Club 35 EACVI web spotlight: comments on right ventricle assessment in the new echocardiography recommendations

In last month, an intriguing discussion has been raised by Dr Khayyal on the EACVI Club 35 LinkedIn platform ‘Young Network of Cardiovascular Imaging’ about the new ASE/EACVI recommendations for chamber quantification,1 particularly concerning the evaluation of the right ventricle, the range values for defining it as normal and the severity grading of dilatation.In summary, in the new guidelines the RV basal diameter is normal up to 41 mm, mid-diameter up to 35 mm. Actually there is not a distinction in severity grades, so we could distinct only normal and abnormal RV. Conversely, in the 2005 guidelines,2 the …