Echocardiographic assessment of pulmonary hypertension: a guideline protocol from the British Society of Echocardiography
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Journal Article
Abstract
Pulmonary hypertension is defined as a mean arterial pressure of ≥25 mmHg as confirmed on right heart catheterisation. Traditionally, the pulmonary arterial systolic pressure has been estimated on echo by utilising the simplified Bernoulli equation from the peak tricuspid regurgitant velocity and adding this to an estimate of right atrial pressure. Previous studies have demonstrated a correlation between this estimate of pulmonary arterial systolic pressure and that obtained from invasive measurement across a cohort of patients. However, for an individual patient significant overestimation and underestimation can occur and the levels of agreement between the two is poor. Recent guidance has suggested that echocardiographic assessment of pulmonary hypertension should be limited to determining the probability of pulmonary hypertension being present rather than estimating the pulmonary artery pressure. In those patients in whom the presence of pulmonary hypertension requires confirmation, this should be done with right heart catheterisation when indicated. This guideline protocol from the British Society of Echocardiography aims to outline a practical approach to assessing the probability of pulmonary hypertension using echocardiography and should be used in conjunction with the previously published minimum dataset for a standard transthoracic echocardiogram.
Date Issued
2018-08-01
Date Acceptance
2018-05-11
Citation
Echo Research and Practice, 2018, 5 (3), pp.G11-G24
ISSN
2055-0464
Publisher
BioScientifica
Start Page
G11
End Page
G24
Journal / Book Title
Echo Research and Practice
Volume
5
Issue
3
Copyright Statement
© 2018 The British Society of Echocardiography
Published by Bioscientifica Ltd. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
Published by Bioscientifica Ltd. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
Identifier
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30012832
PII: 5/3/G11
Subjects
echocardiography
guideline
pulmonary hypertension
Publication Status
Published
Coverage Spatial
England
Date Publish Online
2018-05-11