Pulmonary hypertension is defined as a resting mean pulmonary artery pressure of 25 mm
Hg or above. This review deals with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), a type of …

Background: Right ventricular (RV) adaptation to acute and chronic pulmonary hypertensive
syndromes is a significant determinant of short-and long-term outcomes. Although …

Guidelines for the Echocardiographic Assessment of the Right Heart in Adults: A Report
from the American Society of Echocardiography - Journal of the American Society of …

Background Systemic effects of COPD are incompletely reflected by established prognostic
assessments. We determined the prognostic value of objectively measured physical activity …

Thus, the task of writing Guidelines or Expert Consensus documents covers not only the
integration of the most recent research, but also the creation of educational tools and …

Summary...... 1592 7 Evidence-Based Treatment Algorithm...... 1592 7.1 General
Measures...... 1593 7.2 Background Therapy...... 1593 7.3 Calcium Channel Blockers …

The recommendations listed in this document are, whenever possible, evidence-based.
Unlike other ACC/AHA practice guidelines, there is not a large body of peer-reviewed …

Right ventricular (RV) size and function assessed by multimodality imaging are associated
with outcomes in a variety of cardiovascular diseases. Understanding RV anatomy and …

LV. 5, 9 The deep muscle fibers of the RV are longitudinally aligned base to apex. In contrast
to the RV, the LV contains obliquely oriented myofibers superficially, longitudinally oriented …

Background—Although right ventricular (RV) dysfunction is a major determinant of outcome
in patients with pulmonary hypertension (PH), the optimal measure of RV function is poorly …