Interobserver and Intraobserver Agreement on Qualitative Assessments of Right Ventricular Dysfunction With Echocardiography in Patients With Pulmonary Embolism

Conclusions—
Agreement was substantial for both severe RV enlargement and RV systolic dysfunction and moderate for septal deviation. Right ventricular dysfunction assessment with qualitative goal-directed echocardiographic criteria is reproducible for PE risk stratification.

Source: Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine - September 25, 2016 Category: Radiology Authors: Weekes, A. J., Oh, L., Thacker, G., Johnson, A. K., Runyon, M., Rose, G., Johnson, T., Templin, M., Norton, H. J. Tags: Original Research Source Type: research