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Relationship of echocardiographic indices to pulmonary capillary wedge pressures in healthy volunteers

Michael S. Firstenberg, MD^*, Benjamin D. Levine, MD, Mario J. Garcia, MD^*, Neil L. Greenberg, PhD^*, Lisa Cardon, RDCS^*, Annitta J. Morehead, RDCS^*, Julie Zuckerman, RN and James D. Thomas, MD^*

^* Cardiovascular Imaging Center in the Department of Cardiology at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine at the Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA

View larger version (68K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Representative color M-mode image demonstrating Vp determination. Spatiotemporal relationship of diastolic flow from left atrium (LA) to left ventricle (LV) is shown color encoded.

View larger version (14K): [in a new window]   Figure 2 Relationship between PCWP and E/Vp. Linear regression analysis demonstrating the relationship between PCWP and E/Vp.

View larger version (19K): [in a new window]   Figure 3 Relationship between PCWP versus E/E'sep and E/E'lat. Linear regression analysis demonstrating the relationship between PCWP versus E/E'sep (A) and E/E'lat (B).