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Letter by Buttice and Ahmad Regarding Article, “Right Heart Dysfunction in Adults With Coarctation of Aorta: Prevalence and Prognostic Implications”

Letter by Buttice and Ahmad Regarding Article, “Right Heart Dysfunction in Adults With... Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging LETTER TO THE EDITOR Letter by Buttice and Ahmad Regarding Article, “Right Heart Dysfunction in Adults With Coarctation of Aorta: Prevalence and Prognostic Implications” Leonardo Buttice , BSc; Mahmood Ahmad, MBBS To the Editor: better understand its value as a marker of cardiovascular Egbe et al wrote an interesting article investigat- event risk or as a target for future therapies. ing the use of a novel prognostic tool where right heart Lastly, Mandell et al found, using 4-dimensional function and hemodynamics are used to assess the risk flow cardiovascular magnetic resonance, that patients of cardiovascular events in patients with coarctation of with previously repaired COA have altered secondary aorta (COA). It was found that the right heart hemody- flow characteristics such as vorticity and helicity which namic score, which is based on 7 right heart indices, such directly correlate with the impaired exercise capacity as right ventricular global longitudinal strain, was inde- that patients with COA experience. It was also found pendently associated with cardiovascular events, demon- that simple pressure gradients measured across the strating the prognostic implications this tool may provide aorta do not correlate with exercise capacity and mask in the clinical setting by http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Circulation Cardiovascular Imaging Wolters Kluwer Health

Letter by Buttice and Ahmad Regarding Article, “Right Heart Dysfunction in Adults With Coarctation of Aorta: Prevalence and Prognostic Implications”

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Wolters Kluwer Health
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© 2022 American Heart Association, Inc.
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1941-9651
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10.1161/circimaging.122.013971
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Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging LETTER TO THE EDITOR Letter by Buttice and Ahmad Regarding Article, “Right Heart Dysfunction in Adults With Coarctation of Aorta: Prevalence and Prognostic Implications” Leonardo Buttice , BSc; Mahmood Ahmad, MBBS To the Editor: better understand its value as a marker of cardiovascular Egbe et al wrote an interesting article investigat- event risk or as a target for future therapies. ing the use of a novel prognostic tool where right heart Lastly, Mandell et al found, using 4-dimensional function and hemodynamics are used to assess the risk flow cardiovascular magnetic resonance, that patients of cardiovascular events in patients with coarctation of with previously repaired COA have altered secondary aorta (COA). It was found that the right heart hemody- flow characteristics such as vorticity and helicity which namic score, which is based on 7 right heart indices, such directly correlate with the impaired exercise capacity as right ventricular global longitudinal strain, was inde- that patients with COA experience. It was also found pendently associated with cardiovascular events, demon- that simple pressure gradients measured across the strating the prognostic implications this tool may provide aorta do not correlate with exercise capacity and mask in the clinical setting by

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Published: Mar 23, 2022

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