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Prognostic value of right ventricular echocardiographic measures in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction.

Ingrid Josefine LundorffMorten SengeløvSune PedersenDaniel ModinNiels Eske BruunThomas Fritz-HansenTor Biering-SørensenPeter Godsk Jørgensen
Published in: Journal of clinical ultrasound : JCU (2021)
RV GLS and FWS were associated with mortality in HFrEF patients after multivariable adjustment independent of TAPSE. TAPSE, however, remained as the strongest prognosticator in women. More research is needed to identify whether speckle tracking could be superior to conventional RV measures in identifying HFrEF patients with poor outcome.
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