Key result
A simple echocardiographic prediction rule achieved an AUC of 0.921 for identifying pulmonary vascular disease in pulmonary hypertension patients.
Why the study?
Does a simple echocardiographic prediction rule accurately identify pulmonary hypertension attributed to pulmonary vascular disease in patients referred for suspected pulmonary hypertension?
Population
108 patients evaluated at a referral pulmonary hypertension clinic who underwent right heart catheterization…
Design
Cohort, Measurements were made by experienced echocardiographers blinded to…
Authors
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May aid noninvasive PH subtyping; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before clinical use.
Does a simple echocardiographic prediction rule accurately identify pulmonary hypertension attributed to pulmonary vascular disease in patients referred for suspected pulmonary hypertension?
A simple 4-point echocardiographic scoring system accurately predicts pulmonary hypertension hemodynamics, effectively differentiating pulmonary vascular disease from pulmonary venous hypertension.
Opotowsky et al. (2012) studied this question. A simple echocardiographic prediction rule achieved an AUC of 0.921 for identifying pulmonary vascular disease in pulmonary hypertension patients.
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