Open AccessThe / filling index and right ventricular pressure in relation to applied international Doppler recommendations of left ventricular filling assessment
Author(s) -
C WALLENTINGURON,
Odd BechHanssen,
Ronny Wikh,
Annika Rosengren,
Marianne Hartford,
K CAIDAHL
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
european journal of echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.576
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 1525-2167
pISSN - 1532-2114
DOI - 10.1016/j.euje.2005.01.005
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , doppler echocardiography , doppler effect , diastole , blood pressure , physics , astronomy
A ratio>15 between the early diastolic pulsed Doppler velocities of the mitral inflow (E) and the basal left ventricular (LV) tissue (e) has been demonstrated to predict an elevated LV filling pressure (FP). An elevated LVFP implies an elevated right ventricular pressure (RVp). In order to investigate the sensitivity of the E/e filling index, we compared E/e and RVp, in their ability to identify a Doppler-assumed elevation of LVFP.
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