Assessment of right ventricle in pulmonary arterial hypertension with three-dimensional echocardiography and cardiovascular magnetic resonance

To correlate 3-D Echo and CMR RV parameters and to verify whether they are similarly related to the clinical conditions of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), a disease in which the RV plays a crucial prognostic role.We enrolled 34 consecutive PAH patients followed by our PAH clinics. All patients underwent a 3-D Echo and CMR assessment of RV volumes and functions in the same day. The presence or absence of correlation between...