Echocardiographic assessment of pulmonary hypertension: a guideline protocol from the British Society of Echocardiography

Echocardiographic assessment of pulmonary hypertension: a guideline protocol from the British Society of Echocardiography

Pulmonary hypertension is defined as a mean arterial pressure of ≥25 mmHg as confirmed on right heart catheterisation. Traditionally, the pulmonary arterial systolic pressure has been estimated on echo by utilising the simplified Bernoulli equation from the peak tricuspid regurgitant velocity and ad...

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Main Authors: Daniel X Augustine , Lindsay D Coates-Bradshaw, James Willis, Allan Harkness, Liam Ring, Julia Grapsa, Gerry Coghlan, Nikki Kaye, David Oxborough, Shaun Robinson, Julie Sandoval, Bushra S Rana, Anjana Siva, Petros Nihoyannopoulos, Luke S Howard, Kevin Fox, Sanjeev Bhattacharyya, Vishal Sharma, Richard P Steeds, Thomas Mathew
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Bioscientifica 2018-07-01
Series:Echo Research and Practice
Subjects:
pulmonary hypertension
echocardiography
guideline
Online Access:http://www.echorespract.com/content/5/3/G11.full

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http://www.echorespract.com/content/5/3/G11.full

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