A novel echocardiographic right ventricular dysfunction score can identify hemodynamic severity profiles in left ventricular dysfunction.

Purpose: Recognition of congestion and hypoperfusion in patients with chronic left ventricular dysfunction (LVD) has therapeutic and prognostic implications. In the present study we hypothesized that a multiparameter echocardiographic grading of right ventricular dysfunction (RVD) can facilitate the characterization of hemodynamic profiles.

Methods: Consecutive patients (n = 105, age 53 ± 14 years, males 77%, LV ejection fraction 28 ± 11%) referred for heart transplant or heart failure work-up, with catheterization and echocardiography within 48 h, were reviewed retrospectively.

Grading right ventricular dysfunction in left ventricular disease using echocardiography: a proof of concept using a novel multiparameter strategy.

Aims: Grading right ventricular dysfunction (RVD) in patients with left ventricular (LV) disease has earned little attention. In the present study, we established an echocardiographic RVD score and investigated how increments of the score correspond to RVD at right heart catheterization.

Methods And Results: We included 95 patients with LV disease consecutively referred for heart transplant or heart failure work-up with catheterization and echocardiography within 48 h.

Levosimendan or milrinone for right ventricular inotropic treatment?-A secondary analysis of a randomized trial.

Background: The aim of the present study was to compare the effects of milrinone and levosimendan on right ventricular (RV) inotropy and lusitropy in patients after aortic valve replacement (AVR) for aortic stenosis, a procedure in which an abnormal postoperative RV function may be seen.

Methods: In a prospective, blinded trial, 31 patients were randomized to receive either milrinone (0.4 and 0.