Visualization of Inferior Vena Cava Reflux during ECG-gated Krypton-81 m Study

摘要

Backward bloodflow in the inferior vena cava and in hepatic veins has been demonstrated in patients with tricuspid insufficiency using contrast echography. A similar finding in a 42-year-old woman with primary pulmonary hypertension and tricuspid insufficiency, during continuous infusion of Kr-81m in an antecubital vein is presented