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Hemodynamics and Echocardiographic Diagnosis
  • Yoram Agmon, MD


  • Rambam Medical Center
  • HAIFA
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Pericardial Constraint
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Elevated Filling Pressures
Right Heart
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Elevated Filling Pressures
Left Heart
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Equalization of Filling Pressures
 Right / Left Heart
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Equalization of Pressures
Diagnostic Accuracy
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Equalization of Pressures
Diagnostic Accuracy
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Pulmonary Artery Pressure
Modest Elevation
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Pulmonary Artery Pressure
Diagnostic Accuracy
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Traditional Criteria
Overall Accuracy
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Traditional Criteria
Overall Accuracy
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“New” Criteria
Dynamic Respiratory Hemodynamics
  • Dissociation of intra-thoracic &
  • intra-pericardial pressures


  • Right / left heart interdependence
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I. Dissociation of Pressures
Intrathoracic / Intrapericardial
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Early Diastolic LV Filling
Cath / Doppler Correlation
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Dissociation of Pressures
Doppler Correlate
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Restrictive Cardiomyopathy
Lack of Pressure Dissociation
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D Mitral Inflow E Velocity
Constriction vs Restriction
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D Mitral Inflow E Velocity
Constriction vs Restriction
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II. Ventricular Interdependence
“Fixed” Intra-pericardial Volume
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Ventricular Interdependence
2-D – “Septal Bounce”
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Ventricular Interdependence
M-Mode Correlate
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Septal Bounce
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Septal Bounce
M-Mode
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Hemodynamics - Constriction
Ventricular Discordance
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Hemodynamics - Restriction
Ventricular Concordance
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Ventricular Interdependence
Constriction vs Restriction
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Ventricular Interdependence
Doppler Correlate
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Restrictive Cardiomyopathy
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Ventricular Interdependence
Doppler Accuracy
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Hemodynamics - Constriction
Ventricular Discordance – Outflow Duration
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III. “Atrial Interdependence”
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Hepatic Venous Flow
Constrictive Pericarditis
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Hepatic Venous Flow
Constriction vs Restriction
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Hepatic Venous Flow
Constriction vs Restriction
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Diagnostic Caveats
I. Filling Pressures ­­
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Filling Pressures ­­
Solution – Preload Reduction
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Filling Pressures ­­
Preload Reduction
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Diagnostic Caveats
II. COPD
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COPD
Solution – SVC Doppler
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Diagnostic Caveats
III. Sinus Tachycardia (E & A Fusion)
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Diagnostic Caveats
IV. Atrial Fibrillation – Solutions
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New Diagnostic Techniques
Tissue Doppler
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Tissue Doppler
Constriction vs Restriction
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New Diagnostic Techniques
Color M-Mode
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Etiologic Spectrum
Constriction & Co-existing Myocardial DysFx
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The Diagnostic Challenge – 2007
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Echocardiography – Advantages
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Pericardial Imaging
Anatomical Support of Constrictive Physiology
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Pericardial Imaging
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Pericardial Imaging – TTE
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Diagnostic Approach
Combined Anatomy & Physiology
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Practical Approach
Echocardiographic Screening
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