title: Assessment of superior vena caval blood flow velocity in ischemic heart disease.
abstract: In order to evaluate the right atrial function in patients with ischemic heart-disease, we studied the superior vena caval blood flow velocity using pulsed Doppler echocardiography. The subjects included 31 patients with anteroseptal infarction (ANT), 23 with inferior or inferoposterior infarction (INF + POS), 27 with effort angina pectoris (EAP) and 15 with vasospastic angina pectoris (VAP). The systolic peak flow velocity (PFVs) was significantly reduced only in INF + POS compared with those in ANT, EAP and VAP (36.8 +/- 1.8 cm/sec vs 46.9 +/- 2.1 cm/sec, 46.4 +/- 2.1 cm/sec and 42.6 +/- 1.9 cm/sec, p less than 0.05, respectively). No significant difference in diastolic peak flow velocity (PFVd) was found between the 4 groups. PFVs/PFVd was significantly reduced only in INF + POS compared with those in ANT, EAP, and VAP (1.39 +/- 0.05 vs. 1.75 +/- 0.08, 1.76 +/- 0.09, and 1.62 +/- 0.09, p less than 0.05, respectively). These results suggested that INF + POS caused impairment of the right atrial reservoir function.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Internal Medicine, Osaka City University Medical School, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Murai
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Iida
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Itagane
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hirota
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yasuda
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Teragaki
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Akioka
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Oku
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Takeuchi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Takeda
mesh_terms: D000704:Analysis of Variance; D000787:Angina Pectoris / Q000503:physiopathology; D016280:Atrial Function, Right; D001783:Blood Flow Velocity; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000503:physiopathology; D013599:Systole; D014683:Vena Cava, Superior / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*