[The hemodynamic status and right ventricular diastolic function of bronchial asthma patients]

Doppler echocardiographic study of ventricular diastolic function in 90 BA patients gave evidence for diastolic left and right ventricular dysfunction in patients with moderately and gravely running BA. The above disorders were noted by changes in the speed of transmitral and transtricuspid flows: early filling rate (E) slowing, atrial systole filling rate (A) acceleration, E/A decrease. The degree of right ventricular diastolic dysfunction depends on right ventricular hypertrophy and total pulmonary resistance. Left ventricular diastolic function is related to right ventricular after-load.