Association of Mild Echocardiographic Pulmonary Hypertension With Mortality and Right Ventricular Function.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Current guidelines recommend evaluation for echocardiographically estimated right ventricular systolic pressure (RVSP) greater than 40 mm Hg; however, this threshold does not capture all patients at risk.

Objectives

To determine if mild echocardiographic pulmonary hypertension (ePH) is associated with reduced right ventricular (RV) function and increased risk of mortality.

Design, setting, and participants

In this cohort study, electronic health record data of patients who were referred for echocardiography at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, from March 1997 to February 2014 and had recorded estimates of RVSP values were studied. Data were analyzed from February 2017 to May 2019.

Exposures

Mild ePH was defined as an RVSP va

SUBMITTER: Huston JH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6751783 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature