PMID- 28906373
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20171002
LR  - 20210109
IS  - 1536-5964 (Electronic)
IS  - 0025-7974 (Print)
IS  - 0025-7974 (Linking)
VI  - 96
IP  - 37
DP  - 2017 Sep
TI  - Predictive value of insufficient contrast medium filling in pulmonary veins in 
      patients with acute pulmonary embolism.
PG  - e7926
LID - 10.1097/MD.0000000000007926 [doi]
LID - e7926
AB  - This study is to investigate the predictive value of insufficient contrast medium 
      filling (ICMF) in patients with acute pulmonary embolism (PE).A total of 108 PE 
      patients were enrolled and divided into group A and group B according to the 
      presence of ICMF. PE index and ventricul araxial lengths were measured. Heart 
      cavity volumes were examined and right ventricle (RV) to left ventricle (LV) 
      diameter ratio (RV/LV(d)) and volume ratio (RV/LV(V)) and right atrium (RA) to 
      left atrium (LA) volume ratio (RA/LA(V)) were calculated and compared. Group A 
      was further divided into A1 and A2 based upon the pulmonary vein filling degree 
      and each index was compared.There were no significant differences between group A 
      and B in general condition. PE index of group A was higher than that of group B. 
      LA and LV in group A were smaller than that of group B, whereas RA in group A was 
      larger than that of group B. RV/LV(d), RV/LV(V), and RA/LA(V) in group A were 
      significantly larger than that of group B. Embolism index of group A2 was higher 
      than that of groupA1, but without statistical significant difference. LA in group 
      A2 was smaller than that of group A1, whereas RA, RV/LV(d), and RV/LV(V) were 
      larger than that of group A1, all with significant differences.PE increased with 
      serious ICMF in pulmonary veins could be used as an indicator for risk 
      stratification in patients with acute PE.
FAU - Zhang, Hong
AU  - Zhang H
AD  - Radiological Department, Tianjin Chest Hospital, Tianjin, P.R. China.
FAU - Ma, Yanhe
AU  - Ma Y
FAU - Song, Zhenchun
AU  - Song Z
FAU - Lv, Jun
AU  - Lv J
FAU - Yang, Yapeng
AU  - Yang Y
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - Medicine (Baltimore)
JT  - Medicine
JID - 2985248R
RN  - 0 (Contrast Media)
SB  - IM
MH  - Acute Disease
MH  - *Angiography/methods
MH  - *Contrast Media
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Predictive Value of Tests
MH  - Pulmonary Embolism/*diagnostic imaging/epidemiology/*physiopathology
MH  - Pulmonary Veins/*diagnostic imaging
MH  - Risk Assessment
MH  - *Tomography, X-Ray Computed
PMC - PMC5604642
COIS- The authors have no funding and conflicts of interest to disclose.
EDAT- 2017/09/15 06:00
MHDA- 2017/10/03 06:00
PMCR- 2017/09/15
CRDT- 2017/09/15 06:00
PHST- 2017/09/15 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2017/09/15 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2017/10/03 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2017/09/15 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 00005792-201709150-00025 [pii]
AID - MD-D-17-02111 [pii]
AID - 10.1097/MD.0000000000007926 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Medicine (Baltimore). 2017 Sep;96(37):e7926. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000007926.