Exercise Pulmonary Hypertension in Heart Valve Disease

TL;DR

This paper reviews how exercise-induced pulmonary hypertension helps predict outcomes and guide treatment decisions in heart valve disease.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of the role of exercise pulmonary hypertension in managing heart valve disease.

Findings

Exercise pulmonary hypertension detected via stress echocardiography has prognostic value in heart valve disease.

It can predict symptoms and mortality in patients with valvulopathies.

Exercise PH may influence diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for heart valve disease.

Abstract

The optimal management of heart valve disease (HVD) is still debated and many
studies are underway to identify the best time to refer patients for the most
appropriate treatment strategy (either conservative, surgical or transcatheter
interventions). Exercise pulmonary hypertension (PH) can be detected during
exercise stress echocardiography (ESE) and has been demonstrated to have an
important prognostic role in HVD, by predicting symptoms and mortality. This
review article aims to provide an overview on the prognostic role of exercise PH
in valvulopathies, and its possible role in the diagnostic-therapeutic algorithm
for the management of HVD.

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