A Simple Method for Noninvasive Quantification of Pressure Gradient Across the Pulmonary Valve

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Pressure gradient across the pulmonary valve (PVPG) is an important hemodynamic variable used in the management of patients with cardiovascular and pulmonary disease. However, a reliable noninvasive method is unavailable. We hypothesized that a progressive Muller maneuver would elicit the pulmonary valve premature opening (PVPO) in diastole and that this event would be detectable by Doppler echocardiography. The intrathoracic pressure (ITP) decrease during this maneuver equals PVPG, which may be assessed with a custom airway pressure measurement device. A total of 102 subjects were enrolled in the study. At the earliest appearance of PVPO, the ITP decrease was recorded as the PVPG. PVPG was also simultaneously measured and compared by other two methods: right heart catheterization in 43 subjects, and routine Doppler echocardiography (pulmonary regurgitation jet) in the other 59 subjects. The results measured by different approaches were compared using the Bland-Altman analysis. PVPG assessed via PVPO showed strong agreement with PVPG measured by catheterization or routine Doppler echocardiography methods, with Lin concordance correlation coefficients of 0.91 and 0.70, respectively. In conclusion, PVPO provides a new noninvasive method of quantification of PVPG.

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A Tajik, William K. Oh, Bijoy Khandheria … (2008)

It has now been a quarter of a century since the first description by Kitabatake and his associates of the use of echo-Doppler to characterize the transmitral flow velocity curves in various disease states. A decade ago we described the role of echocardiography in the "Evaluation of Diastolic Filling of Left Ventricle in Health and Disease: Doppler Echocardiography Is the Clinician's Rosetta Stone." Over the ensuing decade, advances in echo-Doppler have helped to further decipher the morphologic and physiological expression of cardiovascular disease and unlock additional mysteries of diastology. The purpose of this review is to highlight the developments in echo-Doppler and refinements in our knowledge that have occurred over the past decade that enhance our understanding of diastology.

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Echocardiography as a guide for fluid management

John Boyd, Demetrios Sirounis, Julien Maizel … (2016)

Background In critically ill patients at risk for organ failure, the administration of intravenous fluids has equal chances of resulting in benefit or harm. While the intent of intravenous fluid is to increase cardiac output and oxygen delivery, unwelcome results in those patients who do not increase their cardiac output are tissue edema, hypoxemia, and excess mortality. Here we briefly review bedside methods to assess fluid responsiveness, focusing upon the strengths and pitfalls of echocardiography in spontaneously breathing mechanically ventilated patients as a means to guide fluid management. We also provide new data to help clinicians anticipate bedside echocardiography findings in vasopressor-dependent, volume-resuscitated patients. Objective To review bedside ultrasound as a method to judge whether additional intravenous fluid will increase cardiac output. Special emphasis is placed on the respiratory effort of the patient. Conclusions Point-of-care echocardiography has the unique ability to screen for unexpected structural findings while providing a quantifiable probability of a patient’s cardiovascular response to fluids. Measuring changes in stroke volume in response to either passive leg raising or changes in thoracic pressure during controlled mechanical ventilation offer good performance characteristics but may be limited by operator skill, arrhythmia, and open lung ventilation strategies. Measuring changes in vena caval diameter induced by controlled mechanical ventilation demands less training of the operator and performs well during arrythmia. In modern delivery of critical care, however, most patients are nursed awake, even during mechanical ventilation. In patients making respiratory efforts we suggest that ventilator settings must be standardized before assessing this promising technology as a guide for fluid management.

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Central venous pressure, pulmonary capillary wedge pressure and intrathoracic blood volumes as preload indicators in cardiac surgery patients.

Kerstin Mair, O Gödje, M Peyerl … (1998)

Monitoring of cardiac preload is mainly performed by measurement of central venous and pulmonary capillary wedge pressure in combination with assessment of cardiac output, applying the pulmonary arterial thermal dilution technique. However, the filling pressures are negatively influenced by mechanical ventilation and the pulmonary artery catheter is criticized because of its inherent risks. Measurement of right atria, right ventricular, global end diastolic and intrathoracic blood volume index by arterial thermal dye dilution utilizing the COLD-system may represent an alternative. In 30 CABG patients with an uncomplicated postoperative course the mentioned parameters were measured 1, 3, 6, 12 and 24 h postoperatively to prove their qualification as preload indicators: As patients received no inotropic support, changes of cardiac index and stroke volume index must correlate to changes of presumably preload indicating parameters. When arterial and pulmonary arterial thermal dilution were compared, no differences were found; the correlation coefficient being 0.96, the bias 0.16 l/min per m2 (2.4%) and coefficients of variation did not exceed 7%. Changes of central venous pressure, capillary wedge pressure, right atrial end diastolic volume index and right ventricular end diastolic volume index did not correlate at all to changes of cardiac and stroke volume index (coefficients ranged from -0.01 to 0.28). In contrast, intrathoracic and global end diastolic blood volume indices with coefficients from 0.76 to 0.87, did show a good correlation to cardiac and stroke volume index. Central venous pressure, capillary wedge pressure, right atrial and right ventricular end diastolic volumes are no suitable preload parameters in cardiac surgery intensive care, compared to intrathoracic and global end diastolic blood volumes. The latter show a higher clinical value and can be obtained by less invasive methods, as no pulmonary artery catheter is required.

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Journal ID (nlm-ta): Sci Rep

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Sci Rep

Title: Scientific Reports

Publisher: Nature Publishing Group

ISSN (Electronic): 2045-2322

Publication date (Electronic): 15 February 2017

Publication date Collection: 2017

Volume: 7

Electronic Location Identifier: 42745

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[1 ]Department of Ultrasound Diagnostics, Tangdu Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University , Xi’an 710038, China

[2 ]Department of Cardiology, Tangdu Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University , Xi’an 710038, China

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[a ] caotsxcy@ 123456hotmail.com

[b ] yuanlj@ 123456fmmu.edu.cn

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Publisher Item ID: srep42745

DOI: 10.1038/srep42745

PMC ID: 5309885

PubMed ID: 28198458

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A Simple Method for Noninvasive Quantification of Pressure Gradient Across the Pulmonary Valve

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