Abstract:Objective To investigate the clinical value of right ventricular to left ventricular volume ratio (RVv/LVv) and echocardiographic (UCG) pulmonary artery systolic pressure (PASP) in the diagnosis of pulmonary artery hypertension (PAH). Methods A retrospective analysis was conducted on 136 patients of suspected PAH newly diagnosed in our hospital from February 2015 to July 2017. Taking the results of right heart catheterization (RHC) as the gold standard of diagnosis, the accuracy of RVv/LVv and PASPUCG in PAH diagnosis was observed. Results Among the 136 suspected PAH patients, 102 were PAH patients and 34 were non-PAH patients. There were significant differences in PASPRHC and RVv/LVv between the two groups (P < 0.05), while RVv/LVv and PASPUCG were positively associated with PASPRHC (P < 0.05). The best critical values of RVv/LVv and PASPUCG obtained by ROC were 0.86 and 40 mmHg respectively. The diagnostic sensitivity, specificity and accuracy of RVv/LVv were 89.4% (95% CI: 0.814, 0.943), 88.2% (95% CI: 0.716, 0.962) and 89.0% (95% CI: 0.802, 0.957), respectively; those of PASPUCG were 91.1% (95% CI: 0.835, 0.956), 85.3% (95% CI: 0.682, 0.945) and 89.7% (95% CI: 0.856, 0.972) respectively; and those of the combination of the two were 98.0% (95% CI: 0.924, 0.997), 85.3% (95% CI: 0.682, 0.945) and 94.9% (95% CI: 0.889, 0.989) respectively. Conclusions RVv/LVv and PASPUCG have better diagnostic efficacy in the early diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension, their combination can further improve the diagnostic accuracy.