Virtual echocardiography screening tool to differentiate hemodynamic profiles in pulmonary hypertension.

ABSTRACT: This study validated a novel virtual echocardiography screening tool (VEST), which utilized routinely reported echocardiography parameters to predict hemodynamic profiles in pulmonary hypertension (PH) and identify PH due to pulmonary vascular disease (PH_PVD). Direct echocardiography imaging review has been shown to predict hemodynamic profiles in PH; however, routine use often overemphasizes Doppler-estimated pulmonary artery systolic pressure (PASP_DE), which lacks discriminatory power among hemodynamically varied PH subgroups. In patients with PH of varying subtypes at a tertiary referral center, reported echocardiographic findings needed for VEST, including left atrial size, E:e' and systolic interventricular septal flattening, were obtained. Receiver operating cha

SUBMITTER: Vaidya A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7504864 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul-Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature