Right atrial pressure estimated by a portable hand-held ultrasound corresponded with B-type natriuretic peptide and was an independent predictor of clinical worsening in patients with pulmonary hypertension, researchers reported.
“Portable handheld point-of-care ultrasound is a quick and easy method of estimating right atrial pressure, which makes it attractive to use in outpatient pulmonary hypertension clinics,” Sneha Samant, MD, pulmonary disease specialist at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, and East Jefferson General Hospital, Metairie,