ArticlePulmonary circulation2022
Comparison between thermodilution and Fick methods for resting and exercise-induced cardiac output measurement in patients with chronic dyspnea.
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- Post lung-transplant predictive value of thermodilution vs estimated Fick cardiac output measurement.JHLT open · 2025Article
- The Impact of Cardiac Output Methods on the Classification of Pulmonary Hypertension.Pulmonary circulation · 2025Article
- How to Reliably Measure Stroke Volume Index in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: A Comparison of Thermodilution, Direct and Indirect Fick, and Cardiac MRI.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Differences in Direct Fick and Thermodilution Measurements of Cardiac Output: Impact on Pulmonary Hypertension Classification.Pulmonary circulation · 2025Article
- Time to Calm the Fick Down? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Thermodilution Compared to Direct Fick in Tricuspid Regurgitation.CJC open · 2024Review
- Cardiopulmonary exercise test to detect cardiac dysfunction from pulmonary vascular disease.Respiratory research · 2024Review
- The Influence of Methods for Cardiac Output Determination on the Diagnosis of Precapillary Pulmonary Hypertension: A Mathematical Model.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Comparison between thermodilution and Fick methods for resting and exercise-induced cardiac output measurement in patients with chronic dyspnea.Pulmonary circulation · 2022Article
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Abstract
Studies comparing thermodilution (TD) and the direct Fick method (dFM) for cardiac output (CO) measurement are rare. We compared CO measurements between TD (2-5 cold water injections), the dFM, and indirect Fick method (iFM) at rest and during exercise, and assessed the effect of averaging different numbers of TD measurements during exercise. This retrospective study included 300 patients (52.3% women, mean age 66 ± 11 years) having pulmonary hypertension (76.0%) or unexplained dyspnea. Invasive hemodynamic and gas exchange parameters were measured at rest (supine;
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