Simultaneously right heart catheterization and echocardiography in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension to validate the non-invasive deformation-area loop
Not yet recruiting
- Conditions
- Patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH)
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON22967
- Lead Sponsor
- Radboud University Medical Center Nijmegen
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Pending
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 20
Inclusion Criteria
strong suspicion of PAH, WHO group 1, confirmed during right hearth catheterization.
- Over 18 years of age
Exclusion Criteria
- cardiovascular diseases, other than PAH
- diabetes mellitus
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method - The relation between the systolic slope of the deformation-area loop and the end-systolic pressure-volume relationship of the pressure volume curve.<br /><br>- The relation between the slope of the diastolic part of the deformation-area loop during passive filling and the end-diastolic pressure-volume relationship of the pressure volume curve.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Other correlation between the characteristics of the deformation-area loop and the pressure-volume curve.<br>