Anomalous connection of the inferior vena cava to the left atrium diagnosed using three-dimensional echocardiography.

摘要

There are a number of reasons why haemodynamic evaluations went out of favour. Chief amongst these are the choice of unrepresentative haemodynamic variables and the misplaced belief that measurements at rest can be representative of actual cardiac function irrespective of reserve capacity. Such a misconception probably stemmed from the misleadingly title of the 1981 paper by Fran-ciosa,3 which also failed to highlight that in their own study, exercise haemodynamics actually correlated very well with exercise capacity.