Pulmonary Shunt Fraction Measurement Compared to Contrast Echocardiography in Hereditary Haemorrhagic Telangiectasia Patients: Time to Abandon the 100% Oxygen Method? | Zendy

Sebastiaan Velthuis | Zendy; Veronique M.M. Vorselaars | Zendy; Cornelis J.J. Westermann | Zendy; Repke J. Snijder | Zendy; Johannes J. Mager | Zendy; Martijn C. Post | Zendy

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Pulmonary Shunt Fraction Measurement Compared to Contrast Echocardiography in Hereditary Haemorrhagic Telangiectasia Patients: Time to Abandon the 100% Oxygen Method?

Author(s) -

Sebastiaan Velthuis,

Veronique M.M. Vorselaars,

Cornelis J.J. Westermann,

Repke J. Snijder,

Johannes J. Mager,

Martijn C. Post

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

respiration

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.264

H-Index - 81

eISSN - 1423-0356

pISSN - 0025-7931

DOI - 10.1159/000368416

Subject(s) - medicine , shunt (medical) , telangiectasia , pathological , cardiology , nuclear medicine , surgery

The presence of pulmonary right-to-left shunting (RLS) is associated with severe neurological complications from paradoxical embolisation in patients with hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) and screening is warranted. Pulmonary shunt fraction measurement with the 100% oxygen method can be used for the detection and quantification of functional pulmonary RLS, although transthoracic contrast echocardiography (TTCE) has emerged as the gold standard over the last few years.

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