Evaluatie van de rechter ventrikelfunctie tijdens inspanning bij atleten en patiënten met pulmonale hypertensie KU Leuven
It is increasingly recognized that the right ventricle (RV) is an important predictor of prognosis and exercise capacity in a broad range of cardiac and pulmonary vascular diseases. In healthy subjects with a normal pulmonary circulation, the hemodynamic load on the RV increases relatively more during exercise than that of the left ventricle (LV) and this disproportionate load is far greater in patients with pulmonary hypertension. Despite the ...