Resting Echocardiographic Assessments of Left Atrial Function and Filling Pressure Interest in the Understanding of Exercise Capacity in Patients with Chronic Congestive Heart Failure

Capacity to exercise in patients with CHF is understandable by resting echocardiography. Filling pressures, and LA and right ventricular functions, are its cardiac best determinants. Adding Aa peak velocity in resting echocardiographic evaluation of patients with CHF is found useful.