dysfunction and Cardiac Postoperative Morbidity Score: A Prospective Observational Study. J. Clin. Med. 2021, 10, 5198"

Mateusz Zawadka; Bonnie Kyle; Hilary Shanahan; Jackie Cooper; Andrew Rogers; Ashraf Hamarneh; Vivek Sivaraman; Sibtain Anwar; Andrew Smith

doi:10.3390/jcm11123300

Reply to Sanfilippo et al. Caution Is Warranted When Assessing Diastolic Function Using Transesophageal Echocardiography. Comment on "Kyle et al. Consensus Defined Diastolic Dysfunction and Cardiac Postoperative Morbidity Score: A Prospective Observational Study. J. Clin. Med. 2021, 10, 5198"

J Clin Med. 2022 Jun 9;11(12):3300. doi: 10.3390/jcm11123300.

Authors

Mateusz Zawadka^{1

2

3}, Bonnie Kyle¹, Hilary Shanahan⁴, Jackie Cooper², Andrew Rogers¹, Ashraf Hamarneh¹, Vivek Sivaraman¹, Sibtain Anwar^{1

2

5}, Andrew Smith¹

Affiliations

¹ Perioperative Medicine, Barts Heart Centre, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London EC1A 7BE, UK.
² NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK.
³ 2nd Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Medical University of Warsaw, 02-091 Warsaw, Poland.
⁴ Department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Papworth Everard, Cambridge CB2 0AY, UK.
⁵ Outcomes Research Consortium, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA.

Abstract

We thank Sanfilippo and colleagues for their insightful comments about the assessment of diastolic function with transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) [...].

Grants and funding

This research received no external funding.