Role of right ventricular reverse remodeling in risk assessment of pulmonary hypertension

Nowadays, noninvasive imaging plays an essential role in diagnosis, prognosis and management of pulmonary arterial hypertension. The Fifth World Symposium on Pulmonary Hypertension (PH) highlighted the importance of right heart failure in pulmonary hypertension. It is defined as “a complex clinical syndrome due to suboptimal delivery of blood or elevated systemic venous pressure at rest or exercise as a consequence of elevated right ventricular afterload”, taking into account physiological demands, and both systolic and diastolic function of the ventricle-arterial coupl ing.
Source: The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation - Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Source Type: research