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European Respiratory Review, 2016 In 2015, more than 800 papers were published in the field of pulmonary hypertension. A Clinical Year in Review article cannot possibly incorporate all this work and needs to be selective. The recently published European guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary hypertension contain an inclusive summary of all published clinical studies ...
Noordegraaf, Anton Vonk +2 more
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Pulmonary Medicine, 2012 Pulmonary hypertension (PH), defined as elevated pulmonary artery pressure, is common in the general population and associated with increased mortality. Accordingly, physicians commonly encounter patients with dyspnea, exercise intolerance, and/or right heart failure who have elevated pulmonary artery systolic pressure (PASP) on echocardiography ...
Ilknur Basyigit +4 more
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Annals of Internal Medicine, 2013 Pulmonary hypertension is the term used to describe a group of disorders characterized by abnormally high pressures in the pulmonary arteries. Initial evaluation is focused on identifying the cause, which helps guide appropriate treatment. Pulmonary hypertension is often a feature of advanced common diseases, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary ...
Jess Mandel, David Poch
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Canadian Journal of Cardiology, 2010 Abstract Symptoms of unexplained exertional breathlessness or symptoms out of proportion to coexistent heart or lung disease should alert the clinician to the possibility of pulmonary hypertension, and the condition should be actively sought in patients with known associated conditions, such as scleroderma, hypoxic lung disease, liver ...
Benjamin, Hibbert +4 more
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, 2011 The fundamental morphologic classification into plexogenic arteriopathy, thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary venous hypertension, and pulmonary hypertension associated with intrinsic lung disease and/or hypoxia, remains similar to the previous edition, but pulmonary capillary hemangiomatosis (PCH) is now viewed as a part of pulmonary ...
Andrew M. Churg, Joanne L. Wright
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American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2005 The modern era in cardiopulmonary medicine began in the 1940s, when Cournand and Richards pioneered right-heart catheterization. Until that time, no direct measurement of central vascular pressure had been performed in humans. Right-heart catheterization ignited an explosion of insights into function and dysfunction of the pulmonary circulation ...
Paul, McLoughlin +2 more
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ERJ Open Research, 2023 Research questions Patients with severe pulmonary hypertension associated with chronic lung disease have a poor prognosis. Targeted pulmonary arterial hypertension therapies might improve exercise capacity and outcome, but there are no guidelines on ...
Romain Naud +10 more
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A Case Report of Systemic Sclerosis Complicated by Biventricular Heart Failure, Pulmonary Hypertension and Review of Literature [PDF]
, 2017 Background: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is an autoimmune connective tissue disorder whose aetiology is not fully understood. Skin fibrosis and visceral organs involvement are the hallmarks, and the heart could be disproportionately or subtly involved ...
Akinboro AO +3 more
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Pulmonary hypertension: evolution of pulmonary arterial hypertension and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension [PDF]
Journal of Thoracic Disease, 2016 On May 16 th , 2016, Nick H. Kim, MD [University of California San Diego (UCSD), Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine] delivered his keynote presentation outlining the current state of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH).
Anderson, Ryan J +2 more
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