[PDF] Top 20 Clinical profile and outcome of paediatric pulmonary artery hypertension patients

... systolic pulmonary artery pressure in the cases of PAH was ...70%, pulmonary regurgitation in 40%, and thickened IVS in ...51 patients with PPH from 1992 to 1997. The majority of ... See full document

... good outcome) and anaplstic and LCA( poor outcome), these were combined to form three groups- group 1 consisted of classic histology as well as medullomyoblastoma, group 2 consisted of desmoplastic ... See full document

... Diagnosis of tuberculosis is established by demonstrating acid-fast bacilli (AFB) on microscopic examination of at least two sputum smears through Ziel Nielson technique. Other staining methods include rhodamine- ... See full document

... these patients, treatment of choice is surgical repair of the heart defect in order to normalise pulmonary arterial pressure, rather than treatment with PAH ...and pulmonary hypertension ... See full document

... ment. Baseline demographic characteristics, medical his- tories (including World Health Organization function classi- fication [WHO-FC], PAH-spe- cific medications, and the presence of other comorbidi- ties) and ... See full document

... selected patients with CTEPH, current management strategies aim to prolong survival, alleviate symptoms and improve ...the clinical and trial environments would be highly ...patient-reported outcome ... See full document

... real-world clinical experience, supplement data from randomised clinical trials and may be useful in validating the criteria for identifying centres of ...of patients with CTEPH and difficulty of ... See full document

... the paediatric pulmonary hypertension setting with a significant clinical end-point for evidence of ...in paediatric patients include echocardiographic parameters such as the ... See full document

... poor outcome of PAH patients who develop pulmonary artery dissection, identification of patients at risk for this complication may be of interest in clinical ...practice. ... See full document

... favorable clinical outcomes after PADN are supported by objective improvements in PAPs, exercise capacity, and clinical ...of patients precluded detailed analysis of whether there were differential ... See full document

... increasing pulmonary vascular resistance equals systemic resistance, the left-to-right shunt becomes bi-direc- tional, and once pulmonary vascular resistance exceeds systemic resistance, shunt reversal and ... See full document

... in infants with persistent pulmonary hypertension is associated with poorer neurodevelopmental outcome.. Pediatrics 1988;81:657-661; hyperventilation, persis- tent pulmonary hypertension[r] ... See full document

... 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 ... See full document

... these patients arrived late with multiple complications leading to mortality despite the best available ...of patients. A trained paediatric intensivist may help by working closely with general ... See full document

... of clinical worsening of PAH, defined as ...in patients tak- ing macitentan 10 mg/day and 30% in patients on 3 mg/day when compared to placebo (hazard ratio [HR] ... See full document

... primary outcome was change in 6MWD from baseline to 16 ...to clinical worsening, Borg dyspnea score, and AEs from baseline to 16 ...261 patients were randomized to either riociguat (n = 173) or ... See full document

... Pulmonary artery dissection is extremely rare but it is a really life-threatening condition when it ...Most patients die suddenly from major bleeding or tamponade caused by direct rupture into ... See full document

... unilateral pulmonary stenosis, and performing full corrective surgery in ...unilateral pulmonary hypertension from migration of pulmonary artery band from the main to the right ... See full document

... in patients with ...the clinical and metabolic variables of PH patients and those without PH showed that patients with PH had significantly higher levels of PAP, PTH, phosphorous, P x Ca ... See full document

... adult patients aged be- tween 18 and 65 years old and were available in English, Spanish and/or ...topics: clinical charac- teristics (etiology, time from onset of symptoms to diagnosis, hemodynamic ... See full document