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To test the clinical validity of the stroke volume ratio (SVR) and the factors influencing its value we determined it in a population of 41 patients free of valvular regurgitation.
The SVR was estimated from multigated blood pool scans in left anterior oblique position by two methods. The first method followed the classical formula of the left to right ventricular stroke count ratio. The second method used the same formula except that the right atrial activity emanating from the area of right atrioventricular overlap as traced at right ventricular end-systole, was subtracted from the right ventricular stroke count.
The SVR averaged 1.25±0.18 (range 0.97–1.80) by the first technique and 1.05±0.12 (range 0.82–1.36) by the second (P<0.001).
In our results the SVR is not correlated to either ejection fraction or angiographically determined left ventricular volumes. Conversely the SVR is correlated with the left to right end-diastolic volume ratio evaluated from radionuclide counts measured at right and left ventricular end-diastole (r=0.48, P<0.01). This may be due to variations in the area of right atrioventricular overlap, depending on the size of the ventricular chamber.
It is postulated that the accuracy of SVR determination could be enhanced by subtraction of the right atrial activity from the right ventricular activity at end-systole. In patients free of valvular regurgitation the LV/RV stroke volume ratio approaches unity and the variability of the results is smaller. Interobserver and intraobserver variability is reduced using the Fourier phase approach.
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Berthout, P., Cardot, J.C., Baud, M. et al. Factors influencing the quantitication of valvular regurgitation by gated equilibrium radionuclide angiography. Eur J Nucl Med 9, 112–114 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00253511
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00253511