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Is Doppler echocardiography a reliable method for assessing systolic pulmonary artery pressure compared to right heart catheterization in patients with cardiac diseases?
Is Doppler echocardiography a reliable method for assessing systolic pulmonary artery pressure compared to right heart catheterization in patients with cardiac diseases?
Doppler echocardiography is a reliable noninvasive alternative to right heart catheterization for assessing systolic pulmonary artery pressure and diagnosing pulmonary hypertension in patients with cardiac diseases.
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Supports noninvasive sPAP assessment in cardiac disease; leaves open prospective validation versus catheterization.
In this study, Doppler echocardiography proved to be a reliable method for the assessment of sPAP, being well suited to establish the noninvasive diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension in patients with cardiac diseases.
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Greiner et al. (2014) studied this question.
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