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Published on: October 14, 2016
[Gamma-angiography during exercise in chronic aortic insufficiency. Development of ventricular function and
Abstract:
Twenty-three patients with chronic aortic incompetence (17 men and 6 women) aged 27 to 71 years (average 51 years) underwent sequential gamma-angiography at rest and during the different levels of exercise and recovery phase to investigate the evolution of ventricular function and regurgitant fraction and so, guide therapy. The radionuclide indices of left ventricular function (end diastolic and end systolic indexed volumes, global ejection fraction, regional wall motion) and the regurgitant fractions were calculated and compared with clinical, echocardiographic, angiographic and haemodynamic data. The changes observed on effort during gamma-angiography allowed identification of 3 groups of patients: Group I: compensated aortic incompetence with a normal left ventricular ejection fraction (0.69 +/- 0.1), a moderate regurgitant fraction (40 per cent +/- 20 per cent) and, during exercise, a stable left ventricular end diastolic volume index (less than 5 per cent variation), an end systolic volume index which decreased (average-13 per cent), an ejection fraction which increases (by more than 0.05 in 62.5 per cent of cases) and with good global and regional wall motion. Group II: intermediate cases with a left ventricular ejection fraction of 0.62 +/- 0.09 and a regurgitant fraction of 60 +/- 16 per cent. Individual variations were observed with this group which either resembled those of Group I or those of Group III.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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