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- Title
Usefulness of right ventricular isovolumic relaxation time in predicting systolic pulmonary artery pressure.
- Authors
Bréchot, Nicolas; Gambotti, Laetitia; Lafitte, Stéphane; Roudaut, Raymond
- Abstract
Aims: Systolic pulmonary artery pressure (sPAP) cannot always be assessed from Doppler-detected tricuspid regurgitation (TR), especially when sPAP is normal. The right ventricular isovolumic relaxation time (rIVRT) is related to sPAP, and assessment of rIVRT by tissular Doppler imaging (rIVRT′) has recently been proposed as an alternative method for estimating sPAP in patients with pulmonary artery hypertension (PAH). We evaluated here its usefulness in everyday clinical practice.
- Subjects
AORTIC valve insufficiency; DOPPLER echocardiography; MEDICAL imaging systems; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; OBSTRUCTIVE lung diseases patients
- Publication
European Journal of Echocardiography, 2008, Vol 9, Issue 4, p547
- ISSN
1525-2167
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/ejechocard/jen121