Why the study?
Right ventricular dysfunction is a major complication in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with prognostic implications, but is rarely considered in routine clinical analysis.
Do advanced echocardiographic techniques detect differences in right ventricular function between patients with stable COPD and matched controls?
Do advanced echocardiographic techniques detect differences in right ventricular function between patients with stable COPD and matched controls?
Advanced echocardiographic techniques such as tissue Doppler and speckle tracking are being evaluated for assessing right ventricular dysfunction in stable COPD patients.
May identify subclinical RV dysfunction in stable COPD; hypothesis-generating, needs larger validation before clinical use.
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Botelho et al. (2022) studied this question.
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