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- Title
What Echocardiography Can Reliably Tell Us About Our Pulmonary Hypertension Patients.
- Authors
Vedage, Natasha A.; Vaidya, Anjali
- Abstract
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a complex, multi-organ system disease that is broadly defined by an elevation in pulmonary artery pressures. There are key biologic differences in the pathophysiology among the different PH subgroups that warrant a targeted approach to clinical care of these patients. The complex geometry of and wide array of clinical tools to assess the right heart in PH add another layer of complexity in patient care. Echocardiography can be used as a powerful tool to discriminate among the subgroups of PH, a critical first step in evaluating a new case of PH. In this article, we will explore novel approaches using echocardiography that go beyond simply estimating pulmonary pressures and provide a readily accessible means of adding diagnostic and prognostic accuracy in the clinical setting.
- Subjects
PULMONARY hypertension; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; PULMONARY artery
- Publication
Advances in Pulmonary Hypertension, 2019, Vol 18, Issue 4, p110
- ISSN
1933-088X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.21693/1933-088X-18.4.110