{"id":237,"date":"2015-11-11t16:34:09","date_gmt":"2015-11-11t16:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/?page_id=237"},"modified":"2023-07-16t18:02:46","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16t17:02:46","slug":"cardiac-catheterisation-measurements","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/about-ph-2\/tests-you-might-have\/cardiac-catheterisation\/cardiac-catheterisation-measurements\/","title":{"rendered":"cardiac catheterisation measurements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>cardiac catheterisation is a procedure that is used to confirm a diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension (ph). several measurements can be taken using a cardiac catheter (a long, thin, flexible tube inserted into a vein).<\/p>\n<h3>measurements taken using a cardiac catheter<\/h3>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<th>measurement<\/th>\n<th>definition<\/th>\n<th>comment<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>mean pulmonary artery pressure (mpap)<\/td>\n<td>average blood pressure in the main\u00a0pulmonary arteries<\/td>\n<td>mpap above 25mmhg while a person is resting indicates ph<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>mean right atrial pressure (mrap)<\/td>\n<td>average blood pressure in the right atrium of the heart<\/td>\n<td>mrap above 10mmhg indicates the heart is beginning to find it difficult to pump blood efficiently<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (pcwp or \u2018wedge\u2019)<\/td>\n<td>estimation of the blood pressure on the left side of the heart (blood returning from the lungs to the heart)<\/td>\n<td>pcwp above 15mmhg indicates the heart is finding it hard to pump blood through the lungs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>cardiac output<\/td>\n<td>the amount of blood pumped through the heart in one minute<\/td>\n<td>ph causes reduced cardiac output<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>pulmonary vascular resistance (pvr)<\/td>\n<td>the resistance the heart must pump against to force blood through the lungs<\/td>\n<td>pvr is normally higher in people with ph<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>mixed venous oxygen saturation<\/td>\n<td>the amount of oxygen in the blood as it returns to the heart<\/td>\n<td>gives an idea of how much oxygen a persons&#8217; muscles and organs are extracting from the blood<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cardiac catheterisation is a procedure that is used to confirm a diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension (ph). several measurements can be taken using a cardiac catheter (a long, thin, flexible tube inserted into a vein). measurements taken using a cardiac catheter measurement definition comment mean pulmonary artery pressure (mpap) average blood pressure in the main\u00a0pulmonary arteries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":42,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-237","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/237","targethints":{"allow":["get"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27832,"href":"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/237\/revisions\/27832"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/\/www.aselpijama.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}