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Left ventricular blood flow patterns in normal subjects: a quantitative analysis by three-dimensional magnetic resonance velocity mapping.
OBJECTIVES: Magnetic resonance velocity mapping was used to investigate the hypothesis of a vortex motion within the left ventricle interacting with mitral valve motion and inflow velocity.
BACKGROUND: In vitro flow visualization studies have suggested the presence of a large anterior vortex inside the left ventricle during mitral inflow. However, to our knowledge the occurrence of this phenomenon has not been demonstrated in the human left ventricle.
METHODS: Magnetic resonance velocity mapping was performed in 26 healthy volunteers using a flow-adjusted gradient sequence for three-dimensional flow velocity acquisition in the long-axis plane of the left ventricle. By computer processing, the flow vectors in the left ventricle were visualized and animated dynamically.
RESULTS: The early diastolic mitral inflow was apically directed, and a large counterclockwise anterior vortex was created within the left ventricle shortly after the onset of the mid-diastolic semiclosure of the anterior mitral leaflet. During mid-diastolic diastasis, mitral inflow ceased until the flow accelerated again at atrial systole. The final closure of the mitral valve was preceded by a smaller vortex seen at the tips of the mitral leaflets. At systolic ejection, all flow vectors were directed toward the left ventricular outflow tract. The anterior vortex had a radius of 1.62 +/- 0.24 cm (mean +/- SD), and the average angular velocity (i.e., the rotation of an element about the center of the vortex within the central core) was 30.08 +/- 9.98 radians/s. The maximal kinetic energy of the anterior vortex was 4.3 x 10(-4) +/- 7.1 x 10(-5) J.
CONCLUSIONS: The hypothesis of a diastolic vortex formation in the human left ventricle was confirmed, and its close temporal relation to the motion of the anterior mitral leaflet was demonstrated.
BACKGROUND: In vitro flow visualization studies have suggested the presence of a large anterior vortex inside the left ventricle during mitral inflow. However, to our knowledge the occurrence of this phenomenon has not been demonstrated in the human left ventricle.
METHODS: Magnetic resonance velocity mapping was performed in 26 healthy volunteers using a flow-adjusted gradient sequence for three-dimensional flow velocity acquisition in the long-axis plane of the left ventricle. By computer processing, the flow vectors in the left ventricle were visualized and animated dynamically.
RESULTS: The early diastolic mitral inflow was apically directed, and a large counterclockwise anterior vortex was created within the left ventricle shortly after the onset of the mid-diastolic semiclosure of the anterior mitral leaflet. During mid-diastolic diastasis, mitral inflow ceased until the flow accelerated again at atrial systole. The final closure of the mitral valve was preceded by a smaller vortex seen at the tips of the mitral leaflets. At systolic ejection, all flow vectors were directed toward the left ventricular outflow tract. The anterior vortex had a radius of 1.62 +/- 0.24 cm (mean +/- SD), and the average angular velocity (i.e., the rotation of an element about the center of the vortex within the central core) was 30.08 +/- 9.98 radians/s. The maximal kinetic energy of the anterior vortex was 4.3 x 10(-4) +/- 7.1 x 10(-5) J.
CONCLUSIONS: The hypothesis of a diastolic vortex formation in the human left ventricle was confirmed, and its close temporal relation to the motion of the anterior mitral leaflet was demonstrated.
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