A multicentric quality-control study of exercise Doppler
echocardiography of the right heart and the pulmonarycirculation
Francesco Ferrara1, MD, Luna
Gargani2, MD, Carla Contaldi1, MD,
PhD, Gergely Agoston3, MD, Paola
Argiento4, MD, William F Armstrong5,
MD, Francesco Bandera6, MD, Rodolfo
Citro1, MD, PHD, Antonio Cittadini7,
MD, PhD, Rosangela Cocchia8, MD, Michele
D’Alto4, MD, PhD, Antonello
D’Andrea9, MD, PhD, Philippe
Douschan10, MD, Stefano Ghio11, MD,
PhD, Ekkehard Grünig12, MD, Marco
Guazzi6, MD, PhD, Stefania Guida11,
MD, Jaroslaw D. Kasprzak13, MD, Theodore John
Kolias5, MD, Alberto Maria Marra7,
MD, PhD, Matteo Mazzola2, MD, Antonella
Moreo14, MD, Francesco Pieri15, MD,
Lorenza Pratali2, MD, PhD, Nicola Riccardo
Pugliese16, MD, Mauro Raciti2, MD,
Brigida Ranieri17, PhD, Lawrence
Rudski18, MD, Valentina Russo19, MD,
Rajan Saggar20, MD, Walter Serra21,
MD, PhD, Anna Agnese Stanziola22, MD, PhD, Mani
Vannan23, MD, Damien Voilliot24, MD,
Olga Vriz25, MD, Karina Wierzbowska
Drabik13, MD, Robert Naeije26, MD,
Eduardo Bossone8, MD, PhD. On behalf of the RIGHT
Heart International NETwork (RIGHT-NET).
1 Cardio-Thoracic-Vascular Department,
University Hospital “San Giovanni di Dio e Ruggi d’Aragona”, Salerno,
Italy
2 Institute of Clinical Physiology - C.N.R., Pisa,
Italy
3 Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine,
University of Szeged; Szeged-Hungary
4 Department of Cardiology, University of Campania
”Luigi Vanvitelli”, Naples, Italy
5 Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of
Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
6 Heart Failure Unit and Cardiopulmonary Laboratory,
IRCCS Policlinico San Donato University Hospital, Milan, Italy Heart
Failure Unit, Cardiology University Department, IRCCS Policlinico San
Donato, Milan , Italy; Department for Biomedical Sciences for Health,
University of Milano, Milan, Italy
7 Department of Translational Medical Sciences,
Federico II University, Naples, Italy
8 Cardiology Division, A Cardarelli Hospital, Naples,
Italy
9 Department of Cardiology, Umberto I° Hospital Nocera
Inferiore, Italy
10 Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
11 Division of Cardiology, Fondazione IRCCS
Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy
12 Center of Pulmonary Hypertension, Thoraxklinik
Heidelberg at Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany
13 I Dept. and Chair of Cardiology, Bieganski
Hospital, Medical University of Lodz, Poland
14 A. De Gasperis Cardio Center, ASST Grande Ospedale
Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy
15 Cardiology Department, Careggi University Hospital,
Florence, Italy
16 Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine,
University of Pisa, Italy
17 IRCCS SDN, Naples, Italy
18 Azrieli Heart Center and Center for Pulmonary
Vascular Diseases, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal,
Quebec, Canada
19 Hypertension Research Center, University Federico
II of Naples, Italy
20 Lung & Heart-Lung Transplant and Pulmonary
Hypertension Programs David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, USA
21 Cardiology Division, University Hospital, Parma,
Italy
22 Department of Respiratory Diseases, Monaldi
Hospital, University “Federico II”, Naples, Italy
23 Piedmont Heart Institute, Marcus Heart Valve
Center, Atlanta
24 Centre Hospitalier Lunéville, Service de
Cardiologie, Lunéville, France
25 Heart Centre, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and
Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
26Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium