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High thoracic epidural analgesia improves left ventricular function in patients with ischemic heart

Background: In patients with ischemic heart disease, high thoracic epidural analgesia (HTEA) has been proposed to improve myocardial function. Tissue Doppler Imaging (TDI) is a tool for quantitative determination of myocardial systolic and diastolic velocities and a derivative of TDI is tissue tracking (TT), which allows quantitative assessment of myocardial systolic longitudinal displacement during systole. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of thoracic epidural analgesia on left ventricular (LV) systolic and diastolic function by means of two‐dimensional (2D) echocardiography and TDI in patients with ischemic heart disease.