Assessment of right ventricular function in the research setting: knowledge gaps and pathways forward. An Official American Thoracic Society Research Statement

T Lahm, IS Douglas, SL Archer, HJ Bogaard… - American journal of …, 2018 - atsjournals.org
Background: Right ventricular (RV) adaptation to acute and chronic pulmonary hypertensive
syndromes is a significant determinant of short-and long-term outcomes. Although …

The latest in animal models of pulmonary hypertension and right ventricular failure

O Boucherat, V Agrawal, A Lawrie, S Bonnet - Circulation research, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) describes heterogeneous population of patients with a mean
pulmonary arterial pressure> 20 mm Hg. Rarely, PH presents as a primary disorder but is …

Markers of myocardial damage predict mortality in patients with aortic stenosis

S Kwak, RJ Everett, TA Treibel, S Yang… - Journal of the American …, 2021 - jacc.org
Background Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is increasingly used for risk
stratification in aortic stenosis (AS). However, the relative prognostic power of CMR markers …

Molecular mechanisms of pulmonary vascular remodeling in pulmonary arterial hypertension

JA Leopold, BA Maron - International journal of molecular sciences, 2016 - mdpi.com
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a devastating disease that is precipitated by
hypertrophic pulmonary vascular remodeling of distal arterioles to increase pulmonary artery …

Emerging concepts in the molecular basis of pulmonary arterial hypertension: part II: neurohormonal signaling contributes to the pulmonary vascular and right …

BA Maron, JA Leopold - Circulation, 2015 - Am Heart Assoc
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is defined foremost by a distinct pulmonary vascular
pathophenotype that occurs as a result of dysregulated vascular cell proliferation, intimal …

New directions in right ventricular assessment using 3-dimensional echocardiography

K Addetia, D Muraru, LP Badano, RM Lang - JAMA cardiology, 2019 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Before the introduction of 3-dimensional echocardiography, estimations of right
ventricular (RV) size and function by echocardiography were limited to regional …

The use of multimodality cardiovascular imaging to assess right ventricular size and function

E Surkova, D Muraru, S Iliceto, LP Badano - International journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Right ventricular (RV) size and function have been found to be important predictors of
cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in patients with various conditions. However, non …

Frailty trajectories in adult lung transplantation: a cohort study

A Venado, C McCulloch, JR Greenland, P Katz… - The Journal of Heart and …, 2019 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND Frailty is common in adults with advanced lung disease and is associated
with death before and after lung transplantation. We aimed to determine whether frailty …

Elucidating the clinical implications and pathophysiology of pulmonary hypertension in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: a call to action: a science advisory …

EL Brittain, T Thenappan, JH Huston, V Agrawal… - Circulation, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
This science advisory focuses on the need to better understand the epidemiology,
pathophysiology, and treatment of pulmonary hypertension in patients with heart failure with …

Intratracheal gene delivery of SERCA2a ameliorates chronic post-capillary pulmonary hypertension: a large animal model

J Aguero, K Ishikawa, L Hadri… - Journal of the American …, 2016 - jacc.org
Background: Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is characterized by pulmonary arterial
remodeling that results in increased pulmonary vascular resistance, right ventricular (RV) …