Kai Helge Schmidt, Olympia Bikou, Rüdiger Blindt, Leonhard Bruch, Ralf Felgendreher, Wolfgang Hohenforst-Schmidt, Stephan Holt, Dennis Ladage, Elena Pfeuffer-Jovic, Andreas Rieth, Alexander Schmeisser, Katharina Schnitzler, Stefan Stadler, Regina Steringer-Mascherbauer, Athiththan Yogeswaran, Wolfgang M Kuebler
Pulmonary hypertension associated with left heart disease (PH-LHD) corresponds to group two of pulmonary hypertension according to clinical classification. Haemodynamically, this group includes isolated post-capillary pulmonary hypertension (IpcPH) and combined post- and pre-capillary pulmonary hypertension (CpcPH). PH-LHD is defined by an mPAP > 20 mmHg and a PAWP > 15 mmHg, pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) with a cut-off value of 2 Wood Units (WU) is used to differentiate between IpcPH and CpcPH...
November 2023: Pneumologie