However, clinical improvement in certain cases may be striking despite little or no change on cardiac catheterization. Although the mean pulmonary-artery pressure declined in all but 2 patients ...
Combined cardiac catheterization was performed in 3 subjects. The pulmonary-artery pressures were normal in 2 of the 3, and pulmonary hypertension was present in the third (Table 1), in whom the ...
Use of a pulmonary artery catheter (PAC) for hemodynamic monitoring in patients with severe heart failure is controversial, partly because its effect on patients' outcomes is uncertain.