Echocardiographic assessment of pulmonary hypertension: a guideline protocol from the British Society of Echocardiography

Augustine, Daniel; D. Coates-Bradshaw, Lindsay; Willis, James; Harkness, Allan; Ring, Liam; Grapsa, Julia; Coghlan, Gerry; Kaye, Nikki; Oxborough, David; Robinson, Shaun; Sandoval, Julie; S. Rana, Bushra; Siva, Anjana; Nihoyannopoulos, Petros; Howard, Luke; Fox, Kevin; Bhattacharyya, Sanjeev; Sharma, Vishal; P. Steeds, Richard; Mathew, Thomas

doi:10.1530/erp-17-0071

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Echocardiographic assessment of pulmonary hypertension: a guideline protocol from the British Society of Echocardiography

Published in Echo Research and Practice • Jul 16, 2018

Authors:

Daniel Augustine

Lindsay D. Coates-Bradshaw

James Willis

Abstract

Pulmonary hypertension is defined as a mean arterial pressure of ≥25 mmHg as confirmed on right heart catheterisation. Traditionally, the pulmonary arterial systolic pressure has been estimated on echo by utilising the simplified Bernoulli equation from the peak tricuspid regurgitant velocity and ad...

Subject

Medicine

Pulmonary hypertension

Cardiology

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