What do you include in your initial basic work-up for suspected pulmonary hypertension? Do you know how to calculate the PASP on the ECHO? What physiological insults that can cause high pulmonary pressures? How can we interpret the E/e’ ratio?

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Time stamps:

• 02:18 Intro
• 05:27 Pearl 1 
• 12:17 Pearl 2
• 16:13 Pearl 3
• 24:04 Pearl 4
• 30:08 Pearl 5
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Tags: IM Core, CoreIM, PASP, Echo, hypoxia, PA pressure, vascular resistance