Jacob Pugsley

Publications (2)1.06 Total impact

• Article: Mitral annular nonplanarity: correlation between annular height/commissural width ratio and the nonplanarity angle.

  Haider J Warraich, Bilal Chaudary, Andrew Maslow, Peter J Panzica, Jacob Pugsley, Feroze Mahmood
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  ABSTRACT: To compare two methods of mitral annular nonplanarity: the mathematically calculated annular height-to-commissural width ratio (AHCWR) and the echocardiographically derived nonplanarity angle. Prospective. Tertiary care university hospital. Three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography. Patients undergoing mitral valve surgery. Using 3-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography, volumetric datasets were acquired from 22 patients undergoing mitral valve surgery. The intraoperative nonplanarity angle was calculated with Mitral Valve Assessment software (Tomtec GmbH, Munich, Germany). Furthermore, the datasets acquired during 3-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography were exported to Matlab software (MathWorks, Natick, MA), which was used to calculate the AHCWR. The nonplanarity angle was seen to correlate favorably with the AHCWR (r = 0.70). A favorable correlation was found between the nonplanarity angle and the AHCWR. This suggests that the nonplanarity angle can be used to assess mitral annular nonplanarity in a clinically feasible fashion.
  Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia 11/2011; 26(2):186-90. · 1.06 Impact Factor
• Article: Cardiac output monitoring: is there a gold standard and how do the newer technologies compare?

  Jacob Pugsley, Adam B Lerner
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  ABSTRACT: As a principal determinant of oxygen delivery and of blood pressure, cardiac output (CO) represents an important hemodynamic variable. Its accurate measurement, therefore, is important to the clinician caring for critically ill patients in a variety of care environments. Though the first clinical measurement of CO occurred 70 years ago, it was the introduction of the pulmonary artery catheter (PAC) with thermodilution-based determination of CO in the 1970s that set the stage for practical and widespread clinical measurement of CO. Although the usefulness and accuracy of this technique have justified its consideration as a "practical" gold standard in CO measurement, its drawbacks have driven the search for newer, less invasive measurement techniques. The last decade has seen the introduction of several such devices into the clinical arena. This article will serve to give a brief review of the history of CO measurement, to provide a discussion of the measurement of accuracy as it relates to CO measurement, and to discuss some of the newer methods and devices for CO measurement and how they have fared against a "practical" gold standard.
  Seminars in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia 11/2010; 14(4):274-82.