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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1] Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Seyedmahdi Pahlavani, M.D. [2]
Overview
Echocardiography is helpful to diagnose pulmonary hypertension in patients with long standing chronic bronchitis.
Echocardiography
Patients with chronic bronchitis may develop pulmonary hypertension due to long standing disease and hypoxemia. The hypoxemia causes vascular remodeling eventually leading to right sided heart failure or cor pulmonale although, the gold standard for diagnosis of cor pulmonale is right heart cathaterization. If the echocardiography findings are normal you can rule out the pulmonary hypertension.
- Chronic bronchitis may lead to Left ventricular hypertrophy[1].
- LV diastolic dysfunction is another consequence of COPD[2][3].
References
- ↑ Kohama A, Tanouchi J, Hori M, Kitabatake A, Kamada T (1990). "Pathologic involvement of the left ventricle in chronic cor pulmonale". Chest. 98 (4): 794–800. PMID 2145135.
- ↑ Schena M, Clini E, Errera D, Quadri A (1996). "Echo-Doppler evaluation of left ventricular impairment in chronic cor pulmonale". Chest. 109 (6): 1446–51. PMID 8769491.
- ↑ Tutar E, Kaya A, Güleç S, Ertaş F, Erol C, Ozdemir O, Oral D (1999). "Echocardiographic evaluation of left ventricular diastolic function in chronic cor pulmonale". Am. J. Cardiol. 83 (9): 1414–7, A9. PMID 10235106.