Echocardiography for defining the right ventricular contractile reserve in healthy subjects

Conclusions: These results provide age- and sex-related limits of normal RV contractile reserve as assessed by stress echocardiographic PASP, TAPSE, S and TAPSE/PASP. Right ventricular contractile reserve, however measured, correlates with exercise capacity.

Source: European Respiratory Journal - November 7, 2016 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: D'Alto, M., Pavelescu, A., Romeo, E., Argiento, P., Di Marco, G. M., Correra, A., Mattera Iacono, A., Russo, M. G., Naeije, R. Tags: 4.3 Pulmonary Circulation and Pulmonary Vascular Diseases Source Type: research