IMO 1208 Diagnostic significance of severe portal vein pulsatility in patients with cardiac disease
✍ Scribed by Tanja S. Gorka; Waldemar A. Gorka
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 154 KB
- Volume
- 23
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0301-5629
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✦ Synopsis
We studied 20 patients with cardiovascular disorders. All patients had constant systemic blood pressure and body weight > 1 week prior to the study. Cardiac output (CO), left ventricular end-diastolic pressure (LVED), mean aortic pressure (AO), pulmonary wedge pressure (PW), mean pulmonary arterial pressure (PA), mean right atrial pressure @A), right ventricular end-diastolic pressure (RVED) were recorded during cardiac catherization.
Ten patients with RVED < 10 mmHg were classified as group 1. The re maining 10 patients with RVED > 10 mmHg were classilied as group 2. Portal profiles were studied using an