The Value of Bedside Echocardiogram in the Setting of Acute and Chronic Pulmonary Embolism

Authors

David W. Lee, Division of Cardiology, University of North Carolina, 160 Dental Circle, CB #7075, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Kavitha Gopalratnam, Division of Pulmonology, Yale New Haven Health, Bridgeport Hospital, 267 Grant Street, Bridgeport, CT 06610, USA.Follow
Hubert James Ford, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of North Carolina, 130 Mason Farm Road, CB #7020, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Lisa J. Rose-Jones, Division of Cardiology, University of North Carolina, 160 Dental Circle, CB #7075, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. Electronic address: Lisa_Rose-jones@med.unc.edu.

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Clinics in chest medicine

Abstract

Echocardiography is valuable in the evaluation and risk stratification of patients with acute and chronic pulmonary embolism (PE). Patients with acute PE who have echocardiographic evidence of right ventricular dilatation and/or right ventricular dysfunction have a worse prognosis. A minority of patients with acute PE can develop chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. Patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension often have echocardiographic evidence of elevated pulmonary arterial pressures, right ventricular hypertrophy, right ventricular dysfunction, and/or left ventricular impaired relaxation.

First Page

549

Last Page

560

DOI

10.1016/j.ccm.2018.04.008

Publication Date

9-1-2018

Recommended Citation

Lee, David W.; Gopalratnam, Kavitha; Ford, Hubert James; and Rose-Jones, Lisa J., "The Value of Bedside Echocardiogram in the Setting of Acute and Chronic Pulmonary Embolism" (2018). Critical Care. 81.
https://scholar.bridgeporthospital.org/critical_care/81

Identifier

30122179 (pubmed); 10.1016/j.ccm.2018.04.008 (doi); S0272-5231(18)30055-8 (pii)