Diastolic forward blood flow in the pulmonary arteries of normal children: a Doppler echocardiographic study
Pulmonary arterial flow was examined in 60 normal children with a mean age of 8.5 +/- 3.7 years (range 3.3 to 17.9 years) and mean body surface area of 0.95 +/- 0.3 m2 (range Pivot Tube 0.6 m2 to 1.7 m2) by pulsed Doppler echocardiography.Two distinct antegrade waveforms during diastole were detected.The peak velocities of early diastolic forward f