Long-term changes of resting and exercise right ventricular systolic performance in patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension following pulmonary thromboendarterectomy - A two-dimensional and three-dimensional echocardiographic study.
Farhad WaziriSøren MellemkjaerTor Skibsted ClemmensenVibeke Elisabeth HjortdalLars Bo IlkjaerSten Lyager NielsenSteen Hvitfeldt PoulsenPublished in: Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) (2019)
Improvement of RV geometry and systolic function, along with the reduction of systolic pulmonary pressure, can be expected following PEA in CTEPH patients during long-term follow-up. Improvement of RV myocardial contractility after PEA was only revealed at peak exercise over time. Importantly, physical exercise capacity was significantly increased and was found to be directly correlated with improvement of resting and exercise-induced RV-EF.
Keyphrases
- pulmonary hypertension
- left ventricular
- mycobacterium tuberculosis
- blood pressure
- heart failure
- pulmonary artery
- heart rate
- ejection fraction
- end stage renal disease
- pulmonary arterial hypertension
- newly diagnosed
- chronic kidney disease
- left atrial
- prognostic factors
- atrial fibrillation
- resistance training
- peritoneal dialysis
- single cell
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