Clinical value of echocardiography in evaluating hemodynamics and right ventricular function in patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension after balloon pulmonary angioplasty.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients with inoperable chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) are eligible for balloon pulmonary angioplasty (BPA). However, the short-term effects of BPA on pulmonary hemodynamics and right ventricular (RV) function in patients with CTEPH have not been elucidated. In the current study, echocardiography was conducted to explore the short-term effects of BPA on inoperable CTEPH patients.

Methods

A total of 30 inoperable CTEPH patients who underwent echocardiography before and after BPA were enrolled to the present retrospective study. Right heart catheterization (RHC) parameters, echocardiography function parameters, and echocardiography structural parameters of patients were evaluated at baseline and within 24 hours after BPA and the results were

SUBMITTER: Chen J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9186241 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature