Validation of a cutoff value on echo Doppler analysis to replace right heart catheterization during pulmonary hypertension evaluation in heart transplant candidates.
Bacal
F
F
Cardiology Department, Heart Failure Unit, Heart Institute (InCor), University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil. fbacal@uol.com.br
de Freitas
A F
AF
Moreira
L F
LF
Fiorelli
A I
AI
Mangini
S
S
Abuhab
A
A
de Lima Oliveira
J
J
Santos
R H B
RH
Stolf
N A G
NA
Bocchi
E A
EA
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001794:Blood Pressure; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D002648:Child; D000075202:Contraindications; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000379:methods; D019160:Endosonography / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D016027:Heart Transplantation / Q000502:physiology*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000503:physiopathology; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013318:Stroke Volume / Q000502:physiology*; D013599:Systole; D014262:Tricuspid Valve Insufficiency / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014655:Vascular Resistance