COMPARISON OF SWAN-GANZ INVASIVE HEMODYNAMIC MEASUREMENTS AND ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC DATA

Abstract

Swan-Ganz catheterization is executed in a patient population with heart failure and suspected pulmonary hypertension. Echocardiographic data of these patients is also collected. Both the data sets are compared and correlations are tested out to see if the non-invasive echocardiographic data can be used to predict the invasive swan-ganz data.