Indications for Diagnostic Right-Sided Heart Catheterization
(www.hopkinsmedicine.org) Significant valvular pathology Suspected intracardiac shunting Acute infarct—differentiation of free wall versus septal rupture Evaluation of right- and/or left-sided heart failure Evaluation of pulmonary hypertension Severe pulmonary disease Evaluation of pericardial disease Constrictive pericarditis Restrictive cardiomyopathy Pericardial effusion Pretransplantation assessment of pulmonary vascular resistance and response to vasodilators