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The right ventricle in pulmonary hypertension.
- Source :
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Coronary artery disease [Coron Artery Dis] 2005 Feb; Vol. 16 (1), pp. 13-8. - Publication Year :
- 2005
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Abstract
- Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a term used to classify a variety of conditions that share in common an injury to the pulmonary vasculature that produces elevations in pulmonary arterial pressure. However, it is the integrity of right ventricular function, rather than the degree of vascular injury, that is the major determinant of symptoms and survival in PAH. The article will review the normal structure and function of the right ventricle and summarize the impact of PAH and its treatments on right ventricular function.
- Subjects :
- Bosentan
Cardiac Output
Chronic Disease
Drug Therapy, Combination
Epoprostenol therapeutic use
Female
Heart Failure physiopathology
Heart Function Tests
Heart Ventricles anatomy & histology
Humans
Hypertension, Pulmonary complications
Male
Prognosis
Risk Assessment
Severity of Illness Index
Sulfonamides therapeutic use
Survival Rate
Treatment Outcome
Ventricular Dysfunction, Right complications
Ventricular Dysfunction, Right drug therapy
Ventricular Function
Heart Failure etiology
Hypertension, Pulmonary diagnosis
Stroke Volume physiology
Ventricular Dysfunction, Right diagnosis
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0954-6928
- Volume :
- 16
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Coronary artery disease
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 15654194
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00019501-200502000-00003