METHOD FOR OPTIMISING OF DIAGNOSTICS OF PULMONARY ARTERY THROMBOEMBOLIA Russian patent published in 2008 - IPC A61B8/02 

FIELD: medicine, cardiology.

SUBSTANCE: patient under examination undergoes echocardioscopic examination with measuring right and left atrium; these parameters are expressed in form of their ratio by formula K= RA/LA, where K is coefficient in units, RA is size of right atrium in cm, LA is size of left atrium in cm. If K index is 1.2 (units), diagnosis of thromboembolia of small and medium branches of pulmonary artery is predicted. If value of index K is more than 1.2 (units) diagnosis of thromboembolia of large branches of pulmonary artery is predicted. On the basis of obtained results conclusion about possibility of diagnosis of pulmonary artery thromboembolia of small, medium and large branches is made after performing standard echocardioscopy.

EFFECT: increase in diagnostic importance of method and simplification of result interpretation.

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