Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is the most characteristic group of pulmonary hypertensive states. Among other conditions, PAH includes the idiopathic type and forms associated with connective tissue diseases (CTDs), particularly systemic sclerosis, CREST syndrome, and mixed connective tissue disease...
What Is Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension? Pulmonary hypertension is a life-threatening condition that gets worse over time, but treatments can help your symptoms so you can live better with the disease. It may take some planning, but plenty of people who have it find ways to do all the things...
which also is called pulmonary arterial hypertension, has been reclassified and is now based on the main underlying cause, characteristics, and treatments of pulmonary hypertension. These terms were updated in 2013. This system classifies the condition based on five classes. ...
Primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH) is a rare disease characterized by elevated pulmonary artery pressure with no apparent cause. PPH is also termed precapillary pulmonary hypertension or, more recently, idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (IPAH)
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a chronic and progressive disease leading to right heart failure and ultimately death if untreated. The first classification of PH was proposed in 1973. In 2008, the fourth World Symposium on PH held in Dana Point
• Primary pulmonary arterial hypertension;• Pulmonary vasculitides;• Autoimmune diseases;• Chemical/toxic damage; • Increased resistance to pulmonary venous drainage. Increased resistance to pulmonary venous drainage:• Elevated left ventricular diastolic pressure;• Elevated left atrial pressure...
1. Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) 1.1. Idiopathic 1.2. Heritable 1.2.1. BMPR2 mutation 1.2.2. Other mutations 1.3. Drugs and toxins induced 1.4. Associated with: 1.4.1. Connective tissue disease 1.4.2. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection ...
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is classified into 5 clinical subgroups: pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), PH due to left-sided heart disease, PH due to chronic lung disease, chronic thromboembolic PH (CTEPH), and PH with an unclear and/or multifactorial mechanisms. A range of underlying ...
The AJMC® Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension compendium is a comprehensive resource for clinical news and expert insights for the progressive disorder, which is characterized by high blood pressure in the arteries that go from the heart to the lungs.
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