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  • Title: Quantification of left to right shunts by echo Doppler cardiography in patients with ventricular septal defects.
    Author: Teien D, Karp K, Wendel H, Human DG, Nanton MA.
    Journal: Acta Paediatr Scand; 1991 Mar; 80(3):355-60. PubMed ID: 2035331.
    Abstract:
    Thirty-one patients with ventricular septal defect were evaluated with Echo Doppler cardiography and colour flow mapping. The ventricular septal defect area was estimated by measurement of the jet diameter by colour flow mapping. The ventricular septal defect flow was calculated as the product of the cross-sectional area of the ventricular septal defect and the velocity time integral of flow through the defect. In ten patients the diameter obtained by colour flow mapping was compared with the diameter obtained at angiography, r = 0.88 (SD = 0.14 cm). The aortic flow was calculated as the product of left ventricular outflow tract cross-sectional area and the corresponding velocity time integral. QP/QS ratio was estimated as (ventricular defect flow + aortic flow)/aortic flow and compared to estimates by a radionuclide or oximetric method. A correlation of r = 0.95 (SD = 0.23) was found.
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