Open AccessNoninvasive model including right ventricular speckle tracking for the evaluation of pulmonary hypertension
Author(s) -
Yossra Mahran,
Robert Schueler,
Marcel Weber,
Carmen Pizarro,
Georg Nickenig,
Dirk Skowasch,
Christoph Hammerstingl
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
world journal of cardiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1949-8462
DOI - 10.4330/wjc.v8.i8.472
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , ejection fraction , pulmonary artery , ventricle , pulmonary hypertension , diastole , pulmonary wedge pressure , blood pressure , heart failure
To find parameters from transthorathic echocardiography (TTE) including speckle-tracking (ST) analysis of the right ventricle (RV) to identify precapillary pulmonary hypertension (PH).