Why the study?
Does tissue Doppler-echocardiography identify right heart dysfunction in patients with moderate-to-severe COPD compared to healthy controls?
Population
56 participants, including 36 patients with moderate-to-severe chronic obstructive lung disease and 20…
Comparison
Tissue Doppler-echocardiography and lung… vs Healthy controls
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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May support echocardiographic right heart assessment in moderate-severe COPD; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation.
Does tissue Doppler-echocardiography identify right heart dysfunction in patients with moderate-to-severe COPD compared to healthy controls?
Tissue Doppler-echocardiography is a reliable method for detecting global longitudinal right heart dysfunction and moderate pre-capillary pulmonary hypertension in patients with COPD.
Bart et al. (2014) studied this question.
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