The Cardiac Caval Index: Improving Noninvasive Assessment of Cardiac Preload.
Leonardo ErminiStefano SeddonePiero PolicastroLuca MesinPaolo PasqueroSilvestro RoattaPublished in: Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (2021)
Long-term IVC monitoring by automated edge-tracking allowed us to evidence that 1) respiratory and averaged cardiac pulsatility components are uncorrelated and thus carry different information and 2) the new index aCCI, exhibiting the lowest CoV while maintaining good sensitivity to blood volume changes, may overcome the poor reliability of CI and RCI.