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Cardiac CT Provides Complementary Parameters of Right Ventricle Function in LVAD Patients
Patients receiving LVADs are at risk for post-operative right ventricular (RV) failure. Cardiac CT angiography (CTA) provides 3D isotropic spatial resolution and blood pool-myocardial delineation and can be used to assess ventricular volumes. We sought to evaluate whether right heart catheterization (RHC) and echocardiographic (echo) parameters of RV structure and function correlate with CT-derived parameters - specifically, RV ejection fraction RVEF, RV stroke volume index RVSVI, RV to LV end diastolic ratio RV-LVEDR, and RV end diastolic volume index RVEDVI.
Source: The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation - March 16, 2019 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: A. Scott, P.J. Kim, H. Tran, M. Brambatti, Y. Ignatyeva, S. Rosenberg, S. Kligerman, A. Hsiao, V. Pretorius, E. Adler, F. Contijoch Tags: 1160 Source Type: research