Pulmonary Effective Arterial Elastance as a Measure of Right Ventricular Afterload and Its Prognostic Value in Pulmonary Hypertension Due to Left Heart Disease [Original Articles]

Conclusions:
Pulmonary Ea and pulmonary arterial compliance more consistently predicted mortality than pulmonary vascular resistance or transpulmonary gradient across a spectrum of left heart disease with pulmonary hypertension, including patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, and pulmonary hypertension with a normal pulmonary vascular resistance.

Source: Circulation: Heart Failure - April 11, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Tampakakis, E., Shah, S. J., Borlaug, B. A., Leary, P. J., Patel, H. H., Miller, W. L., Kelemen, B. W., Houston, B. A., Kolb, T. M., Damico, R., Mathai, S. C., Kasper, E. K., Hassoun, P. M., Kass, D. A., Tedford, R. J. Tags: Hemodynamics, Heart Failure, Pulmonary Hypertension Original Articles Source Type: research