Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Induced Right Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction And/Or Failure: Fact, Fiction Or A Dilemma For New Therapeutic Interventions?

PURPOSE: Up-to-date right ventricular diastolic function in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) patients (pts)has not been thoroughly investigated. Thus, there is always a great dilemma to be recognised, whether right ventricular diastolic dysfunction (RVVD)and/or failure, related to COPD pathophysiology, is, indeed, a fact, fiction or a dilemma for new therapeutic interventions.