A Novel Doppler TRPG/AcT Index Improves Echocardiographic Diagnosis of Pulmonary Hypertension after Pulmonary Embolism.

Olga Dzikowska-DiduchKatarzyna KurnickaBarbara LichodziejewskaOlga ZdończykDominika DąbrowskaMarek F RoikSzymon PachoMaksymilian Bielecki Piotr Pruszczyk

Published in: Journal of clinical medicine (2022)

A Doppler index TRPG/AcT improves the assessment of symptomatic PE survivors. TRPG/AcT > 0.6 indicates a high probability of CTEPH or CTED, whereas TRPG/AcT < 0.6 allows for the safe exclusion of CTEPH + CTED in patients with a low echocardiographic probability of PH.

Keyphrases

pulmonary embolism
pulmonary hypertension
inferior vena cava
left ventricular
pulmonary artery
mitral valve
pulmonary arterial hypertension
blood flow
young adults
left atrial
ejection fraction
coronary artery
atrial fibrillation
clinical evaluation