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SUBMITTER: Li Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6078723 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Li Yidan Y Wang Yidan Y Yang Yuanhua Y Liu Mingxi M Meng Xiangli X Shi Yanping Y Zhu Weiwei W Lu Xiuzhang X
Medicine 20180701 30
This study aimed to determine the ability of tricuspid annular displacement measured by 2-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography (STE) to predict right ventricular (RV) dysfunction in pulmonary hypertension (PH) patients. Here, we present a new method for assessing RV function that also employs STE and is based on measurement of tricuspid annular displacement.A total of 225 patients were divided into 2 groups according to the pulmonary artery systolic blood pressure (PASP), estimated by e ...[more]