Clinical Determinants and Prognostic Implications of Right Ventricular Dysfunction in Pulmonary Hypertension Caused by Chronic Lung Disease

Clinical Determinants and Prognostic Implications of Right Ventricular Dysfunction in Pulmonary Hypertension Caused by Chronic Lung Disease

Background Patients with pulmonary hypertension caused by chronic lung disease (Group 3 PH) have disproportionate right ventricle (RV) dysfunction, but the correlates and clinical implications of RV dysfunction in Group 3 PH are not well defined. Methods and Results We performed a cohort study of 14...

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Main Authors: Kurt W. Prins, Lauren Rose, Stephen L. Archer, Marc Pritzker, E. Kenneth Weir, Matthew D. Olson, Thenappan Thenappan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2019-01-01
Series:Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
Subjects:
pulmonary hypertension
right ventricle
right ventricle echocardiography
right ventricular dysfunction
sex‐specific
Online Access:https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.118.011464

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