The study covered in this summary was published in medRxiv.org as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. Right ventricular (RV) dilation or dysfunction in patients hospitalized with acute ...

Pulmonary embolism (PE) remains a major cause of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality worldwide. It occurs when thrombotic material—most often ...

Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a common and potentially life-threatening condition with presentations ranging from mild symptoms to circulatory collapse. Early and accurate risk stratification is ...

In a study of more than 8000 consecutive ambulatory and hospitalized patients with a broad spectrum of cardiopulmonary disease who underwent right heart catheterization in a Boston hospital, obesity ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Cumulative exposure to increased BP from early adulthood on may influence right ventricular dysfunction in ...

Right ventricular (RV) dysfunction has previously been linked to symptoms and mortality in pulmonary hypertension (PH), as well as in other conditions, and RV function plays an important role in ...

AI echocardiography using multimodal right ventricular assessment predicted mortality in pulmonary hypertension. Learn more.

"This study showed that RV function, including RV strain, decreases over time despite preserved LV ejection fraction, and is associated with poor cardiovascular outcomes. RV function may be more ...

A recent study showed that children undergoing bilateral lung transplantation for severe pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) had a full recovery of their right ventricular (RV) systolic function at ...