Differences among Patients with RAVI/LAVI Stratified by Quartiles
When stratified into quartiles, RAVI was noted to increase in size each quartile (p=<0.001), while LAVI decreased in size per quartile (p=0.026). With RAVI/LAVI stratified into quartiles (Table 2), only the admission BNP was noted to be significantly different with higher values in Q3 and Q4 (2454 ± 1919 and 3954 ± 1455, respectively) (p=0.020). There was no significant difference in the hemodynamic variables between groups (Table 4).