Right Atrium Volume Index in Non-Severe Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Abstract

Introduction: Right atrium volume index (RAVI) has recently been reported as a quantitative echocardiographic parameter associated with right ventricular systolic dys-function (RVSD) in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Keywords

• stress-echocardiography
• right ventricular diastolic dysfunction
• right atrium remodeling
• non-severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
• cardio-pulmonary testing