Subtle right ventricular dysfunction in asymptomatic chronic heavy cigarette smokers: a speckle tracking case-control study.

Mohammad Iqbal JanhangeerGhada YoussefWeal El NaggarDalia El Remisy

Published in: The Egyptian heart journal : (EHJ) : official bulletin of the Egyptian Society of Cardiology (2021)

Chronic heavy cigarette smoking can adversely affect the right ventricular function, a finding that can be easily missed by conventional echocardiography and can be better detected by the right ventricular speckle tracking.

Keyphrases

smoking cessation
computed tomography
pulmonary hypertension
atrial fibrillation