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15073478

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2 Suppl 2
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-4-9
pubmed:abstractText
Cardiac output (CO) is an important diagnostic and prognostic tool for patients with ventricular dysfunction. Pulmonary hypertension patients undergo invasive right heart catheterization to determine pulmonary vascular and cardiac hemodynamics. Thermodilution (TD) and direct Fick method are the most common methods of CO determination but are costly and may be associated with complications. The latest generation of impedance cardiography (ICG) provides noninvasive estimation of CO and is now validated. The purpose of this study was to compare ICG measurement of CO to TD and direct Fick in pulmonary hypertension patients. Thirty-nine enrolled patients were analyzed: 44% were male and average age was 50.8+/-17.4 years. Results for bias and precision of cardiac index were as follows: ICG vs. Fick (-0.13 L/min/m2 and 0.46 L/min/m2), TD vs. Fick (0.10 L/min/m2 and 0.41 L/min/m2), ICG vs. TD (respectively, with a 95% level of agreement between -0.72 and 0.92 L/min/m2; CO correlation of ICG vs. Fick, TD vs. Fick, and ICG vs. TD was 0.84, 0.89, and 0.80, respectively). ICG provides an accurate, useful, and cost-effective method for determining CO in pulmonary hypertension patients, and is a potential tool for following responses to therapeutic interventions.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
1527-5299
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
10
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
7-10
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
Comparison of impedance cardiography to direct Fick and thermodilution cardiac output determination in pulmonary arterial hypertension.
pubmed:affiliation
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of California San Diego Medical Center, San Diego, CA 92103-8373, USA. gyung@ucsd.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study