Assessment of right ventricular function with nonimaging first pass ventriculography and comparison of results with gamma camera studies.
A new technique has been developed for measuring right ventricular function by nonimaging first pass ventriculography. The right ventricular ejection fraction (RVEF) obtained by non-imaging first pass ventriculography was compared with that obtained by gamma camera first pass and equilibrium ventriculography. The data has demonstrated that the correlation of RVEFs obtained by the nonimaging nuclear cardiac probe and by gamma camera first pass ventriculography in 15 subjects was comparable (r = 0.93). There was also a good correlation between RVEFs obtained by the nonimaging nuclear probe and by equilibrium gated blood pool studies in 33 subjects (r = 0.89). RVEF was significantly reduced in 15 patients with right ventricular and/or inferior myocardial infarction compared to normal subjects (28 +/- 9% v. 45 +/- 9%). The data suggests that nonimaging probes may be used for assessing right ventricular function accurately.
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Department of Nuclear Medicine, Cardiovascular Institute, Beijing, China.
Liu
X J
XJ
Liu
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Lu
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Crawley
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Lahiri
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000503:physiopathology; D012016:Reference Values; D016278:Ventricular Function, Right / Q000502:physiology*; D015646:Ventriculography, First-Pass / Q000379:methods*