Impact of comorbidities and delay in diagnosis in elderly patients with pulmonary hypertension
ERJ Open Research, 2018 Patient age at diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension is steadily increasing. The present study sought to analyse clinical characteristics, time to diagnosis and prognosis of pulmonary hypertension in elderly and very elderly patients. A study was conducted
Marylise Ginoux +8 more
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Deep nested level sets: Fully automated segmentation of cardiac MR images in patients with pulmonary hypertension [PDF]
arXiv, 2018 In this paper we introduce a novel and accurate optimisation method for segmentation of cardiac MR (CMR) images in patients with pulmonary hypertension (PH). The proposed method explicitly takes into account the image features learned from a deep neural network.
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Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing With Simultaneous Echocardiography After Pulmonary Embolism
Pulmonary CirculationAlthough current guidelines recommend standard cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) to evaluate symptomatic patients after pulmonary embolism (PE), CPET with simultaneous echocardiography could provide relevant information to evaluate right ...
Karys Khilzi +11 more
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Interpreting risk reduction in clinical trials for pulmonary arterial hypertension
European Respiratory Review, 2018 Because of scepticism concerning study results when relying solely on relative effect estimates, the number needed to treat (NNT) has been used extensively to quantify the net clinical benefit of an intervention, and is reported increasingly in ...
Annie C. Lajoie +4 more
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Pulmonary vascular disease, environmental pollution, and climate change
Pulmonary CirculationPollution and climate change constitute a combined, grave and pervasive threat to humans and to the life‐support systems on which they depend. Evidence shows a strong association between pollution and climate change on cardiovascular and respiratory ...
Mona Lichtblau +2 more
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Pulmonary Vascular Tree Segmentation from Contrast-Enhanced CT Images [PDF]
arXiv, 2013 We present a pulmonary vessel segmentation algorithm, which is fast, fully automatic and robust. It uses a coarse segmentation of the airway tree and a left and right lung labeled volume to restrict a vessel enhancement filter, based on an offset medialness function, to the lungs. We show the application of our algorithm on contrast-enhanced CT images,
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Respirology Case ReportsDasatinib, a second‐generation tyrosine kinase inhibitor used for treating chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML), is associated with rare but significant adverse effects, including pulmonary arterial hypertension.
Sathish Krishnan, Sashi Adigopula
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Inoperable chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension treated with riociguat: A case study
Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia, 2015 A 51-year-old woman presented with a one-year history of progressive dyspnea, WHO functional class III-IV and exercise-related syncope. Transthoracic echocardiography and computed tomography pulmonary angiography were performed, leading to a diagnosis of
Carlos Ortiz-Bautista +4 more
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TabMixer: Noninvasive Estimation of the Mean Pulmonary Artery Pressure via Imaging and Tabular Data Mixing [PDF]
arXivRight Heart Catheterization is a gold standard procedure for diagnosing Pulmonary Hypertension by measuring mean Pulmonary Artery Pressure (mPAP). It is invasive, costly, time-consuming and carries risks. In this paper, for the first time, we explore the estimation of mPAP from videos of noninvasive Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
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