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Editorial
. 2024 Apr 16;13(8):e034711.
doi: 10.1161/JAHA.124.034711. Epub 2024 Apr 3.

It's All About That Right Ventricle

Ambreen F Ali  1 , Rhonda Miyasaka  2 , Christine L Jellis  2
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Editorial

It's All About That Right Ventricle

Ambreen F Ali et al. J Am Heart Assoc. .
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Keywords: Editorials; pulmonary hypertension; right ventricle; uncoupling.

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Figure .. Right heart considerations for left‐sided interventions: it's more than the RVSP.
2D indicates 2‐dimensional; 3D, 3‐dimensional; CI, cardiac index; CT, computed tomography; Ea, pulmonary effective arterial elastance; EF, ejection fraction; FAC, fractional area change; IVC, inferior vena cava; mPAP, mean pulmonary artery pressure; MPI, myocardial performance index; MRI, magnetic resonance imaging; M‐TEER, mitral transcatheter edge‐to‐edge repair; PA; pulmonary artery; PAC, pulmonary arterial compliance; PAEDP, pulmonary artery end‐diastolic pressure; PAPi, pulmonary artery pulsatility index; PASP, pulmonary artery systolic pressure; PCWP, pulmonary capillary wedge pressure; PVR, pulmonary vascular resistance; PW Doppler S', pulsed‐wave Doppler systolic tissue velocity; RAP, right atrial pressure; RV, right ventricular; RVEDP, right ventricular end‐diastolic pressure; RVH, right ventricular hypertrophy; RVSP, right ventricular systolic pressure; SV, stroke volume; and TPG, transpulmonary gradient.
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