Noninvasive assessment of systolic pulmonary artery pressure in systemic lupus erythematosus: retrospective analysis of 93 patients.

Abstract

PH is a relatively common complication of SLE patients managed in tertiary care centres. Doppler echocardiography allows non-invasive detection of elevated sPAP in this population that should then benefit from gold-standard techniques including right-heart catheterisation in order to confirm the diagnosis, as well as the cause and severity of PH.