Is Doppler echocardiography a reliable method for assessing systolic pulmonary artery pressure compared to right heart catheterization in patients with cardiac diseases?
Doppler echocardiography is a reliable noninvasive alternative to right heart catheterization for assessing systolic pulmonary artery pressure and diagnosing pulmonary hypertension in patients with cardiac diseases.
In this study, Doppler echocardiography proved to be a reliable method for the assessment of sPAP, being well suited to establish the noninvasive diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension in patients with cardiac diseases.
Greiner et al. (Fri,) studied this question.
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