Doppler Echocardiography Inaccurately Estimates Right Ventricular Pressure in Children with Elevated Right Heart Pressure

BACKGROUND: Doppler echocardiography (DE) is widely used as a surrogate for right heart catheterization (RHC), the gold standard, to assess and monitor elevated right heart pressure in children. However, its accuracy has not been prospectively validated in children. The objective of this study was t...

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Main Authors: Groh, Georgeann K., Levy, Philip T., Holland, Mark R., Murphy, Joshua J., Sekarski, Timothy J., Myers, Craig L., Hartman, Diana P., Roiger, Rebecca D., Singh, Gautam K.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2013
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3946813/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24183542
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.echo.2013.09.016
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