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Deceleration time of systolic pulmonary venous flow: a new clinical marker of left atrial pressure and compliance.
- Source :
- Journal of Applied Physiology; Feb2006, Vol. 100 Issue 2, p685-689, 5p, 3 Charts, 6 Graphs
- Publication Year :
- 2006
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Abstract
- The curvilinearity of the atrial pressure-volume curve implies that atrial compliance decreases progressively with increasing left atrial (LA) pressure (LAP), We predicted that reduced LA compliance leads to more rapid deceleration of systolic pulmonary venous (PV) flow. With this rationale, we investigated whether the deceleration time (t<subscript>dec</subscript>) of PV systolic flow velocity reflects mean LAP. In eight patients during coronary surgery, before extracorporeal circulation, PV flow by ultrasonic transit time and invasive LAP were recorded during stepwise volume loading. The t<subscript>dec</subscript> was calculated using two methods: by drawing a tangent through peak deceleration and by drawing a line from peak systolic flow through the nadir between the systolic and early diastolic flow waves. LA compliance was calculated as the systolic PV flow integral divided by LAP increment. Volume loading increased mean LAP from 11 ± 3 to 20 ± 5 mmHg (P < 0.001) (n = 40), reduced LA compliance from 1.16 ± 0.42 to 0.72 ± 0.40 ml/mmHg (P < 0.004) (n = 40), and reduced t<subscript>dec</subscript> from 320 ± 50 to 170 ± 40 ms (P < 0.0005) (n = 40). Mean LAP correlated well with t<subscript>dec</subscript> (r = 0.84, P < 0.0005) (n = 40) and LA compliance (r = 0.79, P < 0.0005) (n = 40). Elevated LAP caused a decrease in LA compliance and therefore more rapid deceleration of systolic PV flow. The t<subscript>dec</subscript> has potential to become a semiquantitative marker of LAP and an index of LA passive elastic properties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 87507587
- Volume :
- 100
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Applied Physiology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 19999652
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1152/japplphysiol.00705.2005