Peripheral Venous Pulsatility Detected by Doppler Method for Diagnosis of Right Heart Failure

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This study shows that peripheral venous flow detected by Doppler ultrasound becomes synchronously pulsatile with heart beats as soon as central venous pressure (CVP) is above 7 mm Hg. CVP was above 7 mm Hg in 13 among 46 patients. Clinical signs of right heart failure were detectable in only 7 of these 13 patients (sensitivity 54%), whereas peripheral venous flow was pulsatile in 12 of them (sensitivity 92%). In 4 patients with a normal CVP, peripheral venous flow was also pulsatile; all of them suffered from valvular heart disease with left ventricle ejection fraction below 60% in 3 of them. The detection of a pulsatile peripheral venous blood flow constitutes an early sign of right heart failure, more sensitive than clinical evaluation, and probably even more than CVP.

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Journal ID (publisher-id): CRD

Journal ID (nlm-ta): Cardiology

Journal ID (doi): 10.1159/issn.0008-6312

Title: Cardiology

Publisher: S. Karger AG

ISSN (Print): 0008-6312

ISSN (Electronic): 1421-9751

Publication date Subscription-year: 1984

Publication date (Print): 1984

Publication date (Electronic): 11 November 2008

Volume: 71

Issue: 4

Pages: 173-176

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Unit of Angiology and Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland

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Publisher ID: 173661 Other ID: Cardiology 1984;71:173–176

DOI: 10.1159/000173661

PubMed ID: 6383607

SO-VID: a745152e-4979-4ae3-b143-8d12dde99723

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Date received : 17 August 1983

Date accepted : 13 February 1984

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Pages: 4

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