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Does echocardiography reliably estimate pulmonary hypertension and distinguish between pre- and postcapillary forms?
Does echocardiography reliably estimate pulmonary hypertension and distinguish between pre- and postcapillary forms?
Echocardiography is a feasible and reliable tool for estimating pulmonary hypertension and distinguishing between pre- and postcapillary forms.
May support echocardiography for PH estimation and pre/postcapillary distinction; leaves open prospective validation against catheterization.
Echocardiography allows feasible and reliable estimation of PH and seems helpful to distinguish between pre-and postcapillary PH. Further prospective studies on patients with different manifestations of PH must validate the predictive value of echocardiography in this clinical setting.
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Hammerstingl et al. (2012) studied this question.
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