Key result
Multimodality imaging plays an essential role across the diagnosis, classification, and management of pulmonary hypertension.
This comprehensive review underscores the utility of multimodality imaging, particularly echocardiography, V/Q scanning, CT, and right heart catheterization, in the modern management of pulmonary hypertension.
Supports multimodality imaging in pulmonary hypertension care; leaves open prospective validation of optimal protocols.
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is characterized by elevated pulmonary arterial pressure caused by a broad spectrum of congenital and acquired disease processes, which are currently divided into five groups based on the 2013 WHO classification. Imaging plays an important role in the evaluation and management of PH, including diagnosis, establishing etiology, quantification, prognostication and assessment of response to therapy. Multiple imaging modalities are available, including radiographs, computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), nuclear medicine, echocardiography and invasive catheter angiography (ICA), each with their own advantages and disadvantages. In this article, we review the comprehensive role of imaging in the evaluation of PH.
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Goerne et al. (2018) conducted a review in Pulmonary hypertension. Imaging modalities was evaluated. Multiple imaging modalities play a comprehensive and essential role in the diagnosis, classification, etiologic evaluation, and management of pulmonary hypertension.
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