title: [Scintigraphic quantification of pulmonary pressure increase in mitral valve stenoses based thallium uptake by the lung].
abstract: 30 patients (24 fm, 6 m) with angiographically proven mitral stenosis as well as 10 healthy controls were investigated by wedge catheterism and thallium-201-scintigraphy to calculate the heart-lung quotient of the isotope. All patients with mitral stenosis could be discriminated from controls by a pathological increase of isotope concentration in the lungs. 4 groups could be subdivided: the first consisted of 8 patients with normal pulmonary artery pressure of x = 13.06 mm Hg and a normal heart-lung quotient less than 1.1. The second group of 15 patients showed passive pulmonary hypertension with a PAm of x = 27.57 mm Hg and heart-lung quotients between 1.1 and 1.4. A third group of 9 patients showed PAm of 36.76 mm Hg with reactive hypertension and a HLQ between 1.4 and 1.6. The last group of patients showed pulmonary hypertension of x = 45 mmHgPAm and a heart-lung quotient of greater than 1.6. Scintigraphy alone allowed classification of the patients, so the value of this method is proven for pre- and postoperative strategy.
authors.affiliation: Abteilungen Kardiologie und Radiologie, Universitätsklinikum Rudolf Virchow, Freie Universität Berlin.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Eichstädt
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Danne
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bäder
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Schendzielorz
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Kaiser
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Schmutzler
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Felix
mesh_terms: D005080:Exercise Test / Q000295:instrumentation; D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008946:Mitral Valve Stenosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011669:Pulmonary Wedge Pressure / Q000502:physiology; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D012588:Scintillation Counting / Q000295:instrumentation; D013794:Thallium Radioisotopes
chemical_list: D013794:Thallium Radioisotopes
vernacular_title: Szintigraphische Quantifizierung der pulmonalen Druckerhöhung bei Mitralstenosen durch den Lungen-Thallium-Uptake.