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Limitations of the Pressure Half‐Time Method for Estimating Mitral Valve Area in the Presence of Atrial Flutter
Author(s) -
REDDY N. KRISHNA,
RAO D. SESHAGIRI,
RAJU B. SOMA
Publication year - 1993
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.1540-8175.1993.tb00005.x
Subject(s) - atrial flutter , cardiology , medicine , flutter , mitral valve , mitral valve stenosis , stenosis , left atrial pressure , doppler echocardiography , hemodynamics , blood pressure , atrial fibrillation , diastole , mechanics , physics , aerodynamics
A patient with congenital ventricular septal defect and acquired rheumatic mitral stenosis with atrial flutter was noninvasively studied. The influence of atrial flutter on Doppler flow patterns across the mitral valve and the limitations of the pressure half‐time method for estimating mitral valve area in the presence of atrial flutter are discussed.