Hemodynamic Assessment: Right Heart Catheterization, Pulmonary Hypertension, Left-to-Right Shunt, Constriction, and Restriction

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Abstract

Hemodynamic assessment is a critical component of cardiac catheterization. Although advances in cardiovascular imaging today offer many tools for noninvasive hemodynamic assessment, invasive hemodynamic assessment in the cardiac catheterization laboratory remains essential for accurate diagnosis and measurement, particularly when noninvasive imaging data are of suboptimal quality or indeterminate interpretation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPractical Manual of Interventional Cardiology
Subtitle of host publicationSecond Edition
PublisherSpringer International Publishing
Pages143-153
Number of pages11
ISBN (Electronic)9783030685386
ISBN (Print)9783030685379
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2021

Keywords

  • Constrictive pericarditis
  • Interventricular dependence
  • Left-to-right shunt
  • Pulmonary hypertension
  • Pulmonary vascular resistance
  • Restrictive cardiomyopathy
  • Right heart catheterization
  • Vasoreactivity testing

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