Importance of right heart catheterization in advanced heart failure management [PDF]
Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2022 Patients with chronic congestive heart failure belong to a population with reduced quality of life, poor functional class, and increased risk of mortality and morbidity.
John M. Cochran +2 more
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Quantification of pulmonary arterial pressure with 4D flow cardiac MRI velocity mapping in patients with suspected pulmonary hypertension: Comparison with right heart catheterization. [PDF]
PLoS ONEObjectives4D flow MRI is becoming a promising tool to assess pulmonary hypertension which remains a progressive fatal disease. The aim of this study was to compare the quantification of pulmonary arterial pressure derived from 4D flow MRI with right ...
Charlotte Dantoing +5 more
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Assessment of 4D flow MRI for quantification of left-to-right shunt in pediatric patients with ventricular septal defect: comparison with right heart catheterization [PDF]
Frontiers in Cardiovascular MedicineObjectivesThe percentage of shunt fraction significantly impacts the management of patients with congenital shunts, influencing strategic choices such as surgical or interventional procedures.
Seyed Mohammad Zamani-Aliabadi +9 more
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Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease, 2022 Objective: In patients with advanced heart failure, the intravascular optical coherence tomography (OCT) of subsegmental pulmonary artery measurements is correlated with right heart catheterization parameters. Our aim was to study the prognostic value of
Jorge Martínez-Solano +18 more
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Body Habitus Considerations During Right Heart Catheterization
CJC Open, 2021 Background: Obese and overweight body habitus are common among patients undergoing right heart catheterization for suspected pulmonary hypertension, but previous studies have described only patients with severe obesity.
Natasha R. Girdharry, BSc +7 more
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Research in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2022 Introduction: The prognostic significance of filling pressures and the relationship between left and right heart filling pressures have been well characterized in patients with heart failure.
Sepideh Jafari Naeini +8 more
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Advances in nutritional status of patients with connective tissue-associated pulmonary hypertension [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2021 Connective Tissue Disease (CTD) is an autoimmune disease involving connective tissues, including sjogren syndrome (pSS), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), systemic sclerosis (SSc), mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), etc.
Jinyan Jiang, ling Li Jin, Chengjie
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Right heart catheterization for pulmonary hypertension during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic
Pulmonary Circulation, 2020 Right heart catheterization is an essential diagnostic modality in the evaluation of pulmonary hypertension. The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has resulted in deferral of elective procedures including right heart catheterization.
Kanza N. Qaiser +2 more
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Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives, 2021 Background Chest radiographs can identify important abnormalities in patients undergoing diagnostic evaluation for cardiovascular diseases. Cardiomegaly often reflects cardiac chamber dilation, or cardiac muscle hypertrophy, or both conditions.
Benjamin Daines +8 more
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Non-Invasive Assessment of Pulmonary Vasculopathy
Hearts, 2021 Right heart catheterization remains necessary for the diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension and, therefore, for the prognostic evaluation of patients with chronic heart failure.
Ines Ponz +12 more
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