American Journal of Cardiology
Volume 94, Issue 8 , Pages 1096-1099, 15 October 2004

Quantitative assessment of right ventricular geometric remodeling in pulmonary hypertension secondary to left-sided heart disease using real-time three-dimensional echocardiography

Department of Cardiology, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Japan

Received 13 April 2004; received in revised form 28 June 2004; accepted 28 June 2004.

We assessed right ventricular (RV) geometric remodeling quantitatively in patients with chronic pulmonary hypertension (PH) secondary to left-sided heart disease using real-time 3-dimensional echocardiography by comparing segmental and total volumes to that in normal subjects. The comparison result revealed that RV geometric remodeling in the PH group mainly occurred at the basal, mid-basal, and mid-segments. Total RV end-diastolic and end-systolic volumes in the PH group were significantly larger than that in normal subjects.

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PII: S0002-9149(04)01087-2

doi:10.1016/j.amjcard.2004.06.079

American Journal of Cardiology
Volume 94, Issue 8 , Pages 1096-1099, 15 October 2004

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