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An Improved Method for the Quantification of Left-to-Right Cardiac Shunts

University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, Iowa City, IA

Correspondence: For reprints contact: Mark T. Madsen, PhD, Dept. of Radiology, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, Iowa city, IA 52242.

ABSTRACT

We have investigated a technique for quantifying QP/QS in left-to-right cardiac shunts. In this method, the gamma variate, which is fitted to the first-pass portion of the lung curve, is used to generate a curve, which simulates the response of a normal lung curve with systemic recirculation. The difference between this curve and the observed lung curve is then used to calculate QP/OS. This method was evaluated on a set of simulated lung time-activity curves with precisely known QP/QS values on a group of 11 patients with no clinical suspicion of cardiac shunt and on a group of 30 patients referred for cardiac shunt studies. The QP/QS in each of these studies was determined by three individuals using both the Maltz-Treves method and the new method. This method yielded QP/QS values that were more accurate on the simulated lung data and had less interobserver variation on all the studies than those obtained from the Maltz-Treves method.

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