Interventricular septal curvature as an additional echocardiographic parameter for evaluating chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension: a single-center retrospective study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Noninvasive estimation of the actual systolic pulmonary artery pressure measured via right-sided heart catheterization (sPAP_RHC) is vital for the management of pulmonary hypertension, including chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH). Evaluation related to the interventricular septum (IVS) is generally performed with only visual assessment and has been rarely assessed quantitatively in the field of echocardiography. Thus, this study aimed to investigate the utility of echocardiographic IVS curvature to estimate sPAP_RHC in patients with CTEPH.

Methods

Medical records of 72 patients with CTEPH were studied retrospectively. We estimated sPAP_RHC using echocardiographic IVS curvature (esPAP_curv) and left ventric

SUBMITTER: Matsumura A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8527655 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature