| Literature DB >> 2985387 |
W F Shen, G S Roubin, R F Uren, B F Hutton, C Y Choong, P J Harris, P J Fletcher, D T Kelly.
Abstract
The relationship between radionuclide and thermodilution measurement of stroke volumes (SV) was investigated in 30 patients without valvular regurgitation or intracardiac shunt (group A) at rest and during exercise. Both attenuated radionuclide right ventricular (RV) and left ventricular (LV) SV measurements correlated well with the SV determined by the thermodilution method (r = 0.87 and r = 0.93, all P less than 0.001). The reliability of the radionuclide method to estimate SV was evaluated prospectively in two additional groups of patients. In 11 patients without valvular regurgitation or intracardiac shunt (group B) the radionuclide RVSV and LVSV closely approximated to thermodilution SV at rest and during exercise. In 15 patients with aortic regurgitation (group C) the radionuclide stroke volume ratio correlated well with the angiographic regurgitant fraction. Thus, both RVSV and LVSV and the severity of aortic regurgitation can be reliably measured with gated radionuclide ventriculography.Entities:
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Year: 1985 PMID： 2985387 DOI： 10.1007/bf00254463
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Eur J Nucl Med ISSN： 0340-6997