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2072998

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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
1991-4-10
pubmed:abstractText
We mechanocardiographically evaluated 50 patients with acute myocardial infarction, invasively monitored by Swan-Ganz catheters, in order to assess if mechanocardiography could provide reliable hemodynamic informations. The last 25 subjects were also studied by pulsed Doppler echocardiography. Our results confirm the high precision of apexcardiography in assessing mean pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (r = 0.91) while Doppler echocardiography proved itself better than mechanocardiography in assessing cardiac output (r = 0.82 vs r = 0.78). Moreover, Doppler echocardiography allowed a good estimation of mean pulmonary artery pressure (r = 0.81) which cannot be assessed by other noninvasive methods. However, we could not find any clinically useful relationship between Doppler mitralic flow characteristics and mean pulmonary capillary wedge pressure. Therefore noninvasive methods could represent a valid alternative to right heart catheterization provided that an integrated Doppler echocardiographic and mechanocardiographic approach is used.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0001-5385
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
45
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
511-20
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-6-11
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1990
pubmed:articleTitle
Evaluation of noninvasive alternatives to right heart catheterization.
pubmed:affiliation
Service of Cardiology, Ospedale di Gallarate, Italy.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article