To evaluate left-to-right shunts after percutaneous balloon mitral valvuloplasty, we studied 15 consecutive patients by using transesophageal color Doppler flow-imaging system. Transesophageal color Doppler examinations were performed five times in each patient (before valvuloplasty and 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, and 6 months after valvuloplasty). No shunt flow was observed before valvuloplasty. O...

BACKGROUND The ability of transesophageal color Doppler echocardiography to provide high-resolution images of both cardiac structure and blood flow in real time is advantageous for many clinical purposes. This study was performed to determine the utility of the regurgitant jet width at its origin measured by transesophageal Doppler color flow imaging in the assessment of severity of mitral regu...

BACKGROUND Fetal color Doppler is important for evaluation of hypoxia in intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) fetus. OBJECTIVE In this study we compare fetal and maternal color Doppler with blood gas analysis to detect fetal acidosis. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this cross-sectional study we evaluated 100 hospitalized patients with IUGR for comparison of color Doppler results with arterial b...

We intended to compare gray-scale vs. color Doppler ultrasound findings in cold thyroid nodules. Sixty-four patients with cold thyroid nodules for whom the presumptive diagnosis of malignancy (based on isotope scan study) had been made were consecutively included. They underwent gray-scale and color Doppler sonography studies. Based on histopathologic examination of surgically removed nodules, ...

The surgical approach to the repair of a ruptured sinus of Valsalva aneurysm can depend on the cardiac chamber into which rupture occurs. This report details the color flow Doppler images in two patients who developed a right sinus of Valsalva aneurysm to right atrial fistula owing to bacterial endocarditis. In both cases, the color flow Doppler image was superior to contrast aortography in ide...

25 Although color Doppler ultrasonography has been used to evaluate testicular blood flow in 26 many species, very little has been done in goat. Eight male Shiba goats were exposed to a 27 single intramuscular injection of either gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH group; 28 1μg/kg BW) or human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG group; 25 IU/kg BW). Plasma 29 testosterone (T), estradiol (E2), and inh...

We employed color Doppler score as an innovative approach for the prenatal diagnosis and monitoring of a large placental chorioangioma case diagnosed at 26 weeks and the subjective semiquantitative assessment of the vascularization. The blood flow was assessed by a color Doppler score based on the intensity of the color signal with the following value ranges: (1) no flow, (2) minimal flow, (3) ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Distal to a hemodynamically significant stenosis, the Doppler effect becomes dampened. Thus, measuring the flow profile in the ophthalmic artery and the central retinal artery with color Doppler imaging may provide hemodynamic information about the carotid circulation. METHODS To validate the flow profile measurement with color Doppler imaging in the ophthalmic and cent...

PURPOSE Three-chamber view (3ch.) three-directional encoded phase-contrast magnetic resonance velocity vector mapping (PCMRVM) has been used for visualization and assessment of intra-cardiac flow. Although transmitral inflow velocity can be determined using this method by tracing mitral tips during the cardiac phase, its feasibility for clinical applications has not been established. Our aim wa...

OBJECTIVES The saccharide ultrasound contrast agent SHU 508 A was used to test the hypothesis that an intravenous, transpulmonary contrast method can enhance color Doppler flow signals in the left atrium in a clinically useful manner. BACKGROUND Color Doppler display of mitral regurgitation may be unreliable because of variable signal to noise ratios that are at times poor. Traditional contra...