GEOMETRY OF THE RIGHT VENTRICLE IN PATIENTS WITH BRONCHIAL ASTHMA

Abstract

45 patients with bronchial asthma and uncontrolled course of the disease went through echocardiography. The geometry of the right ventricle on its different levels (inflow and outflow) was studied. It was established that patients with a mild bronchial asthma against the absence of pharmacotherapeutic control had an increase of transverse diameter and square of the right ventricle combined with the decrease of the fraction of square change in the top, which proves the forming of structural and functional changes of the right ventricle at the given stage of the disease development. Bronchial asthma severity degree growth leads to more intensive remodeling of the right ventricle and to changes of regional indices of reduction at inflow level.