Panelists discuss how pulmonary arterial hypertension diagnosis requires comprehensive evaluation including right heart ...

It’s a diagnostic tool for a variety of heart and lung ailments.‌ Your doctor may also refer to it as pulmonary artery catheterization or right heart catheterization. A Swan-Ganz catheter may ...

Investigators found significant shifts in diagnosis of and prescriptions for pulmonary hypertension (PH) when exercise right heart catheterization was used. A new report shows the use of exercise ...

A healthcare professional may use right cardiac catheterization to measure blood pressure in the heart and sometimes to take biopsies. A doctor may perform a left heart catheterization and ...

The current practice to obtain these measurements is for patients to undergo echocardiography and invasive right heart catheterization, which are resource intensive, restricted to medical ...

Left ventriculography can visualized VSDs as well. During right heart catheterization, oxygen saturations are frequently measured from different cardiac chambers in order to identify left to right ...