Open AccessAssessment of RV Function in Patients of (COPD)
Author(s) -
Maumita Das,
Sumit Roy Tapadar,
Anil Baran Singha Mahapatra,
S. Chowdhury,
Soumik Basu
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of clinical and diagnostic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-782X
pISSN - 0973-709X
DOI - 10.7860/jcdr/2014/6440.4090
Subject(s) - medicine , vital capacity , cardiology , copd , ventricle , pulmonary function testing , lung function , lung , diffusing capacity
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) has considerable effects on cardiac functions primarily affecting the pulmonary vasculature and then right ventricle along with left ventricle. One of the important causes of increased morbidity and mortality associated with COPD is cor pulmonale. Echocardiography provides a rapid, non-invasive method to evaluate cardiac changes. Our aim was to evaluate RVfunction in COPD as per guidelines of American Society of Echocardiography with an aim to find a simpler way of predicting cardiac morbidity.