SCREENING FOR PULMONARY HYPERTENSION:
Lung perfusion: MRI vs. SPECT for screening in suspected chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension.
... a pulmonary hypertension referral center, 13 the negative and positive predictive value will only be valid for a population where the probability of CTEPH and CTED is high, although given the high ...
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Screening strategies for pulmonary arterial hypertension
... Sheffield Pulmonary Hypertension IndeX project 27 aims to develop a predictive algorithm based on routinely collected healthcare utilization data to reduce the time to IPAH ...with pulmonary ...
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Screening for pulmonary arterial hypertension in systemic sclerosis
... annual screening for patients with SSc, meeting certain criteria in the 6th World Symposium on Pulmonary Hypertension and the 2015 European Society of Cardiology/European Respiratory Society ...
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Screening for pulmonary arterial hypertension in systemic sclerosis
... detect pulmonary hypertension by echocardiography is based on the estimate of the right ventricular systolic pressure by means of the maximal tricuspid regurgitation velocity (TRV) ...of pulmonary ...
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Screening patients with scleroderma for pulmonary arterial hypertension and implications for other at-risk populations
... on screening in SSc-PAH sheds light on other important issues as ...identified pulmonary hypertension is PAH, other forms of pulmonary hypertension can occur as well, lung disease [48], ...
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Tumoral pulmonary hypertension
... include screening for undiagnosed ...unprovoked pulmonary embolism [49]: mammography, a contrast-enhanced CT abdomen/pelvis and consideration of further targeted tests ...
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<p>Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension In Systemic Sclerosis: Challenges In Diagnosis, Screening And Treatment</p>
... class II), all the parenteral and inhaled agents are often reserved for patients with WHO class III and IV patients in clinical practice. Ef fi cacy of parenteral epoprostenol was studied in a 12- week, open-label study ...
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Risk factors associated with pulmonary arterial hypertension in patients with systemic sclerosis and implications for screening
... of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in Systemic Sclerosis) study, which was initiated in 2008, is a prospective, observational, cohort study in two stages consisting of a cross-sectional stage (baseline) and ...
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Anxiety and depression disorders in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension
... appears to be not only underdiagnosed but also under- treated. The results of this study suggest that a screening for MD in PH-patients using specific questionnaires should be integrated in clinical practice. ...
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Prevalence of pulmonary hypertension in COPD
... 4-7 Pulmonary hypertension can occur as an isolated disease or as a consequence of a number of underlying diseases and conditions, such as heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ...
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Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
... parameters. Pulmonary function testing will exclude or characterize the contribution of underlying airway or parenchymal ...disease. Screening overnight oximetry will exclude significant obstructive sleep ...
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A comparison of the predictive accuracy of three screening models for pulmonary arterial hypertension in systemic sclerosis
... three screening algorithms were applied in the current study were not included in the original ASIG algorithm derivation study, they were still recruited from the same ...of screening al- gorithms such as ...
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Pulmonary hypertension
... the pulmonary vasculature, mitochondrial dysregulation, disturbances in the extracellular matrix and abnormal levels of vasoactive ...in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension)), long-term follow-up showed ...
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Pulmonary hypertension
... Long-Term Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Disease Management ...of pulmonary hypertension centres in the USA (although not all of them) and now encompass more than 3,000 ...into ...
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The Giessen Pulmonary Hypertension Registry: Survival in pulmonary hypertension subgroups
... of Pulmonary Hypertension Identi fied at a Referral Center; CHD, congenital heart disease; CI, cardiac index; DC, dual combination; CTD, connective tissue disease; Gi-PH-Reg, Giessen Pulmonary ...
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Pulmonary arterial hypertension and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension: pathophysiology
... PAH, pulmonary endarterectomy is the treatment of choice in patients with ...distal pulmonary artery ...persistent pulmonary hypertension after ...
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Pulmonary capillary pressure in pulmonary hypertension
... It is likely that none of the proposed sampling times derived from experimental studies is valid for studies in humans, which are mainly conducted in the setting of pulmonary arterial hyper- tension. Because of ...
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Pulmonary Function in Primary Pulmonary Hypertension
... of pulmonary hypertension, such as portal hypertension, interstitial lung disease, throm- boembolic, and infectious diseases were excluded by history, physical examination, cardiac catheterization, ...
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CXCL13 in idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension
... Results: CXCL13 was expressed in pulmonary vascular lesions and lymphocytes of patients with IPAH and inoperable CTEPH, respectively. Serum CXCL13 was elevated in patients compared to healthy controls [median, ...
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Pulmonary arterial hypertension.
... Sildenafil Sildenafil is an oral PDE-5 inhibitor that is available in Europe since 2005 for PAH patients in functional class II-III whereas this drug is licensed in Canada and the USA for patients in functional class II- ...