TY - JOUR
T1 - Association of left ventricular filling parameters assessed by pulsed wave Doppler and color M-mode Doppler echocardiography with left ventricular pathology, pulmonary congestion, and left ventricular end-diastolic pressure
AU - Schwammenthal, Ehud
AU - Popescu, Bogdan A.
AU - Popescu, Andreea C.
AU - Di Segni, Elio
AU - Guetta, Victor
AU - Rath, Shmuel
AU - Eldar, Michael
AU - Feinberg, Micha S.
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported by a grant from the Israel Science Foundation, Jerusalem, Israel.
PY - 2004/8/15
Y1 - 2004/8/15
N2 - Among 90 consecutive patients with various degrees of left ventricular (LV) dysfunction (normal patients, LV hypertrophy, LV ejection fraction <50%, and <30%), the mitral valve pulse-wave E/A ratio showed a characteristic U-shaped curve with increasing severity of LV dysfunction. In contrast, there was a significant progressive decrease in flow propagation velocity of the E-wave (Vp) and a significant increase in E/Vp values with increasing severity of LV dysfunction. The E/Vp ratio was the best predictor of pulmonary congestion, and in a subgroup of patients who underwent cardiac catheterization, it was the only significant predictor of LV end-diastolic pressure.
AB - Among 90 consecutive patients with various degrees of left ventricular (LV) dysfunction (normal patients, LV hypertrophy, LV ejection fraction <50%, and <30%), the mitral valve pulse-wave E/A ratio showed a characteristic U-shaped curve with increasing severity of LV dysfunction. In contrast, there was a significant progressive decrease in flow propagation velocity of the E-wave (Vp) and a significant increase in E/Vp values with increasing severity of LV dysfunction. The E/Vp ratio was the best predictor of pulmonary congestion, and in a subgroup of patients who underwent cardiac catheterization, it was the only significant predictor of LV end-diastolic pressure.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.amjcard.2004.04.065
DO - 10.1016/j.amjcard.2004.04.065
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AN - SCOPUS:4344701237
SN - 0002-9149
VL - 94
SP - 488
EP - 491
JO - American Journal of Cardiology
JF - American Journal of Cardiology
IS - 4
ER -