Which echocardiographic Doppler left ventricular diastolic function measurements are most feasible in the clinical echocardiographic laboratory?
Numerous measures of left ventricular diastolic function are currently in clinical use. To determine which echo-Doppler left ventricular diastolic function measurements are most feasible in the clinical echocardiographic laboratory, the success rate, recording time taken by the sonographer, and inter-reader variability were calculated for transmitral valve inflow, pulmonary vein flow, tissue Doppler imaging, and color M-mode flow propagation velocity in 80 inpatients.
St. John Hospital and Medical Center, Detroit, Michigan 48236, USA.
Shahabuddin
S
Khan
Renee L
RL
Bess
Howard S
HS
Rosman
Cheryl K
CK
Nordstrom
Gerald I
GI
Cohen
Julius M
JM
Gardin
D000368:Aged; D003971:Diastole; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015588:Observer Variation; D013997:Time Factors; D016277:Ventricular Function, Left