In addition to the outstanding resources from CoreIM linked to below, please review
- Elevated Pulmonary Pressure Noted on Echocardiogram: A Simplified Approach to Next Steps. Manreet K Kanwar 1, Ryan J Tedford 2, Thenappan Thenappan 3, Teresa De Marco 4, Myung Park 5, Vallerie McLaughlin 6. J Am Heart Assoc. 2021 Apr 6;10(7):e017684. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.120.017684. Epub 2021 Mar 15. [PubMed Abstract] [Full-Text HTML] [Full-Text PDF].
In addition to the resource below, please review the outstanding brief (10:28) YouTube video, Pulmonary Hypertension & Echo: 5 Pearls Summary, from the Core IM YouTube channel.
Jun 12, 2023.
How does the echo calculate the pulmonary artery systolic pressure estimation? What physiological insults that can cause high pulmonary pressures? What is the ddx based on the pathophysiology and workup?
Listen to the full episode: https://bit.ly/45V2B4z [link is to the Core IM podcast referenced below].
Today, I review, link to, and excerpt from Echo in Pulmonary Hypertension: 5 Pearls Segment* from CoreIM.
*Posted: April 6, 2022
By: Dr. Hannah Robertson, Dr. Adam Rodman, Dr. Anjali Vaidya, Dr. Noah Schoenberg and Dr. Shreya P. Trivedi
Graphic: Dr. Kabao Vang
Audio: Daksh Bhatia
Peer Review: Dr. Cyrus Kholdani, Dr. Timothy Fernandes
All that follows is from the above resource.