Grading of mitral regurgitation by quantitative Doppler echocardiography: calibration by left ventricular angiography in routine clinical practice

KS Dujardin, M Enriquez-Sarano, KR Bailey… - Circulation, 1997 - Am Heart Assoc
Background Quantitative Doppler echocardiography and proximal flow convergence
methods are validated techniques for quantifying mitral regurgitation. However, the clinical …

Which physical factors determine tricuspid regurgitation jet area in the clinical setting?

JM Rivera, PM Vandervoort, JAV de Prada… - The American journal of …, 1993 - Elsevier
The visual assessment of jet area has become the most common method used in daily
clinical practice to evaluate valvular regurgitation. Despite the high prevalence of tricuspid …

A new method for quantification of regurgitant flow rate using color Doppler flow imaging of the flow convergence region proximal to a discrete orifice. An in vitro study.

F Recusani, GS Bargiggia, AP Yoganathan, A Raisaro… - Circulation, 1991 - Am Heart Assoc
While color Doppler flow mapping has yielded a quick and relatively sensitive method for
visualizing the turbulent jets generated in valvular insufficiency, quantification of the degree …

Three-dimensional ultrasound imaging model of mitral valve regurgitation: design and evaluation

SH Little, SR Igo, M McCulloch, CJ Hartley… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2008 - Elsevier
We describe the development of a cardiac flow model and imaging chamber to permit
Doppler assessment of complex and dynamic flow events. The model development included …

Two-dimensional color Doppler estimation of the severity of atrioventricular valve regurgitation: important effects of instrument gain setting, pulse repetition frequency …

JG Stevenson - Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, 1989 - Elsevier
Literature reports of good correlation between two-dimensional color Doppler and
ventriculography for estimation of the severity of atrioventricular valve regurgitation have …

A new method for noninvasive quantification of valvular regurgitation based on conservation of momentum. In vitro validation.

EG Cape, EG Skoufis, AE Weyman, AP Yoganathan… - Circulation, 1989 - Am Heart Assoc
The noninvasive Doppler assessment of regurgitant volume from jet size is limited by the
fundamental inequality of jet volume and regurgitant volume and by the dependence of jet …

A Three-Dimensional Computational Fluid Dynamics Model of Regurgitant Mitral Valve Flow: Validation Against In Vitro Standards and 3D Color Doppler Methods

A Quaini, S Canic, G Guidoboni, R Glowinski… - Cardiovascular …, 2011 - Springer
Abstract 3D color Doppler echocardiography has recently been employed to evaluate 3D
proximal isovelocity surface area (PISA) and vena contracta (VC) area measures of …

Vena contracta imaged by Doppler color flow mapping predicts the severity of eccentric mitral regurgitation better than color jet area: a chronic animal study

X Zhou, M Jones, T Shiota, I Yamada, D Teien… - Journal of the American …, 1997 - jacc.org
Objectives. This study sought to evaluate the relation between the color Doppler-imaged
vena contracta and the severity of mitral regurgitation (MR) in a chronic animal model of MR …

Effect of heart rate on centerline velocities of pulsatile intracardiac jets: an in vitro study with laser Doppler anemometry and pulsed Doppler ultrasound

A Cagniot, EG Cape, PG Walker… - Journal of the American …, 1992 - Elsevier
This article confirms a recently developed distal jet centerline technique for noninvasively
quantifying regurgitant cardiac valve flows. The basic principle that allows flow rate to be …

Direct measurement of proximal isovelocity surface area by single-beat three-dimensional color Doppler echocardiography in mitral regurgitation: a validation study

JA de Agustín, P Marcos-Alberca… - Journal of the American …, 2012 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: The two-dimensional (2D) proximal isovelocity surface area (PISA) method
has some technical limitations, mainly the geometric assumptions of PISA shape required to …