Assessing the Validity of Echocardiographic Criteria for Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction in Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension

Conclusion: Our study suggests E/average e ’ may be the only reliable tissue Doppler parameter of LV diastolic dysfunction in patients with PHT, and that septal e’ is paradoxically decreased in patients with PHT and normal left-sided filling pressures.Cardiology

Source: Cardiology - October 8, 2020 Category: Cardiology Source Type: research