Right ventricular strain in pulmonary hypertension: flavor du jour or enduring prognostic index?

Affiliations

¹ Research Department, Cardiac Imaging, St. Francis Hospital, Roslyn, NY; and Department of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University, Roslyn, NY.

Editorial

Nathaniel Reichek. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2013 Sep.

. 2013 Sep;6(5):609-11.

doi: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.113.000936.

¹ Research Department, Cardiac Imaging, St. Francis Hospital, Roslyn, NY; and Department of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University, Roslyn, NY.

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Keywords: echocardiography; editorials; pulmonary hypertension; right ventricle; right ventricular strain.

Comment on

Outcome prediction by quantitative right ventricular function assessment in 575 subjects evaluated for pulmonary hypertension.
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