Sergey S Gutor, Bradley W Richmond, Vineet Agrawal, Evan L Brittain, Ciara M Shaver, Pingsheng Wu, Taryn K Boyle, Ravinder R Mallugari, Katrina Douglas, Robert N Piana, Joyce E Johnson, Robert F Miller, John H Newman, Timothy S Blackwell, Vasiliy V Polosukhin
Exertional dyspnea has been documented in U.S. military personnel after deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan. We studied whether continued exertional dyspnea in this patient population is associated with pulmonary vascular disease (PVD). We performed detailed histomorphometry of pulmonary vasculature in 52 Veterans with biopsy-proven post-deployment respiratory syndrome (PDRS) and then recruited five of these same Veterans with continued exertional dyspnea to undergo a follow-up clinical evaluation, including symptom questionnaire, pulmonary function testing, surface echocardiography, and right heart catheterization (RHC)...
April 9, 2024: Cardiovascular Pathology: the Official Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Pathology