Author:
McKay R G,Spears J R,Aroesty J M,Baim D S,Royal H D,Heller G V,Lincoln W,Salo R W,Braunwald E,Grossman W
Abstract
The feasibility of using continuous on-line recording of intraventricular electrical impedance to measure ventricular stroke volume was assessed in 12 patients at cardiac catheterization with a multielectrode impedance catheter and a 1.3 kHz measuring current of 4 microA. Stroke volumes determined by electrical impedance were compared with stroke volumes determined by the thermodilution technique in 10 patients and correlated with an r value of .95. Directional changes in impedance recordings throughout the cardiac cycle were also compared with volume curves obtained from six patients by radionuclide ventriculography, and in all instances the agreement between the two volume recordings was excellent. For all patients, on-line measurements of impedance showed a beat-by-beat decrease in stroke volume with the Valsalva maneuver and the administration of amyl nitrite, as well as an immediate increase in stroke volume in the contraction following an extra-systolic beat. Similar directional changes in stroke volume were recorded in both left and right ventricles. Left ventricular pressure-volume relationships were assessed with simultaneous left ventricular pressure recordings and volume signals recorded from the impedance catheter to determine if impedance measurements of volume can be used clinically. Pressure-volume diagrams were subsequently plotted, and for all patients these diagrams showed characteristic isovolumetric contraction and relaxation phases as well as typical ejection and filling periods. Moreover, beat-by-beat sequential pressure-volume diagrams constructed for patients during the administration of amyl nitrite revealed a linear end-systolic pressure-volume relationship.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
Publisher
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Subject
Physiology (medical),Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
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