DYNAMICS OF MITRAL REGURGITANT FLOW AND ORIFICE AREA - PHYSIOLOGICAL APPLICATION OF THE PROXIMAL FLOW CONVERGENCE METHOD - CLINICAL-DATA AND EXPERIMENTAL TESTING
DYNAMICS OF MITRAL REGURGITANT FLOW AND ORIFICE AREA - PHYSIOLOGICAL APPLICATION OF THE PROXIMAL FLOW CONVERGENCE METHOD - CLINICAL-DATA AND EXPERIMENTAL TESTING
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DOI:
10.1161/01.cir.90.1.307
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发表时间:
1994-07-01
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影响因子:
37.8
通讯作者:
LEVINE, RA
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作者:
SCHWAMMENTHAL, E;CHEN, CG;LEVINE, RA
Background The proximal how convergence method, a quantitative color Doppler flow technique, has been validated recently for calculating regurgitant flow and orifice area. We investigated the potential of the method as a tool to study different pathophysiological mechanisms of mitral valve incompetence by assessing the time course of regurgitant flow and orifice area and analyzed the implications for quantification of mitral regurgitation.Methods and Results Fifty-six consecutive patients with mitral regurgitation of different etiologies were studied. The instantaneous regurgitant flow rate Q((t)) was computed from color M-mode recordings of the proximal flow convergence region and divided by the corresponding orifice velocity V-(t) to obtain the instantaneous orifice area A((t)). Regurgitant stroke volume (RSV) was obtained by integrating Q((t)). Mean regurgitant flow rate Qm( )was calculated by RSV divided by regurgitation time. Peak-to-mean regurgitant flow rates Q(p)/Q(m) and orifice areas A(p)/A(m) were calculated to assess the phasic character of Q((t)) and P-(t) In the first 24 patients (group 1), computation of Q(m) and RSV from the color Doppler recordings was compared with the conventional pulsed Doppler method (r=.94, SEE=29.4 mL/s and r=.95, SEE=9.7 mL) as well as with angiography (r(s)=.93 and r(s)=.94, P