Reproducibility of pulsed wave tissue Doppler echocardiography

Vinereanu, Dragos, Khokhar, Azhar and Fraser, Alan Gordon 1999. Reproducibility of pulsed wave tissue Doppler echocardiography. Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography 12 (6) , pp. 492-499. 10.1016/s0894-7317(99)70086-6

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Abstract

Four hundred and eighty paired recordings obtained from 16 patients (55 +/- 10 yrs; 10 men, 6 women) were analyzed to determine the reproducibility of both acquiring and measuring myocardial velocities recorded by tissue Doppler echocardiography. To assess intraobserver variability, 1 observer recorded and measured the data twice, from the same patients, and to assess interobserver variability, patients were examined by 2 independent observers. For the left ventricle, intraobserver reproducibility was higher when assessing long-axis velocities (+/- 10% to 16%) than short-axis velocities (+/- 14% to 24%). For the right ventricle, intraobserver reproducibility was high for the tricuspid annulus (+/- 9% to 15%), but unsatisfactory for the right ventricular anterior wall (+/- 21% to 25%). The highest interobserver reproducibilities were obtained for systolic and diastolic velocities of the lateral mitral annulus (+/- 9% to 17%) and systolic velocity of the tricuspid annulus (+/-13%). Interobserver reproducibility of the ratio of early-to-late peak diastolic velocities was very low for all investigated sites (+/- 20% to 52%). With the use of current techniques and software, reproducibility of acquiring and measuring tissue Doppler echocardiography is suboptimal for both systolic and diastolic myocardial velocities.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General) R Medicine > RZ Other systems of medicine
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0894-7317
Last Modified:	04 Jun 2017 07:50
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/68682

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