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Apical traction: a novel visual echocardiographic parameter to predict survival in patients with pulmonary hypertension.
Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Imaging
February 2016
Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Medical Imaging Research Center, Catholic University Leuven and University Hospital Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
Aims: In some pulmonary hypertension (PH) patients, we noted a motion pattern where the right ventricular (RV) apex is pulled towards to left ventricle (LV) during systole, caused by traction from the LV ('apical traction', AT). Herein, we characterize patients with AT to investigate its prognostic significance.
Methods And Results: Echocardiograms of 62 pre-capillary PH patients (42 females, age 61 ± 15 years) were retrospectively analysed.