Does echocardiography reliably estimate pulmonary hypertension and distinguish between pre- and postcapillary forms?
Echocardiography is a feasible and reliable tool for estimating pulmonary hypertension and distinguishing between pre- and postcapillary forms.
Echocardiography allows feasible and reliable estimation of PH and seems helpful to distinguish between pre-and postcapillary PH. Further prospective studies on patients with different manifestations of PH must validate the predictive value of echocardiography in this clinical setting.
Hammerstingl et al. (Thu,) studied this question.