Right ventricular outflow tract velocity time integral (RVOT VTI) and tricuspid regurgitation velocity/RVOT VTI ratio in pediatric pulmonary hypertension

Martin Koestenberger; Alexander Avian; Gernot Grangl; Ante Burmas; Stefan Kurath-Koller; Georg Hansmann

doi:10.1016/j.ijcard.2016.03.111

Right ventricular outflow tract velocity time integral (RVOT VTI) and tricuspid regurgitation velocity/RVOT VTI ratio in pediatric pulmonary hypertension

Int J Cardiol. 2016 Jun 1:212:274-6. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2016.03.111. Epub 2016 Mar 24.

Authors

Martin Koestenberger¹, Alexander Avian², Gernot Grangl³, Ante Burmas³, Stefan Kurath-Koller³, Georg Hansmann⁴

Affiliations

¹ Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Medical University Graz, Austria. Electronic address: martin.koestenberger@medunigraz.at.
² Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University Graz, Austria.
³ Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Medical University Graz, Austria.
⁴ Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Critical Care, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.

PMID: 27057933
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2016.03.111

No abstract available

Keywords: Age; Body surface area; Pediatric; Pulmonary hypertension; Right ventricular outflow tract velocity time integral; Tricuspid regurgitation velocity.

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Blood Flow Velocity
Child
Child, Preschool
Echocardiography, Doppler / methods*
Female
Heart Ventricles / diagnostic imaging*
Heart Ventricles / physiopathology
Humans
Hypertension, Pulmonary / diagnostic imaging
Hypertension, Pulmonary / physiopathology*
Infant
Male
Tricuspid Valve Insufficiency / diagnostic imaging
Tricuspid Valve Insufficiency / physiopathology*