Ischaemic versus non-ischaemic: how does heart failure aetiology affect pulmonary arterial capacitance and pulmonary artery pulsatility index in end-stage heart failure?

Zubeyde Bayram Cem Dogan Süleyman Çağan Efe Büşra Güvendi Şengör Ali Karagöz Rezzan Deniz Acar Samet Uysal Ravza Betul Akbas Fatih Yilmaz Ozgur Y Akbal Hacer Ceren Tokgoz Mehmet Kaan Kirali Cihangir Kaymaz Nihal Ozdemir

Published in: Acta cardiologica (2021)

ICMP was associated with lower PAC and higher PAPi. These results indicated that an ischaemic aetiology is associated with higher RV afterload and better RV function in the end-stage heart failure.

Keyphrases

heart failure
pulmonary artery
pulmonary hypertension
mycobacterium tuberculosis
coronary artery
pulmonary arterial hypertension
left ventricular
acute heart failure