Right Heart Strain on Echo in PAH: Understanding the Right Heart Beyond Pressure

In this video for healthcare professionals, key opinion leaders discuss right heart strain on echocardiograms and diagnostic criteria that should be considered when suspecting PAH as they explore how the 2022 ESC/ERS Treatment Guidelines can be incorporated in U.S. clinical practice.

The focus of this video from the Advancing PAH Care video series is around how hemodynamic measures, right heart parameters and echocardiography findings impact PAH treatment success as well as how echocardiographic findings have been incorporated into the updated ESC ERS guidelines.

Speakers:
Dr. Paul Forfia, Professor of Medicine and Co-Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Right Heart Failure and CTEPH Program at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia

Dr. Anjali Vaidya, Professor of Medicine and cardiologist at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, and Co-Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Right Heart Failure and CTEPH Program.