RV contractility and exercise-induced pulmonary hypertension in chronic mountain sickness: A stress echocardiographic and tissue doppler imaging study

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1287-1297

  Pratali, Lorenza ^a   Allemann, Yves ^b   Rimoldi, Stefano F ^b   Faita, Francesco ^a   Hutter, Damian ^b   Rexhaj, Emrush ^b   Brenner, Roman ^c   Bailey, Damian M ^d   Sartori, Claudio ^e   Salmon, Carlos Salinas ^f   Villena, Mercedes ^f   Scherrer, Urs ^b,g   Picano, Eugenio ^a   Sicari, Rosa ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c CANTONAL HOSPITAL ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

^e Botnar Center for Clinical Research   (Switzerland)

^f Instituto Boliviano de Biologia de Altura   (Bolivia)

^g UNIVERSIDAD DE TARAPACÁ   (Chile)

Author keywords

chronic mountain sickness; exercise echocardiography; right ventricular function; systolic pulmonary hypertension

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ALTITUDE DISEASE; BOLIVIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTOSIS; EXERCISE; HEART DILATATION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE ENDSYSTOLIC VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE CONTRACTILITY; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; LUNG PRESSURE; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; REST; REVIEW; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CHRONIC MOUNTAIN SICKNESS; CMS; E; E/E′; EXERCISE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; E′; HA; HB; HEMOGLOBIN; HIGH ALTITUDE; LEFT VENTRICULAR; LV; PAP; PEAK EARLY DIASTOLIC TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING VELOCITY OF THE MITRAL ANNULUS; PEAK VELOCITY OF EARLY MITRAL INFLOW; PULMONARY ARTERIAL PRESSURE; RATIO OF EARLY (E′) AND LATE (A′) DIASTOLIC TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING TRICUSPID PEAK ANNULAR VELOCITIES; RATIO OF PEAK VELOCITY OF EARLY MITRAL INFLOW TO MITRAL ANNULAR EARLY DIASTOLIC PEAK VELOCITY; RIGHT VENTRICULAR; RIGHT VENTRICULAR END-SYSTOLIC PRESSURE-AREA RELATIONSHIP; RIGHT VENTRICULAR FUNCTION; RV; RV-ESPAR; RV-S′; SYSTOLIC PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; TDI; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING PEAK SYSTOLIC VELOCITY OF THE LATERAL TRICUSPID VALVE ANNULUS; TRIC E′/A′;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; BOLIVIA; CHRONIC DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULMONARY CIRCULATION; SWITZERLAND; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 84890298878     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: 18767591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2013.08.007     Document Type: Article

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