Quantitative Right Ventricular Function in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: A Quest for a More Reliable Metric

Aiden Abidov; Franz Rischard

doi:10.1111/echo.13151

Quantitative Right Ventricular Function in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: A Quest for a More Reliable Metric

Echocardiography. 2016 Feb;33(2):174-6. doi: 10.1111/echo.13151. Epub 2015 Dec 29.

Authors

Aiden Abidov¹, Franz Rischard²

Affiliations

¹ Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, the University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, Arizona.
² Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy Medicine, Department of Medicine, the University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, Arizona.

No abstract available

Keywords: apical longitudinal rotation; longitudinal strain; pulmonary hypertension; right ventricular function; speckle tracking; tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion.

Publication types

Editorial
Comment

MeSH terms

Humans
Hypertension, Pulmonary*
Ventricular Dysfunction, Right
Ventricular Function, Right*

Grants and funding

U01 HL125208/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States