Clinical StudiesThe pulmonary venous systolic flow pulse—its origin and relationship to left atrial pressure☆
Under an Elsevier user license
open archive
Abbreviations
AS
atrial systole
AV
atrioventricular
A-wave
pressure wave generated by the atrial systole
CABG
coronary artery bypass grafting
CAD
coronary artery disease
D
diastole
dP × dU
product of increments in pressure (dP) and velocity (dU) over 5 ms intervals
ECG
electrocardiogram
LA
left atrial or atrium
LV
left ventricular or ventricle
Peak D flow rate
peak pulmonary venous diastolic flow rate
Peak S flow rate
peak pulmonary venous systolic flow rate
PV
pulmonary vein or venous
RV
right ventricular or ventricle
S
systole
S1
early systolic flow pulse
S2
late systolic flow pulse
VS
ventricular systole
Cited by (0)
- ☆
This study was supported by the Norwegian Research Council.
Copyright © 1999 American College of Cardiology. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.