Exercise echocardiography of left ventricular diastolic function in patients with different clinical conditions and cardiovascular risk factors: functional significance and prognostic impact
Pulmonary vascular pressures are flow-dependent, with invasively determined upper limits of normal pulmonary artery wedge pressure (PAWP) defined by a PAWP–cardiac output (CO) relationship of approximately 2 mmHg/L/min. Accordingly, flow-corrected indices such as the ratio of mitral Doppler E to tissue Doppler e'...