The effect of technical factors on the quality of pulmonary venous flow from the transverse and longitudinal imaging planes with transesophageal echocardiography

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : Official Publication of the American Society of Echocardiography
A L KleinI W Black

Abstract

Right and left upper pulmonary venous flow is usually assessed with monoplane transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) in the transverse imaging plane. Pulmonary venous flow in the transverse imaging plane may be relatively difficult to record because of the larger angle between the pulmonary vein and the transducer beam. To compare the quality of echocardiographically derived Doppler flows of the right and left upper pulmonary veins between the longitudinal and transverse imaging planes with TEE, we performed pulsed-wave Doppler TEE of both upper pulmonary veins in transverse and longitudinal imaging planes in 36 patients with various diseases. We also recorded a quality index for each flow profile and the angle between the transducer beam and the pulmonary vein. The quality index of the left pulmonary venous flow assessed with the longitudinal and transverse imaging planes was similar in 35 (95%) of 36 patients, whereas the longitudinal imaging plane was superior to the transverse plane in one patient (3%). In contrast, the quality index of the right pulmonary venous flow assessed with the longitudinal and transverse imaging planes was similar in only 19 (53%) of 36 patients, whereas in 17 patients (47%) the longitudinal imagin...Continue Reading

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Oct 1, 1996·Critical Care Clinics·D T Porembka
Jul 1, 1997·European Journal of Anaesthesiology·J PoelaertF Colardyn
Jan 1, 1997·Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : Official Publication of the American Society of Echocardiography·A L KleinD M Cosgrove
Jun 11, 2005·Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : Official Publication of the American Society of Echocardiography·Nikolaus JanderFranz Josef Neumann

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