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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Meyer, Gerd Peter
• Laudenberg, Bernd
• Hausmann, Dirk
• Mügge, Andreas
• Cremer, Joachim
• Hornig, Burkhard
• Weiss, Thomas
• Hecker, Hartmut
• Haverich, Axel
• Drexler, Helmut
• Schaefer, Arnd

Titel

Transthoracic doppler validation in mammary artery grafts after minimal invasive direct coronary artery bypass operation

Ist Teil von

• Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, 2004-09, Vol.17 (9), p.954-961, Article 954

Ort / Verlag

United States: Mosby, Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2004

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This study was performed to validate noninvasive transthoracic Doppler ultrasound (TTD) with simultaneous invasive Doppler guidewire measurements in patients after minimal invasive direct coronary artery bypass operation. A total of 14 patients were examined 3 to 8 days after minimal invasive direct coronary artery bypass operation. TTD was performed to measure systolic and diastolic peak velocities of the left internal mammary artery (LIMA) at rest and during adenosine-induced hyperemia. Simultaneous Doppler guidewire measurements were performed. LIMA flow was detected in 12 of 14 patients (86%). There was high agreement between TTD and Doppler guidewire measurements of LIMA flow velocities (systolic peak velocity: r = 0.86, y = 11.3 + 0.82x ± 7.9; diastolic peak velocity: r = 0.95, y = 5.7 + 1.02x ± 7.5; average peak velocity: r = 0.95, y = 5.2 + 0.94x ± 5.4; and flow velocity reserve: r = 0.97, y = 5.2 + 0.99x ± 4.5). TTD represents an accurate method to evaluate flow velocities and flow velocity reserve of LIMA bypass grafts even in the early phase after minimal invasive direct coronary artery bypass operation.