Volume : VII, Issue : IX, September - 2017

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY & ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY FINDINGS IN COPD

Armugam P, Faraz Farishta, K M Siddharth

Abstract :

 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a common entity encountered in clinical practice, which is, defined by GOLD as a preventable and treatable disease with significant extra pulmonary effects.1

 

According to the World Bank data the morbidity and mortality due to COPD could reach 5th and 3rd leading causes by 2020. (2, 3)

 

COPD is associated with significant extra pulmonary effects out of which the cardiac manifestations are most common.4

 

COPD affects the pulmonary vessels; the right ventricle leading to the development of pulmonary hypertension, corpulmonale, right ventricular dysfunction and in some cases left ventricular dysfunction as well.

 

The major morbidity in COPD is due the impact on cardiac performance. The early recognition and initiation of treatment may improve the survival and quality of living.

 

The electrocardiography is a very simple bedside investigation, which could be used to assess the cardiac changes secondary to COPD.

 

The echocardiography provides a rapid, portable noninvasive method to assess the right ventricular function, right ventricular filling pressures, tricuspid regurgitation, other chamber and valvular functions.

 

This study was undertaken to study the electrocardiographic and echocardiographic changes in COPD patients with different grades of severity of the disease, as assessed through pulmonary function testing.

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Armugam P, Faraz Farishta, K M Siddharth, ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY & ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY FINDINGS IN COPD, INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-7 | Issue-9 | September-2017


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