1. Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension
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Brian D. Hanna, Roberta L. Keller, Thomas J. Kulik, David N. Cornfield, J. Usha Raj, John Kinsella, Jeffrey A. Feinstein, Ian Adatia, Titus Kuehne, David L. Wessel, Robin R. Deterding, Stephen L. Archer, Bernard Thébaud, Kurt R. Stenmark, Robin H. Steinhorn, George B. Mallory, Mary P. Mullen, D. Dunbar Ivy, Jeffrey R. Fineman, Tilman Humpl, Mark K. Friedberg, Georg Hansmann, Wendy K. Chung, Robyn J. Barst, Erika B. Rosenzweig, Steven H. Abman, and Michael G. Earing
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Diagnostic Imaging ,Heart Defects, Congenital ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Hypertension, Pulmonary ,Ventilator-Induced Lung Injury ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Genetic Counseling ,Nitric Oxide ,Persistent Fetal Circulation Syndrome ,Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation ,Postoperative Complications ,Physiology (medical) ,medicine ,Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation ,Humans ,Lung transplantation ,Disease management (health) ,Child ,Intensive care medicine ,Lung ,business.industry ,Infant, Newborn ,Oxygen Inhalation Therapy ,Disease Management ,Infant ,Congenital diaphragmatic hernia ,Cardiovascular Agents ,medicine.disease ,Combined Modality Therapy ,Respiration, Artificial ,Pulmonary hypertension ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Child, Preschool ,Cardiovascular agent ,Hernias, Diaphragmatic, Congenital ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,business ,Lung Transplantation - Abstract
Pulmonary hypertension is associated with diverse cardiac, pulmonary, and systemic diseases in neonates, infants, and older children and contributes to significant morbidity and mortality. However, current approaches to caring for pediatric patients with pulmonary hypertension have been limited by the lack of consensus guidelines from experts in the field. In a joint effort from the American Heart Association and American Thoracic Society, a panel of experienced clinicians and clinician-scientists was assembled to review the current literature and to make recommendations on the diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment of pediatric pulmonary hypertension. This publication presents the results of extensive literature reviews, discussions, and formal scoring of recommendations for the care of children with pulmonary hypertension.
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- 2015
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