Novel Echocardiographic Algorithm for Right Ventricular Mass Quantification: Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance and Clinical Prognosis Validation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Right ventricular hypertrophy (RVH) provides a key remodeling index alterable by pulmonary hypertension. Although echocardiography commonly integrates linear wall thickness and chamber dimensions to quantify left ventricular remodeling, the utility of an equivalent right ventricular (RV)-based approach is unknown.

Methods

This was a retrospective analysis of 200 patients undergoing transthoracic echocardiography and cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) within 30 days (median = 3 days; interquartile range, 15 days), stratified by echocardiography-quantified pulmonary artery systolic pressure (<35, 35 to <55, 55 to <75, or ≥75 mm Hg). Echocardiographic assessment included RV linear dimensions in parasternal long-axis and apical four-chamber views and wall thicknesses in

SUBMITTER: Kochav J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8349849 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature