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Mean Pulmonary Artery Pressure

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RVSP:
Mean Pulmonary Artery Pressure

How to calculate Mean Pulmonary Artery Pressure.

  1. Obtain a CWD of the long axis view of the pulmonary valve. A pulmonary regurgitant jet is required to make this calculation. Once the flow profile of the CWD of the PR jet is obtained, the maximum velocity (Vmax) which occurs at start-diastole will represent the pulmonary artery valve gradient at the start of diastole.