Measurement of Pulmonary Transit Time by Echocardiography: Comparison With Cardiac MRI

Completed

Conditions studied: Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery

In brief

The focus of the present study is to further develop an echocardiographic technique to measure cardiopulmonary transit time (PTT) and pulmonary blood volume (PBV) using ultrasound contrast. The Specific Aims for the present study are as follows: 1. To compare echocardiography-based PTTs and cardiac MRI-based PTTs obtained using a 'peak-to-peak' method 2. To further quantify the relationship between echocardiographically-derived PTT, using Optison, and existing echocardiographic methods used to determine ventricular function 3. To measure the reproducibility of echocardiographically-based PTT using Optison.

Key facts

Study ID
NCT02088320
Run by
Vanderbilt University
People needed
17
Starts
2013-11-01
Expected to finish
2018-10-01
Last updated by the study team
2019-02-22

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

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Where it is running

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