Noninvasive prediction of the exercise-induced elevation in left ventricular filling pressure in post-heart transplant patients with normal left ventricular ejection fraction.

Abstract

Exercise E/e', used as a sole parameter, is not sufficiently precise to predict the exercise-induced elevation of PCWP. Exercise E/s', E/LV systolic longitudinal strain rate or combinations of these parameters may represent further promising possibilities for predicting exercise PCWP elevation.