title: Nomogram for Doppler echocardiographic assessment of mitral stenosis in atrial fibrillation.
abstract: Non-invasive assessment of the stenotic mitral valve area is often difficult when the mitral stenosis is associated with atrial fibrillation. In this study, 16 patients with mitral stenosis and atrial fibrillation were evaluated by transthoracic Doppler echocardiography. The mitral valve area calculated by the pressure half-time method was 1.65 +/- 0.73 cm2. The enddiastolic mitral gradient was obtained from the enddiastolic forward mitral flow velocity by application of the simplified Bernoulli equation. For each patient there was a linear relationship between the enddiastolic mitral gradient and the corresponding RR interval. The slope and intercept of this relationship were significantly correlated with the mitral valve area. From the regression equations describing these correlations we established a nomogram ascertaining mitral valve area from enddiastolic mitral gradient and corresponding heart rate. This nomogram was helpful in the non-invasive assessment of stenotic mitral valve area in the presence of atrial fibrillation.
authors.affiliation: University Hospital, Poitiers, France.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Christiaens
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Coisne
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Allal
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mergy
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Barraine
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001281:Atrial Fibrillation / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D001783:Blood Flow Velocity / Q000502:physiology; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000502:physiology; D003971:Diastole; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler; D005260:Female; D006339:Heart Rate / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D016014:Linear Models; D008297:Male; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D008946:Mitral Valve Stenosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D012044:Regression Analysis