If concern for pulmonary hypertension, an echocardiogram can be helpful estimate pulmonary pressure. The gold standard for diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension is a right heart catheterization, which gives right atrial pressure, right ventricular systolic/diastolic pressure, pulmonary artery systolic/diastolic/mean pressures, as well as left sided filling pressure via the wedge pressure.
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