The Wake of a Large Vortex Is Associated with Intraventricular Filling Delay in Impaired Left Ventricles with a Pseudonormalized Transmitral Flow Pattern

Abstract

Contrast echocardiography identified uniform flow characteristics with blood in the filling flow front moving in well-developed vortices and resulting in a left ventricular filling delay in the impaired left ventricle in spite of an increased early transmitral flow velocity.