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Circulation, Vol 64, 146-152, Copyright © 1981 by American Heart Association

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Radionuclide assessment of peripheral intravascular capacity: a technique to measure intravascular volume changes in the capacitance circulation in man

DL Rutlen, FJ Wackers and BL Zaret

Changes in the capacitance vasculature influence venous return and cardiac performance, so an understanding of the effects of pathophysiologic states on the human capacitance vasculature is necessary to understand integrated cardiovascular function in man. Techniques available to assess the capacitance vasculature in man, however, have limitations. We performed radionuclide imaging of the calf or forearm in 51 patients whose erythrocytes had been labeled in vivo with technetium-99m, basing our approach on the principle that counts from the radiolabeled intravascular space are proportional to blood volume. Two-minute or 15 second count acquisitions were obtained from the calf in 42 patients. Counts obtained at rest demonstrated little variation. With veno-occlusion at 15 and 30 mm Hg, counts increased 8 +/- 1% (+/- SEM) (p less than 0.001) and 28 +/- 2% (p less than 0.001), respectively. After 0.4 mg of sublingual nitroglycerin, counts increased 9 +/- 1% (p less than 0.001). With leg elevation, counts decreased 34 +/- 4% (p less than 0.001). Response patterns were similar with 2-minute and 15-second acquisitions. In nine patients who underwent forearm imaging (2-minute acquisitions), counts increased 14 +/- 2% (p less than 0.001) and 26 +/- 4% (p less than 0.001) at 15- and 30-mm Hg veno-occlusion and 15 +/- 3% (p less than 0.001) after nitroglycerin. Volume displacements, recorded simultaneously with a fluid-filled plethysmograph about the contralateral forearm, correlated linearly in all nine patients. Thus, gamma camera imaging of the radiolabeled peripheral intravascular space provides a quantitative and reliable assessment of peripheral vascular capacity in man. The technique could be used in conjunction with gated cardiac imaging in order to assess the interactions of peripheral vascular capacity and ventricular performance.

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