Angiographic Determination of Splanchnic Blood Flow

Abstract

A new videodensitometric method of measuring blood flow in the splanchnic arteries as a fraction of the cardiac output was compared to electromagnetic flow readings in dogs. A previous investigation regarding the accuracy of the method in vitro was extended to prove that the videodensitometric technique was highly accurate also in vivo. The simplicity of the technique suggests that the videodensitometric method could be used to estimate blood flow in splanchnic arteries during routine angiography.