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Echocardiography is helpful to diagnose [[pulmonary hypertension]] in patients with long standing chronic bronchitis. | |||
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Patients with chronic bronchitis may develop pulmonary hypertension due to long standing disease and hypoxemia. The hypoxemia causes vascular remodeling eventually leading to right sided heart failure or cor pulmonale. Though the pulmonary hypertension is only mild to moderate in COPD patients but findings of pulmonary hypertension on echocardiogram warrant further work up.A confirmation of diagnosis with pulmonary hypertension should be confirmed by cardiac catheterization. | |||
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1] Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief:
Overview
Echocardiography is helpful to diagnose pulmonary hypertension in patients with long standing chronic bronchitis.
Echocardiography
Patients with chronic bronchitis may develop pulmonary hypertension due to long standing disease and hypoxemia. The hypoxemia causes vascular remodeling eventually leading to right sided heart failure or cor pulmonale. Though the pulmonary hypertension is only mild to moderate in COPD patients but findings of pulmonary hypertension on echocardiogram warrant further work up.A confirmation of diagnosis with pulmonary hypertension should be confirmed by cardiac catheterization.