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Echocardiographic assessment of right heart hemodynamic parameters.

Lee KS, Abbas AE, Khandheria BK, Lester SJ

Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, Scottsdale, Arizona 85259, USA.

Echocardiography is currently the primary clinical method for the noninvasive measurement of right heart hemodynamic parameters and is an indispensable tool for the initial assessment, diagnosis, longitudinal follow-up, and prognostication of patients with abnormal right heart function. This review will discuss the echocardiographic methods used to estimate right heart hemodynamic parameters.

Published 4 June 2007 in J Am Soc Echocardiogr, 20(6): 773-82.
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