Accuracy and Diagnostic
Performance of Doppler Echocardiography to Estimate Mean Pulmonary
Artery Pressure in Heart Failure
Alva Björkman BSc (1), Lars H Lund MD, PhD (2), Ulrika Ljung Faxén MD,
PhD (2,3) Per Lindquist PhD (4), Ashwin Venkateshvaran PhD (2)
(1) Department of Clinical Physiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm,
Sweden
(2) Department of Medicine, Cardiology Unit, Karolinska Institutet,
Stockholm, Sweden
(3) Perioperative Medicine and Intensive Care, Karolinska University
Hospital, Stockholm Sweden
(4) Department of Clinical Physiology, Surgical & Perioperative
sciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
Running title: Echocardiographic estimates of Pulmonary
Hypertension
Key words: Right heart catheterization, tricuspid regurgitation
peak velocity, pulmonary artery acceleration time, heart failure
Article Type: Original Research
Word Count: 2421 words