[Non-invasive determination of the enddiastolic volume of the left ventricle. A comparative angiocardiographic, two-dimensional echocardiographic, computer tomographic and radionuclide ventriculographic study].

60 patients underwent left ventricular angiography (CV) and/or two-dimensional echocardiography (2DE) and/or multiple-gated equilibrium angiography (MUGA) and/or computer-tomography (CT) for determination of the left ventricular end-diastolic volume. Estimation of the enddiastolic volume from the various measurements showed significant correlations: CV/2DE: y equal 0.839 x +6.10, r equal 0.93, SEE equal 34.2 ml; CV/CT: y equal 0.762 x +30.30, r equal 0.82, SEE equal 20.8 ml; CV/MUGA: y equal 0.992 x +20.53, r equal 0.97, SEE equal 31.4 ml; 2DE/CT: y equal 1.167 x +19.58, r equal 0.93, SEE equal 38.4 ml; 2DE/MUGA: y equal 1.068 x +37,79, r equal 0.90, SEE equal 52.1 ml. Our study demonstrates that noninvasive techniques for measurement of the enddiastolic volume give results comparable to those obtained by cardiac catheterization. In addition, it is of interest that the noninvasive techniques examined show good agreement with each other.