Right ventricular-pulmonary artery coupling for prognostication in acute pulmonary embolism.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Acute pulmonary embolism (PE) increases pulmonary pressure and impair right ventricular (RV) function. Echocardiographic investigation can quantify this mismatch as the tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion (TAPSE) to pulmonary arterial systolic pressure (PASP) ratio. The aim of the study was to investigate the prognostic capabilities of TAPSE/PASP ratio in patients with acute PE.

Methods and results

We utilized the Registro Informatizado Enfermedad TromboEmbolica registry to analyse consecutive haemodynamically stable PE patients. We used multi-variable logistic regression analyses to assess the association between the TAPSE/PASP ratio and 30-day all-cause mortality across the strata of European Society of Cardiology (ESC) risk categories. We included 4478 patient

SUBMITTER: Lyhne MD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11666307 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature