Why the study?
Does monitoring both pulmonary vascular resistance and compliance better explain changes in cardiac index during treatment in patients with pulmonary hypertension?
Population
62 patients undergoing two right-heart catheterizations
Design
Cohort
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Pulmonary arterial compliance and resistance remain inversely related during pulmonary hypertension treatment, and monitoring both provides a better assessment of hemodynamic improvement than resistance alone.
Does monitoring both pulmonary vascular resistance and compliance better explain changes in cardiac index during treatment in patients with pulmonary hypertension?
Pulmonary arterial compliance and resistance remain inversely related during pulmonary hypertension treatment, and monitoring both provides a better assessment of hemodynamic improvement than resistance alone.
Lankhaar et al. (2008) studied this question.
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