Low-Dose Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography for the Early Detection of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in Selected Patients with Systemic Sclerosis Whose Resting Echocardiography Is Non-Diagnostic for Pulmonary Hypertension.
Loukianos S RallidisKonstantina PapangelopoulouGeorgios MakavosChristos VarounisAnastasia AnthiStylianos E OrfanosPublished in: Journal of clinical medicine (2021)
Low-dose DSE has a satisfactory diagnostic accuracy for the early detection of PAH in highly selected SSc patients whose baseline echocardiographic measurements for PH lie in the gray zone.
Keyphrases
- pulmonary hypertension
- pulmonary arterial hypertension
- low dose
- systemic sclerosis
- pulmonary artery
- end stage renal disease
- interstitial lung disease
- left ventricular
- ejection fraction
- high dose
- chronic kidney disease
- newly diagnosed
- computed tomography
- peritoneal dialysis
- prognostic factors
- heart rate
- rheumatoid arthritis
- atrial fibrillation
- coronary artery
- idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
- left atrial
- blood pressure
- heat stress