title: Echocardiographic assessment of right heart hemodynamic parameters.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, Scottsdale, Arizona 85259, USA.
authors.forename: Kwan S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Amr E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Abbas
authors.forename: Bijoy K
authors.initials: BK
authors.lastname: Khandheria
authors.forename: Steven J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Lester
mesh_terms: D001783:Blood Flow Velocity; D001794:Blood Pressure; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D013318:Stroke Volume; D018497:Ventricular Dysfunction, Right / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D016278:Ventricular Function, Right