mit einer VDD von ca. 30mmHg

15:41 Nov 30, 2011 

Thanks to everyone for information, especially to uyuni for your analysis. I am not expert enough to judge on my own. I translated as (left) ventricular (end) diastolic pressure, but I left a translator's note indicating I was not 100% sure.

Stephen

18:24 Nov 28, 2011 

It´s not that I didn´t still have some work to do, but I somehow carried this question with me for days:

An LVEDP of 30 mmHg would not indicate slight (*leichte*) signs of left ventricular strain but reflects a serious finding. Furthermore it is a parameter usually obtained by cardiac catheterization rather than by echocardiography. Moreover, it would not be female (*eine* VDD) in German but masculine (*der* Druck).

I was thinking about VDD for *Druckdifferenz* but *v*entrikuläre or *v*alvuläre Druckdifferenz (conclusive with the second degree tricuspid regurgitation mentioned in the text) is hardly in use.

A diastolic left ventricular wall thickness (*v*entrikuläre *d*iastolische Wand*d*icke) of 30 mm (not mmHg) would also be a more than massive finding.

The only thing I could think of as a *slightly* increased hemodynamic parameter is pulmonary arterial pressure (normal range below 25 mmHg); but the abbreviation for this would be PAP not VDD. So a typo or transcription error seems unlikely.

So, I have to admit that I cannot provide an operational and conclusive answer. Perhaps my thoughts can help to initiate/elucidate/confirm ideas or considerations others may have in mind.

04:37 Nov 24, 2011 

I don't see how VDD can be related to a pacemaker in light of its unit being mmHg, which is a pressure unit.