Should right ventricle dilatation during exercise have clinical implications in patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension? Case report

We describe the case of a 30-year-old female patient with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension that has an excellent functional capacity under treatment with sildenafil. She did an exercise stress echocardiography that revealed marked right ventricular dilatation during exercise. This infor...

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Autores principales: Cotrim, Carlos, Loureiro, Maria J, Miranda, Rita, Almeida, Sofia, Almeida, Ana R, Simões, Otília, Cordeiro, Pedro, Carrageta, Manuel
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2235828/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18162132
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-7120-5-50
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author Cotrim, Carlos
Loureiro, Maria J
Miranda, Rita
Almeida, Sofia
Almeida, Ana R
Simões, Otília
Cordeiro, Pedro
Carrageta, Manuel
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Miranda, Rita
Almeida, Sofia
Almeida, Ana R
Simões, Otília
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description We describe the case of a 30-year-old female patient with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension that has an excellent functional capacity under treatment with sildenafil. She did an exercise stress echocardiography that revealed marked right ventricular dilatation during exercise. This information was used for clinical decision and the authors discuss the potential utility of this echocardiographyc sign.
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spelling pubmed-22358282008-02-09 Should right ventricle dilatation during exercise have clinical implications in patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension? Case report Cotrim, Carlos Loureiro, Maria J Miranda, Rita Almeida, Sofia Almeida, Ana R Simões, Otília Cordeiro, Pedro Carrageta, Manuel Cardiovasc Ultrasound Case Report We describe the case of a 30-year-old female patient with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension that has an excellent functional capacity under treatment with sildenafil. She did an exercise stress echocardiography that revealed marked right ventricular dilatation during exercise. This information was used for clinical decision and the authors discuss the potential utility of this echocardiographyc sign. BioMed Central 2007-12-27 /pmc/articles/PMC2235828/ /pubmed/18162132 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-7120-5-50 Text en Copyright © 2007 Cotrim et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Cotrim, Carlos
Loureiro, Maria J
Miranda, Rita
Almeida, Sofia
Almeida, Ana R
Simões, Otília
Cordeiro, Pedro
Carrageta, Manuel
Should right ventricle dilatation during exercise have clinical implications in patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension? Case report
title Should right ventricle dilatation during exercise have clinical implications in patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension? Case report
title_full Should right ventricle dilatation during exercise have clinical implications in patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension? Case report
title_fullStr Should right ventricle dilatation during exercise have clinical implications in patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension? Case report
title_full_unstemmed Should right ventricle dilatation during exercise have clinical implications in patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension? Case report
title_short Should right ventricle dilatation during exercise have clinical implications in patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension? Case report
title_sort should right ventricle dilatation during exercise have clinical implications in patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension? case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2235828/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18162132
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-7120-5-50
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