Comparability between Computed Tomography Morphological Vascular Parameters and Echocardiography for the Assessment of Pulmonary Hypertension in Patients with Severe Aortic Valve Stenosis-Results of a Multi-Center Study.
Elke BoxhammerBernhard ScharingerReinhard KaufmannHerwig BrandtnerLukas SchmidbauerJürgen KammlerJörg KellermairChristian ReiterKaveh AkbariMatthias HammererHermann BlessbergerClemens SteinwenderKlaus HerganUta C HoppeMichael LichtenauerStefan HechtPublished in: Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) (2022)
Features related to pulmonary hypertension are fast and easily measurable on pre-TAVR CT and offer great potential regarding non-invasive detection of pulmonary hypertension in patients with severe AS and can support the echocardiographic diagnosis. In this study, the diameter of the main pulmonary artery with the additionally determined ratios were superior to the values of the right and left pulmonary artery. Additional indexing to body surface area and thus further individualization of the parameters with respect to height and weight can further improve the diagnostic quality.
Keyphrases
- pulmonary hypertension
- pulmonary artery
- aortic valve
- pulmonary arterial hypertension
- computed tomography
- coronary artery
- transcatheter aortic valve replacement
- body mass index
- aortic stenosis
- transcatheter aortic valve implantation
- magnetic resonance imaging
- image quality
- contrast enhanced
- left ventricular
- physical activity
- positron emission tomography
- early onset
- heart failure
- climate change
- drug induced
- magnetic resonance
- quality improvement
- coronary artery disease
- weight loss
- optical coherence tomography
- body weight