Why the study?
Can pulsed Doppler echocardiography accurately assess right ventricular diastolic function and detect pulmonary hypertension in patients with chronic obstructive lung disease?
Population
85 subjects: 35 chronic obstructive lung disease patients with pulmonary hypertension, 32 COLD patients…
Comparison
Pulsed Doppler echocardiography vs Control subjects and COLD patients without…
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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May support noninvasive PH detection by Doppler in COLD; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before practice change.
Can pulsed Doppler echocardiography accurately assess right ventricular diastolic function and detect pulmonary hypertension in patients with chronic obstructive lung disease?
Pulsed Doppler echocardiography is a useful noninvasive tool for evaluating right ventricular diastolic function and correlates with pulmonary artery pressure in patients with chronic obstructive lung disease.
Marangoni et al. (1992) studied this question.
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