Transesophageal Doppler Measurement of Renal Arterial Blood Flow Velocities and Indices in Children

• Published in: Anesthesia and analgesia Vol. 114; no. 6; pp. 1277 - 1284
• Main Authors: ZABALA, Luis, ULLAH, Sana, PRODHAN, Parthak, PIERCE, Carol D'ann, GAUTAM, Nischal K, SCHMITZ, Michael L, SACHDEVA, Ritu, CRAYCHEE, Judith A, HARRISON, Dale, KILLEBREW, Pamela, BORNEMEIER, Renee A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hagerstown, MD Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 01.06.2012
• Subjects: Adolescent; Anesthesia; Anesthesia. Intensive care medicine. Transfusions. Cell therapy and gene therapy; Arkansas; Biological and medical sciences; Blood Flow Velocity; Cardiac Catheterization - instrumentation; Child; Child, Preschool; Echocardiography, Doppler; Echocardiography, Transesophageal; Feasibility Studies; Female; Heart Septal Defects, Atrial - diagnostic imaging; Heart Septal Defects, Atrial - therapy; Humans; Infant; Male; Medical sciences; Predictive Value of Tests; Prospective Studies; Pulsatile Flow; Regional Blood Flow; Renal Artery - diagnostic imaging; Renal Circulation; Septal Occluder Device; Vascular Resistance; Human; Arterial blood; Anesthesia; Flow velocity; Child; Blood flow

Doppler-derived renal blood flow indices have been used to assess renal pathologies. However, transesophageal ultrasonography (TEE) has not been previously used to assess these renal variables in pediatric patients. In this study, we (a) assessed whether TEE allows adequate visualization of the rena...