Becker T E, Ensing G J, Darragh R K, Caldwell R L
Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University, Indianapolis, USA.
Am J Cardiol. 1996 Nov 1;78(9):1066-9. doi: 10.1016/s0002-9149(96)00541-3.
Doppler echocardiography can be used in patients with a patent ductus arteriosus to generate complete pulmonary artery pressure curves. This technique provides a dynamic evaluation of changes in pulmonary artery pressures throughout the cardiac cycle and provides more hemodynamic information than single-point Doppler velocity methods of estimating pulmonary artery pressures.
