What reveals the right ventricle about prognosis in heart failure, and why appear metrics to be sex-specific?

J Clin Ultrasound. 2021 Nov;49(9):914-917. doi: 10.1002/jcu.23070. Epub 2021 Sep 18.

Authors

Peter L M Kerkhof¹, Rienzi A Diaz-Navarro², Neal Handly³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, VUmc, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
² Department of Internal Medicine and Center for Biomedical Research, School of Medicine, Universidad de Valparaiso, Chile.
³ Department of Emergency Medicine, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

PMID: 34536022
DOI: 10.1002/jcu.23070

No abstract available

Keywords: ejection fraction; end-systolic volume; heart failure; prognosis; ratio-based metric; right ventricle.

MeSH terms

Benchmarking
Female
Heart Failure* / diagnostic imaging
Heart Ventricles / diagnostic imaging
Humans
Male
Prognosis
Stroke Volume
Ventricular Dysfunction, Right*
Ventricular Function, Right