Characteristics of patients meeting the new definition of pre-capillary pulmonary hypertension (Nice 2018) in a single Japanese pulmonary hypertension center

Characteristics of patients meeting the new definition of pre-capillary pulmonary hypertension (Nice 2018) in a single Japanese pulmonary hypertension center

Abstract Background The 6th World Symposium on Pulmonary Hypertension (Nice 2018) proposed a new definition of pre-capillary pulmonary hypertension (PH) as a condition with mean pulmonary artery pressure (mPAP) > 20 mmHg, pulmonary artery wedge pressure  ≤ 15 mmHg, and pulmonary vascular resistan...

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Main Authors: Keiko Yamamoto, Nobuhiro Tanabe, Yukiko Takahashi, Akira Naito, Ayumi Sekine, Rika Suda, Takayuki Jujo Sanada, Toshihiko Sugiura, Ayako Shigeta, Seiichiro Sakao, Koichiro Tatsumi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-08-01
Series:BMC Pulmonary Medicine
Subjects:
Pulmonary arterial hypertension
World Symposium on Pulmonary Hypertension (WSPH) 2018
Pulmonary artery wedge pressure
Pulmonary vascular resistance
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12890-021-01623-2

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s12890-021-01623-2

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