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Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging, Cardiovascular System & Cardiology, apical traction, pulmonary hypertension, right ventricular function, speckle-tracking echocardiography, survival, RIGHT-VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, ARTERIAL-HYPERTENSION, STRAIN, DISEASE, HEART, DISPLACEMENT, ASSOCIATION, GUIDELINES, CARDIOLOGY, ECHO, Echocardiography, Female, Heart Ventricles, Hemodynamics, Humans, Hypertension, Pulmonary, Male, Middle Aged, Predictive Value of Tests, Prognosis, Retrospective Studies, Survival Rate, 3201 Cardiovascular medicine and haematology

Abstract:

In some pulmonary hypertension (PH) patients, we noted a motion pattern where the right ventricular (RV) apex is pulled towards to left ventricle (LV) during systole, caused by traction from the LV ('apical traction', AT). Herein, we characterize patients with AT to investigate its prognostic significance.