The Right Heart International Network (RIGHT-NET): Rationale, Objectives, Methodology, and Clinical Implications

Heart Fail Clin. 2018 Jul;14(3):443-465. doi: 10.1016/j.hfc.2018.03.010.

Abstract

The Right Heart International Network is a multicenter international study aiming to prospectively collect exercise Doppler echocardiography tests of the right heart pulmonary circulation unit (RHPCU) in large cohorts of healthy subjects, elite athletes, and individuals at risk of or with overt pulmonary hypertension. It is going to provide standardization of exercise stress echocardiography of RHPCU and explore the full physiopathologic response.

Keywords: Exercise doppler echocardiography; Pulmonary circulation; Pulmonary hypertension; Right heart.

Publication types

  • Multicenter Study
  • Observational Study

MeSH terms

  • Echocardiography, Doppler / methods*
  • Echocardiography, Stress / methods*
  • Exercise / physiology
  • Female
  • Heart Ventricles / diagnostic imaging
  • Heart Ventricles / physiopathology
  • Humans
  • Hypertension, Pulmonary / diagnostic imaging
  • Hypertension, Pulmonary / physiopathology*
  • Male
  • Prospective Studies
  • Pulmonary Circulation / physiology*
  • Research Design
  • Ventricular Function, Right / physiology*