Scientific article

English

Demonstration of inferior vena cava compression by probe pressure during subxiphoid echocardiography

ContributorsSiegenthaler, Nils; Giraud, Raphaël

; Mueller, Hajo

; Bendjelid, Karim

Published inJournal of clinical ultrasound, vol. 40, no. 1, p. 44-47

Publication date2012

Abstract

We sought to compare the inferior vena cava diameter measured by transthoracic echocardiography and by transesophageal echocardiography in human and animals. Transthoracic echocardiography yielded lower inferior vena cava diameter values than transesophageal echocardiography. Adult and pediatric intensivists should pay attention to the risk of false measurement of the inferior vena cava anterior-posterior diameter that may be due to compression of the inferior vena cava by the sonographic probe when the subxiphoid view is used.

Keywords

Animals
Constriction
Echocardiography/instrumentation/methods
Echocardiography, Transesophageal/instrumentation/methods
Humans
Organ Size
Pressure
Swine
Vena Cava, Inferior/anatomy & histology/ultrasonography

Affiliation entities

Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département d'anesthésiologie, pharmacologie, soins intensifs et urgences

Research groups

Groupe de recherche en hémodynamique (913)

Citation (ISO format)

SIEGENTHALER, Nils et al. Demonstration of inferior vena cava compression by probe pressure during subxiphoid echocardiography. In: Journal of clinical ultrasound, 2012, vol. 40, n° 1, p. 44–47. doi: 10.1002/jcu.20870

Article (Published version)

Identifiers

PID : unige:26516
DOI : 10.1002/jcu.20870
PMID : 21953016

Journal ISSN0091-2751

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