Open AccessA simplified method for quantitating left-to-right shunts from arterial dilution curves.
Author(s) -
Benjamin E. Victorica,
Ira H. Gessner
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
circulation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795
H-Index - 607
eISSN - 1524-4539
pISSN - 0009-7322
DOI - 10.1161/01.cir.51.3.530
Subject(s) - medicine , shunt (medical) , indocyanine green , pulmonary artery , blood flow , indicator dilution , aorta , dilution , cardiology , left atrium , arterial blood , left pulmonary artery , nuclear medicine , cardiac output , hemodynamics , pathology , physics , thermodynamics , atrial fibrillation
This report presents a new, simple and reliable method of quantitating left-to-right shunts from arterial dilution surves. When indicatior (e,g., indocyanine green) is injected centrally (right venticle or pulmonary artery) and blood is withdrawn rapidly from either the aorta or other central systemic artery, in the presence of a left-to-right shunt to recorded indicator-dilution curve usually shows two discrete peaks: p-1 of the magnitude of the shunt expressed as percent of pulmonary blood flow, Experimental and clinical data demonstrate that this method is accurate in quantitating shunts from such curves.
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