Ventricular Function

SAN DIEGO — Measures of pulmonary vascular disease and right ventricular function improved with longer lifetime menses in pulmonary hypertension, according to research presented at the American Thoracic Society International Conference.

NEW ORLEANS — Reduced left ventricular ejection fraction may be tied to adverse changes in muscle quality among patients with breast cancer or lymphoma undergoing cancer treatment with anthracyclines, a speaker reported.

Weight loss after bariatric surgery may drive marked improvements in cardiac structure and function due to reductions in visceral fat, including left ventricular reverse remodeling and reduced ventricular interaction, researchers reported.

MyoKardia announced that the FDA has granted breakthrough therapy designation to mavacamten for the treatment of patients with symptomatic, obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Patients with COVID-19 had impaired left ventricular diastolic and right ventricular function despite most patients having preserved LV systolic function, researchers found in a study published in Circulation.