Does electrocardiographic right ventricular hypertrophy predict the severity of pulmonary hypertension in patients with mitral stenosis?
Electrocardiographic RVH was found to be related to more severe mitral stenosis, higher pulmonary arterial pressure, and larger right heart chambers. RVH can be a simple and useful parameter to predict the severity of pulmonary hypertension.
Our findings suggest that common genetic variation in CRP and IL6 genes may contribute to heterogeneity of COPD population associated with systemic inflammation.