Prognostic significance of right ventricular hypokinesis and perfusion lung scan defects in pulmonary embolism
| Autor: | Mark W. Wolfe, Samuel Z. Goldhaber, Michael L. Feldstein, Patricia C. Come, John Parker, Richard T. Lee |
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| Rok vydání: | 1994 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors Heart disease Scintigraphy Random Allocation medicine Humans False Positive Reactions Lung Chi-Square Distribution medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Vascular disease Respiratory disease Prognosis medicine.disease Pulmonary embolism medicine.anatomical_structure ROC Curve Echocardiography Ventricular Function Right Radiology Pulmonary Embolism Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business Perfusion |
| Zdroj: | American Heart Journal. 127:1371-1375 |
| ISSN: | 0002-8703 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/0002-8703(94)90058-2 |
| Popis: | We studied the relation between right ventricular (RV) hypokinesis on echocardiography and defects on the initial perfusion lung scan among 90 hemodynamically stable patients with pulmonary embolism (PE). Of the 90, 38 had qualitative evidence of RV hypokinesis, with a mean RV end-diastolic area significantly larger than those with normal RV wall motion (40.0 +/- 10.2 cm2 vs 20.1 +/- 6.4 cm2; p0.001). The degree of the perfusion defect was greater in those patients with baseline RV hypokinesis (54% +/- 16% of the lung nonperfused) than in those patients with normal RV wall motion at baseline (30% +/- 18% nonperfused lung; p0.001). Receiver operating characteristic curve analysis showed that a perfusion lung scan defect score of 0.3 (i.e., 30% of the lung nonperfused) had a 92% sensitivity for predicting RV hypokinesis and carried a relative risk for observing RV hypokinesis of 6.8 times greater than among those patients with a perfusion scan score of0.3. Considering that all patients with recurrent symptomatic PE were in the subgroup with RV hypokinesis (13% vs 0% for those with normal RV wall motion; p = 0.01), a strategy of performing echocardiography in those patients with a perfusion scan defect score ofor = 0.3 appears to identify patients at increased risk for recurrent PE. |
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