Does the combination of tissue Doppler imaging and mitral inflow velocity curves improve the estimation of LV filling pressures compared to other methods?
A stepwise approach incorporating tissue Doppler imaging and mitral inflow velocity curves is recommended for accurate estimation of LV filling pressures.
The combination of tissue Doppler imaging of the mitral annulus and mitral inflow velocity curves provides better estimates of LV filling pressures than other methods (pulmonary vein, preload reduction). However, accurate prediction of filling pressures for an individual patient requires a stepwise approach incorporating all available data.
Ommen et al. (Tue,) studied this question.
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