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Doppler Evaluation of Left Ventricular Compliance and Ventricular Filling Abnormalities
Author(s) -
SMITH MIKEL D.,
DRINKOVIC NIKSA,
HARRISON MICHAEL R.,
WISENBAUGH THOMAS,
BERK MARTIN R.,
DeMARIA ANTHONY N.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1540-8175
pISSN - 0742-2822
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1992.tb00484.x
Subject(s) - compliance (psychology) , cardiology , medicine , diastole , ventricular filling , ventricular function , doppler effect , cardiac catheterization , doppler echocardiography , diastolic function , blood pressure , psychology , social psychology , physics , astronomy
Left ventricular diastolic dysfunction has recently been recognized as an important factor contributing to the signs and symptoms of a number of common cardiovascular disorders. Both invasive and noninvasive measures of left ventricular compliance and ventricular filling have been developed to assist in the clinical documentation of diastolic performance. However, each of these catheterization and Doppler parameters remains limited as a single descriptor of diastolic function, due to the complexity of factors involved in left ventricular filling and distensibility. The purpose of this article is to review the available data relating Doppler transmitral velocities with clinical descriptors and catheterization measures of left ventricular filling and compliance.