Right ventricular free-wall longitudinal speckle tracking strain in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension under specific treatment.

Hatice S KemalMeral KayikciogluHakan KultursayOzcan VuranSanem NalbantgilNesrin MogulkocLevent Can

Published in: Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) (2017)

Assessment of RV free-wall strain is a feasible, easy-to-perform method and may be used as a predictor of RHF, clinical deterioration, and mortality in patients already under PAH-specific treatment.

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