Cardiovascular Diseases & Diagnosis

Bettina-Maria Taute

Publications

• Research Article
  Spectral Doppler Waveform Analysis of Common Femoral Veins for the Detection of Right Ventricular Dysfunction in Acute Pulmonary Embolism
  Author(s): Bettina-Maria Taute, Hendrik Schmidt, Andreas Gunter Bach, Ronald Fischer, Christin Le Hoa Tran, Mroawan Amoury and Hannes MelnykBettina-Maria Taute, Hendrik Schmidt, Andreas Gunter Bach, Ronald Fischer, Christin Le Hoa Tran, Mroawan Amoury and Hannes Melnyk
  
  Background Changes of central and peripheral venous hemodynamics (PVH) are registered in patients with acute pulmonary embolism (PE) with right ventricular dysfunction (RVD). It can be assumed the change of PVH is detectable through spectral Doppler waveform analysis of the common femoral veins (CFV) and regular respiratory modulated (RM) flow is replaced as a function of the severity of the RVD by cardiac modulation (CM) of the velocity-time spectra. The aim of this study is to examine, through detection of CM at the CFV, whether indirect diagnostics of the RVD is possible in patients with acute PE. Methods Quantification of RVD was performed through an echocardiographic right heart score (RHS) in patients with acute PE. The RHS integrated four parameters: the size of the right ventricle, the RV kinetics, the motion of the interventricular septum and the right atrial size. The sonogr.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2329-9517.1000187

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