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Means for load variation during echocardiographic assessment of the Frank-Starling relationship.

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Atkins, BZ; Silvestry, SC; Davis, JW; Kisslo, JA; Glower, DD
Published in: J Am Soc Echocardiogr
October 1999

Because minimally invasive methods of preload variation are not validated for load-insensitive indexes of cardiac performance, intravenous nitroglycerin (NTG), phenylephrine, and saline solution (VOL) boluses were used in blocked and intact autonomic states to alter load and were compared with vena caval occlusion in the assessment of preload recruitable stroke work relationships between stroke work and left ventricular end-diastolic volume in dogs. In both autonomic states NTG and VOL produced comparable linear relationships. NTG and saline solution were combined with noninvasive measurements of left ventricular pressure and volume to construct echocardiographic relationships between stroke work and left ventricular end-diastolic cross-sectional area; NTG produced linear relationships similar to vena caval occlusion. Therefore NTG and VOL reliably alter load in constructing preload recruitable stroke work relationships, and NTG may be used with noninvasive measurements to provide load-insensitive estimates of cardiac function in a minimally invasive manner.

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J Am Soc Echocardiogr

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0894-7317

Publication Date

October 1999

Volume

12

Issue

10

Start / End Page

792 / 800

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Ventricular Function, Left
  • Vasodilator Agents
  • Sodium Chloride
  • Phenylephrine
  • Papillary Muscles
  • Nitroglycerin
  • Linear Models
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
  • Hemodynamics
  • Echocardiography
 

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Atkins, B. Z., Silvestry, S. C., Davis, J. W., Kisslo, J. A., & Glower, D. D. (1999). Means for load variation during echocardiographic assessment of the Frank-Starling relationship. J Am Soc Echocardiogr, 12(10), 792–800. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0894-7317(99)70183-5
Atkins, B. Z., S. C. Silvestry, J. W. Davis, J. A. Kisslo, and D. D. Glower. “Means for load variation during echocardiographic assessment of the Frank-Starling relationship.J Am Soc Echocardiogr 12, no. 10 (October 1999): 792–800. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0894-7317(99)70183-5.
Atkins BZ, Silvestry SC, Davis JW, Kisslo JA, Glower DD. Means for load variation during echocardiographic assessment of the Frank-Starling relationship. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 1999 Oct;12(10):792–800.
Atkins, B. Z., et al. “Means for load variation during echocardiographic assessment of the Frank-Starling relationship.J Am Soc Echocardiogr, vol. 12, no. 10, Oct. 1999, pp. 792–800. Pubmed, doi:10.1016/s0894-7317(99)70183-5.
Atkins BZ, Silvestry SC, Davis JW, Kisslo JA, Glower DD. Means for load variation during echocardiographic assessment of the Frank-Starling relationship. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 1999 Oct;12(10):792–800.
Journal cover image

Published In

J Am Soc Echocardiogr

DOI

ISSN

0894-7317

Publication Date

October 1999

Volume

12

Issue

10

Start / End Page

792 / 800

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Ventricular Function, Left
  • Vasodilator Agents
  • Sodium Chloride
  • Phenylephrine
  • Papillary Muscles
  • Nitroglycerin
  • Linear Models
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
  • Hemodynamics
  • Echocardiography