Estimation of pulmonary artery pressure by colour guided continuous wave Doppler in cases of ventricular septal defect and tricuspid regurgitation.
The accuracy of a non-invasive estimation of systolic pulmonary artery pressure in 33 patients with ventricular septal defect and/or tricuspid regurgitation, by colour guided continuous wave Doppler was evaluated. The estimated pulmonary artery pressure correlated well with values obtained at cardiac catheterization (r = 0.93). Correlation was better in cases with ventricular septal defect (r = 0.98) than in cases with tricuspid regurgitation (r = 0.87). Pulmonary artery pressure was under-estimated in cases with mild tricuspid regurgitation, probably due to eccentricity of regurgitant jet in some of these cases.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler; D005260:Female; D006345:Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011669:Pulmonary Wedge Pressure; D014262:Tricuspid Valve Insufficiency / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*