Affiliation:
1. Second Department of Internal Medicine, Gifu University School of Medicine, Gifu, Japan
Abstract
During ventricular systole, the left atrium (LA) stores a certain amount of ventricular stroke volume; this is defined as an LA storage volume. From cineangiocardiograms, an LA storage fraction is obtained as the ratio of the LA storage volume to left ventric ular stroke volume. From the pulmonary vein (PV) flow velocity-time profile, the LA storage fraction may be estimated as a ratio of the PV flow velocity-time integral during systole (Sa) to a sum of that during systole and diastole (Sa+Da), namely, Sa/(Sa+Da), provided that the PV cross-sectional area remains relatively unchanged during one cardiac cycle and that the PV flow velocity-time profile is similar in any of the PVs draining to the LA. To evaluate usefulness of Doppler echocardiographic method of estimating the LA storage fraction, the authors measured the LA storage fraction from the left upper PV flow velocity-time profile by transesophageal Doppler echocardiography and compared it with the LA storage fraction from conventional cineangiocardiographic volumes. (continued on next page) Subjects were 23 patients with a variety of cardiac diseases in normal sinus rhythm, ranging from eighteen to seventy-four years of age. The LA storage fraction was 0.58 ±0.12 (mean ±SD) from cineangiocardiography and 0.64 ±0.08 from Doppler echocar diography. Although the LA storage fraction from Doppler echocardiography was signif icantly larger than that from cineangiocardiography (P < 0.01), the correlation was good ( r=0.643). The authors conclude that the left upper PV flow velocity-time profile appears to provide a better correlation with that by cineangiography and may be used as a reliable quantitative estimate of the LA storage fraction.
Subject
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
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