Doppler echocardiographic determination of mitral valvular resistance to inertiance ratio

Krishnamoorthy Lakshminarayan, Andrew F. Hall, Sandor J. Kovacs

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Abstract

Mitral valve resistance is defined as the ratio of the atrio-ventricular pressure gradient to the volumetric flow across the valve in diastole. The mitral valve inertiance is defined as the product of the blood density and the volumetric flow rate. These physiologic parameters have been usually determined by invasive methods such as cardiac catheterization. We show that quantitative determination of the mitral resistance to inertiance ratio can be accomplished by solution of the 'inverse problem' of diastole, when the clinical transmitral Doppler tracing is analyzed using the parametrized diastolic filling (PDF) formalism.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the Annual Conference on Engineering in Medicine and Biology
PublisherPubl by IEEE
Pages551-552
Number of pages2
Editionpt 1
ISBN (Print)0780313771
StatePublished - Dec 1 1993
EventProceedings of the 15th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society - San Diego, CA, USA
Duration: Oct 28 1993Oct 31 1993

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Annual Conference on Engineering in Medicine and Biology
Numberpt 1
Volume15
ISSN (Print)0589-1019

Conference

ConferenceProceedings of the 15th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
CitySan Diego, CA, USA
Period10/28/9310/31/93

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