Usefulness of branch pulmonary artery regurgitant fraction to estimate the relative right and left pulmonary vascular resistances in congenital heart disease.
In postoperative congenital heart patients with pulmonary regurgitation, individual branch pulmonary artery regurgitant fractions estimate relative pulmonary vascular resistance independent of pulmonary blood flow distribution.
Harris
Matthew A
MA
Division of Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA. harrismat@email.chop.edu
Weinberg
Paul M
PM
Whitehead
Kevin K
KK
Fogel
Mark A
MA
D001783:Blood Flow Velocity / Q000502:physiology; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D002648:Child; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D011379:Prognosis; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D014463:Ultrasonography; D014655:Vascular Resistance / Q000502:physiology*