Artifact production with micromanometers used to record intracardiac pressure and sound.
In horses experimental right and left heart catheterization using a catheter with two microtransducers 9 cm apart, usually in a transvalval position produced pressure and sound artifacts that confounded the diagnosis. Most were probably due to malpositioning resulting in movement through a valve during recording or impingement on the valve cusps or the chordae tendineae or lodgement in the apex of the heart. The recognition of these artifacts is particularly important in studies of large animals in which catheter siting cannot be monitored by radiography.
D000818:Animals; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization / Q000592:standards*; D004452:Echocardiography; D006321:Heart; D006736:Horses; D008365:Manometry / Q000295:instrumentation*; D008954:Models, Biological; D011312:Pressure; D014159:Transducers