Clinical Characteristics of Patients Undergoing Right Heart Catheterizations in Community Hospitals.

ABSTRACT: Background Recognition of precapillary pulmonary hypertension (PH) has significant implications for patient management. However, the low a priori chance to find this rare condition in community hospitals may create a barrier against performing a right heart catheterization (RHC). This could result in misclassification of PH and delayed diagnosis/treatment of precapillary PH. Therefore, we investigated patient characteristics and echocardiographic parameters associated with the decision whether to perform an RHC in patients with incident PH in 12 Dutch community hospitals. Methods and Results In total, 275 patients were included from the OPTICS (Optimizing PH Diagnostic Network in Community Hospitals) registry, a prospective cohort study with patients with incident PH; 157 patients were dia

SUBMITTER: Jansen SMA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9496424 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature