Pulmonary Hypertension (PH)
High-altitude pulmonary hypertension
... igh-altitude pulmonary hypertension (HAPH) due to chronic exposure to high altitude is a designated subset of pulmon- ary hypertension (PH) according to the third clinical classification of PH, which ...
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Tumoral pulmonary hypertension
... Tumoral pulmonary hypertension (PH) comprises a variety of subtypes in patients with a current or previous ...tumour-related pulmonary microvascular conditions pulmonary tumour microembolism ...
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Prevalence of pulmonary hypertension in COPD
... of pulmonary hypertension, that is similar in prevalence of previous ...of pulmonary arterial pressure is reported to occur in 20-90% of patients when measured by right heart catheterization with ...
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Inflammatory cytokines in pulmonary hypertension
... in pulmonary vasculature in lungs from PAH ...of pulmonary hypertension and margin endothelial injuries, through the upregulation of BMPR2 in lung tissue ...
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Contemporary issues in pulmonary hypertension
... in pulmonary arterial hypertension ...ary hypertension’’ [3] aimed at grouping together different PH manifestations with similar pathophysiological mechanisms, clinical presentation and therapeutic ...
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Pulmonary hypertension associated with COPD
... of pulmonary hypertension (PH) in individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is not known precisely, approximately 10%–30% of patients with moderate to severe COPD have elevated ...
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Anxiety and depression disorders in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension
... Only a few studies have assessed the effects of treatment of depression or anxiety in patients with pulmonary hypertension. Patients treated with epoprostenol had a lower rate of depression and anxiety ...
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Pulmonary Hypertension in Pulmonary Langerhans Cell Granulomatosis
... Introduction. Pulmonary Langerhans cell granulomatosis is a rare disease with a variable ...In pulmonary Langerhans cell granulomatosis pulmonary hypertension is frequent and has an ...
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Update on pulmonary hypertension complicating chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
... Abstract: Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is the hemodynamic manifestation of various pathological processes that result in elevated pulmonary artery pressures ...defined pulmonary arterial ...
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Pulmonary endarterectomy in the management of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension
... recurrent pulmonary hypertension months or years after ...right pulmonary artery, while the left pulmonary artery territory, inoperable because of distal location of disease, was treated using ...
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Development and validation of the living with pulmonary hypertension questionnaire in pulmonary arterial hypertension patients
... characteristics of PAH; symptoms experienced by patients and the resulting functional impairments, and available treatment options. The conceptual model was used as basis for a review of existing HRQoL instruments and to ...
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Pulmonary hypertension
... the pulmonary hypertension population but there is no change in the duration of the disease prior to diagnosis or its severity at the time of ...to pulmonary arterial hypertension at both ...
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The pathophysiology of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension
... and/or pulmonary angiography) does not correlate with the dramatic increase in PVR [86] (examples are shown in figure ...persistent pulmonary hypertension after PEA, as does incomplete removal of ...
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Balloon pulmonary angioplasty in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension
... with pulmonary hypertension, including CTEPH, should be evaluated and managed in a centre with specialist expertise and facilities [1], including a CTEPH team ...persistent/recurrent pulmonary ...
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Acute decompensated pulmonary hypertension
... precapillary pulmonary hypertension is one of successive stages, the characteristics of which are mainly related to right ventricular function (figure ...progressive pulmonary vascular remodelling. ...
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Pulmonary hypertension
... reduce pulmonary artery pressures and did not improve other invasive haemodynamic or clinical parameters in a well characterised cohort of patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction and ...
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Treatment of pediatric pulmonary hypertension
... Abstract: Pulmonary hypertension was once thought to be a rare condition and only managed in specialized ...behind pulmonary hypertension and pulmonary vascular disease is ...
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Pulmonary hypertension associated with sarcoidosis
... advanced pulmonary disease, especially end-stage pulmonary fibrosis, risk developing pulmonary hypertension (World Health Organization group III pulmonary hypertension secondary ...
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Persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn
... in pulmonary transition at birth. Pulmonary endothelial nitric oxide (NO) produc- tion increases markedly at the time of ...a pulmonary vasodilator during fetal life and a potential stimulus for ...
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Primary Pulmonary Hypertension
... Primary Pulmonary Hypertension CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION Primary Pulmonary Hypertension 2dI 11111 ARM Fauzi, MRCP, Kulliyah of Medicine, IIUM, Kuantan Introduction Primary pulmonary hypertension is[.] ...
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