Dual Triggering Improves the Accuracy of Left Ventricular Volume Measurements by Contrast-enhanced Real-time 3-Dimensional Echocardiography

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• 作者：Enrico G. Caiani ; PhD^?/sup> ; ^&dagger ; ; Patrick Coon ; BS ; RDCS^?/sup> ; Cristiana Corsi ; PhD^&Dagger ; ; Sascha Goonewardena ; MD^?/sup> ; Dianna Bardo ; MD^?/sup> ; Patrick Rafter ; MS^§ ; ; Lissa Sugeng ; MD^?/sup> ; Victor Mor-Avi ; PhD^?/sup> ; Roberto M. Lang ; MD^?/sup> ; ^{rlang@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu}
• 刊名：Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
• 出版年：2005
• 出版时间：December 2005
• 年：2005
• 卷：18
• 期：12
• 页码：1292-1298
• 全文大小：426 K

文摘

Real-time 3-dimensional echocardiographic continuous imaging (CIM) with contrast underestimates left ventricular (LV) volumes. We studied the effects of dual-triggered (DT) acquisition on the accuracy of LV volume measurements for patients with poor acoustic windows. Real-time 3-dimensional echocardiographic imaging was performed in 20 patients during LV opacification (Definity) on the same day as cardiac magnetic resonance imaging. Both CIM and DT data were analyzed using custom software to calculate end-systolic volume (ESV) and end-diastolic volume (EDV), which were compared with the cardiac magnetic resonance reference. CIM correlated well with the cardiac magnetic resonance reference (EDV: r = 0.89; ESV: r = 0.93), but underestimated EDV and ESV by 17 % and 19 % , respectively. In contrast, DT resulted in higher correlation (EDV: r = 0.95; ESV: r = 0.96) and smaller biases (9 % and 6 % , respectively). In conclusion, because the accuracy of LV volume measurements depends on the acquisition strategy of contrast-enhanced real-time 3-dimensional echocardiographic images, the use of DT instead of the conventional CIM acquisition is recommended.