Assessment of Left Ventricular Dissipative Energy Loss by Vector Flow Mapping in Patients With End-Stage Renal Disease

Conclusions—
Impaired blood flow efficiency was detected in patients with ESRD by using dissipative energy loss derived from vector flow mapping. The energy loss value could be a novel parameter for evaluating the ventricular workload of uremic hearts in terms of fluid mechanics.

Source: Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine - April 21, 2016 Category: Radiology Authors: Zhong, Y., Liu, Y., Wu, T., Song, H., Chen, Z., Zhu, W., Cai, Y., Zhang, W., Bai, W., Tang, H., Rao, L. Tags: Original Research Source Type: research