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The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 106, 636-642, Copyright © 1993 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association

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Validity of cardiac output measurement by the thermodilution method in the presence of acute tricuspid regurgitation

LE Boerboom, TE Kinney, GN Olinger and RG Hoffmann
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 53226.

Evaluation of patients with acute tricuspid insufficiency may include assessment of cardiac output by the thermodilution method. The accuracy of estimates of thermodilution-derived cardiac output in the presence of tricuspid insufficiency has been questioned. This study was designed to determine the validity of the thermodilution technique in a canine model of acute reversible tricuspid insufficiency. Cardiac output as measured by thermodilution and electromagnetic flowmeter was compared at two grades of regurgitation. The relationship between these two methods (thermodilution/electromagnetic) changed significantly from a regression slope of 1.01 +/- 0.18 (mean +/- standard deviation) during control conditions to a slope of 0.86 +/- 0.23 (p < 0.02) during severe regurgitation. No significant change was observed between control and mild regurgitation or between the initial control value and a control measurement repeated after tricuspid insufficiency was reversed at the termination of the study. This study shows that in a canine model of severe acute tricuspid regurgitation the thermodilution method underestimates cardiac output by an amount that is proportional to the level of cardiac output and to the grade of regurgitation.

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