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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Magn Reson Imaging. 2011 Jan;33(1):225–231. doi: 10.1002/jmri.22428

Table 1.

Average Arterial and Venous Transit Times, Blood Volumes, and Flow Rates for PAH Patients and control subjects

Transit Time (s) Blood Volumes (ml) Flow (ml/s)
Arterial Venous Arterial Venous PVF
PAH 2.7 ± 1.0 2.2 ± 0.9 165 ± 92.0 152 ± 133 61.6 ± 39.2
Controls 1.4 ± 0.5 1.6 ± 0.6 95.0 ± 47.1 117 ± 62.0 70.2 ± 19.2
P-value <0.0004 <0.05 <0.04 0.54 0.27

PAH = Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

PVF=Pulmonary Valve Flow

MVF=Mitral Valve Flow