Open AccessDefinition and Management of Segmental Pulmonary Hypertension
Author(s) -
Dimopoulos Konstantinos,
Diller GerhardPaul,
Opotowsky Alexander R.,
D'Alto Michele,
Gu Hong,
Giannakoulas George,
Budts Werner,
Broberg Craig S.,
Veldtman Gruschen,
Swan Lorna,
Beghetti Maurice,
Gatzoulis Michael A.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of the american heart association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.494
H-Index - 85
ISSN - 2047-9980
DOI - 10.1161/jaha.118.008587
Subject(s) - medicine , pulmonary hypertension , general hospital , classics , general surgery , history
The World Pulmonary Hypertension Symposium in 2013 (Nice, France) introduced a new entity in the classification for pediatric and adult patients called “segmental pulmonary hypertension (PH).”[1][1] Segmental PH was described in the international 2015 guidelines as PH “observed in discrete