Pulmonary Arterial Capacitance Predicts Cardiac Events in Pulmonary Hypertension Due to Left Heart Disease.

Although pulmonary hypertension due to left heart disease (LHD-PH) accounts for the largest proportion of pulmonary hypertension, few reports on the epidemiological analysis of LHD-PH exist. Recently, pulmonary arterial capacitance (PAC) has attracted attention as a possible factor of right ventricu...

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Main Authors: Koichi Sugimoto, Akiomi Yoshihisa, Kazuhiko Nakazato, Yuichiro Jin, Satoshi Suzuki, Tetsuro Yokokawa, Tomofumi Misaka, Takayoshi Yamaki, Hiroyuki Kunii, Hitoshi Suzuki, Shu-Ichi Saitoh, Yasuchika Takeishi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5119730?pdf=render