Patients talk about right heart catheterizations

“I definitely believe there’s significant value in the right heart cath at diagnosis. It’s known to be the gold standard for diagnosing pulmonary hypertension, providing the most accurate measurement of pulmonary artery pressures to determine if a patient has pulmonary hypertension.”
-- Nicole Dempsey

For people living with pulmonary hypertension, right heart catheterizations are a necessary chapter in everyone's individual story. What do patients value about right heart catheterizations? How would they like their care providers to share the results? What do they hope their medical team will do with the results?

A small group of patients shares their insights in this article, amplifying their lived experiences and facilitating the exchange of knowledge with the medical community.

Congratulations to all the authors -- patient partners Nicole Dempsey, Brinley Marks, Brooke Paulin, and Kate Salonga; Kimberly Brunelle and Jamie Myrah of PHA Canada; and Dr. Susanna Mak from the University of Toronto.

Read the abstract in the Journal of Cardiac Failure, and write us at info@phacanada.ca if you'd like to read the whole paper.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1071916425004026