Meta-analysis of echocardiographic quantification of left ventricular filling pressure.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

The clinical reliability of echocardiographic surrogate markers of left ventricular filling pressures (LVFPs) across different cardiovascular pathologies remains unanswered. The main objective was to evaluate the evidence of how effectively different echocardiographic indices estimate true LVFP.

Methods and results

Design: this is a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Data source

Scopus, PubMed and Embase. Eligibility criteria for selecting studies were those that used echocardiography to predict or estimate pulmonary capillary wedge pressure or left ventricular end-diastolic pressures. Twenty-seven studies met criteria. Only eight studies (30%) reported both correlation coefficient and bias between non-invasive and invasively measured LVFPs. The majority of stu

SUBMITTER: Jones R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7835555 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature