This review summarizes the use of conventional and advanced echocardiographic techniques, including 3D echocardiography and speckle tracking, for assessing right heart chambers in pulmonary hypertension.
May support advanced echo for right heart assessment in pulmonary hypertension; extends conventional methods but leaves open outcome validation.
Pulmonary hypertension is a debilitating disease with limited treatment options and prognosis. A significant part of right heart failure management is the accurate imaging of right heart chambers with the means of conventional echocardiography as well as advanced imaging. The purpose of this review was to explain the anatomy and physiology of the right heart chambers and subsequently to demonstrate all latest available echocardiographic indices specific for right heart. We also discuss three‐dimensional echocardiography and speckle tracking as advanced imaging modalities for right heart assessment.
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