Pulmonary blood volume in mitral stenosis.

Pulmonary blood volume in mitral stenosis.

Various haemodynamic parameters in patients with mitral stenosis have been extensively studied but only a few measurements of the pulmonary blood volume are available (Milnor et al., 1960; Dock et al., 1961 ; McGaff et al., 1963 ; Schreiner et al., 1963; Yu et al., 1963). Furthermore, no worker has correlated the pulmonary symptoms of patients with mitral stenosis to their pulmonary blood volum...

Pulmonary hypertension in mitral stenosis.

Exercising pulmonary blood flow in mitral stenosis with anomalous pulmonary venous connection.

Exercising pulmonary blood flow was estimated from indicator-dilution curves in a patient with the infrequent combination of rheumatic mitral stenosis and anomalous pulmonary venous connection from the left lung. During supine exercise against progressively increasing external workloads, the proportion of flow to each lung remained nearly constant. The pulmonary vascular resistance was highest ...

Pulmonary Blood Volume and Pulmonary Capillary Blood Volume in Valvular

Measurements of pulmonary blood volume (PBV) and pulmonary capillary blood volume (V,) and hemodynamic studies were made in a series of 106 patients with valvular heart disease (62 with predominant mitral lesions and 44 with predominant aortic lesions). The results were compared with the data obtained from 14 "normal" patients and nine normal subjects. In 14 "normal" patients, the PBV varied fr...

Ping-Pong Mitral Stenosis: Left Atrial Myxoma With Mitral Stenosis and Pulmonary Hypertension in an Octogenarian

Left atrial (LA) myxoma presenting with symptoms of mitral stenosis in elderly males is very rare accounting for 10% of the cases. We report an 80-year-old male who presented with symptoms of orthopnea and palpitations and was subsequently found to have a large LA myxoma obstructing the mitral valve and causing pulmonary hypertension (PHT).