Andrew A. Pellett, Ph.D., R.D.C.S.,∗§ William G. Tolar, B.S.,†§ Darrin G. Merwin, B.S.,†§, and Edmund K. Kerut, M.D., F.A.C.C., F.A.S.E.‡§ ∗Department of Cardiopulmonary Science, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana; †Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana; ‡Heart Clinic of Louisiana, Marrero, Louisiana; and §Division of Cardiolog...

INTRODUCTION Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) is a major clinical issue for pregnant women. The purpose of this study was to evaluate color Doppler indices of the proximal and distal parts of the middle cerebral artery (MCA) of the fetus. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, 350 pregnant patients, with gestation age of 32-40 who were suspected to have intrauterine growth restriction, ...

The European Study Group on diastolic heart failure requires objective evidence of abnormal left ventricular diastolic function to establish the diagnosis of diastolic heart failure, which is common in older people. Reference values for Doppler indices of transmitral flow, used to assess left ventricular diastolic function, have not been reported for people 70 years and over in Europe. The aim ...

This study investigated whether functional transcranial Doppler ultrasound (fTCD) is a suitable tool for studying hemispheric lateralization of language in patients with pre-perinatal left hemisphere (LH) lesions and right hemiparesis. Eighteen left-hemisphere-damaged children and young adults and 18 healthy controls were assessed by fTCD and fMRI to evaluate hemispheric activation during two l...

Figure 1. Spectral analysis and the Doppler display. The fast Fourier transform (FFT) separates the Doppler signal into its component Doppler-shift frequencies and determines the amplitude at each frequency. Most ultrasound machines calculate Doppler-shifted frequencies over 5 msec increments and convert this to velocity information. These velocities are then displayed in a bin whose brightness...

The aim of present study was to assess fetomaternal blood flows in normal and abnormal pregnancies using color Doppler indices. Subjects were divided into two groups as: Group A of 25 subjects of normal pregnancy as controls and group B of 25 subjects of pregnancy induced hypertension. All the subjects were lying in the age-group of 25-35 years and having 28 to 34 weeks of gestation; the patien...

We re-analyze the effect on the spectral tail of a gravity wave propagating in a shearing background. The contribution to the spectrum of horizontal wind perturbations for low vertical wavenumbers comes from the Doppler shifting with a -1 slope and for high wavenumbers from the leakage effect with slopes ranging between -4 to -2. If leakage is not present, it becomes necessary to consider the t...

BACKGROUND It is now well known that timing of right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) spectral Doppler signals change with increasing pulmonary hypertension severity. We devised a study to determine whether visual assessment of these RVOT Doppler signals can be useful identifying the severity of pulmonary hypertension. METHODS Visual inspection of pulsed RVOT Doppler signals from 120 consecut...

The authors implied that the abnormal uterine artery Doppler velocimetry is one of the risk markers for preeclampsia in the second or third trimester and that its abnormality is practically defined at 22–24 weeks as bilateral notching with mean resistance index (RI) > 0.55 (i.e., > 50th centile), unilateral notching with mean RI > 0.65 (> 90th centile), or no notching with mean RI > 0.70 (> 95t...