Right ventricular strain to systolic pulmonary artery pressure ratio in response to treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension

Julian Pott; Dora Csengeri; Jonna Ostermann; Hans Klose; Christoph Sinning; Lars Harbaum

doi:10.1183/23120541.00985-2023

Right ventricular strain to systolic pulmonary artery pressure ratio in response to treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension

ERJ Open Res. 2024 Jul 8;10(4):00985-2023. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00985-2023. eCollection 2024 Jul.

Authors

Julian Pott¹, Dora Csengeri², Jonna Ostermann¹, Hans Klose¹, Christoph Sinning², Lars Harbaum¹

Affiliations

¹ Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Medicine II, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
² Department of General and Interventional Cardiology, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Hamburg/Kiel/Luebeck, Hamburg, Germany.

Abstract

The RVFWLS/PASP ratio, a novel surrogate for ventriculoarterial coupling, showed sensitivity to afterload-lowering treatment and the magnitude of change informed on long-term outcomes in PAH https://bit.ly/4cRtREC.