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Abstract
Introduction: Recognition and evaluation of structural heart disease has become more common in clinical practice and will continue to grow as the population ages. With the growing availability of surgical and transcatheter interventional options, appropriate evaluation and patient selection for therapy is required. While echocardiography can frequently provide the required anatomic and hemodynamic information required to guide therapeutic decisions, there remains subsets of patients in which noninvasive testing yields inconclusive results prompting the need for invasive hemodynamics.
Areas covered: This article reviews the indications and strengths of invasive hemodynamics in a variety of structural heart diseases. We describe the utilization and benefits of continuous hemodynamics during transcatheter interventions and review the prognostic information that can be gleaned from changes in hemodynamics after intervention.
Expert opinion: The advancement of transcatheter therapies for structural heart disease has sparked a renewed interest in the utilization of invasive hemodynamics. Continued growth and accessibility of comprehensive hemodynamics for clinical practice will rely on clinicians to continually review, refine, and develop procedural techniques beyond the current training standards in order to further advance the field.
期刊介绍:
Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy (ISSN 1477-9072) provides expert reviews on the clinical applications of new medicines, therapeutic agents and diagnostics in cardiovascular disease. Coverage includes drug therapy, heart disease, vascular disorders, hypertension, cholesterol in cardiovascular disease, heart disease, stroke, heart failure and cardiovascular surgery. The Expert Review format is unique. Each review provides a complete overview of current thinking in a key area of research or clinical practice.