RV Dyssynchrony by Speckle Tracking Strain in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Will This Outcome Variable Take Root?

JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2015 Jun;8(6):653-5. doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2015.04.003.

Authors

Nelson B Schiller¹, Siddharth Singh²

Affiliations

¹ Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California. Electronic address: schiller@medicine.ucsf.edu.
² Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California.

PMID: 26068283
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2015.04.003

No abstract available

Keywords: clinical worsening; pulmonary arterial hypertension; right ventricular dyssynchrony; right ventricular function.

Publication types

Editorial
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Comment

MeSH terms

Appetite Depressants / adverse effects*
Echocardiography / methods*
Female
Humans
Hypertension, Pulmonary / physiopathology*
Male
Recovery of Function / physiology*
Ventricular Dysfunction, Right / physiopathology*
Ventricular Function, Right*
Ventricular Remodeling*

Substances

Appetite Depressants