Title: Evaluation of Cardiac Function by Echocardiography in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patients and its Correlation with Disease Severity
Authors: Dr Md Saquib Mokhatar, Dr Shivlok Narayan Ambedkar, Dr B.K Tripathi, Dr Rahul Kumar, Dr Gaurav Bhashker, Dr Chandra Shekhar C
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v6i11.126
Abstract
COPD IS A leading cause of death and disability worldwide. COPD has considerable effects on cardiac function, most of the increased mortality associated with COPD is due to cardiac involvement specially pulmonary artery hypertension, cor-pulmonale, cardiac arrhythmias, congestive heart failure and pulmonary embolism. Echocardioghraphy provides a rapid, non-invasive portable & almost accurate method to evaluate cardiac function
