Grading right ventricular dysfunction in left ventricular disease using echocardiography: a proof of concept using a novel multiparameter strategy.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Grading right ventricular dysfunction (RVD) in patients with left ventricular (LV) disease has earned little attention. In the present study, we established an echocardiographic RVD score and investigated how increments of the score correspond to RVD at right heart catheterization.

Methods and results

We included 95 patients with LV disease consecutively referred for heart transplant or heart failure work-up with catheterization and echocardiography within 48 h. The RVD score (5 points) included well-known characteristics of the development from compensated to decompensated right ventricular (RV) function: pulmonary hypertension, reduced RV strain, RV area dilatation, moderate/severe tricuspid regurgitation, and increased right atrial pressure (RAP) by echocardiography.

SUBMITTER: Bech-Hanssen O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8318504 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature