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Cor Pulmonale
1Division of Cardiology, University of California at San Francisco, 1180 Moffitt Hospital, 505 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143-0124, USA. demarco@medicine.ucsf.edu
Current Treatment Options in Cardiovascular Medicine
|November 30, 2000
Abstract:
The goals of treatment of cor pulmonale are 1) to reduce pulmonary arterial hypertension; 2) to optimize gas-exchange efficiency; and 3) to improve survival. These goals are achieved through long-term oxygen therapy, bronchodilator and vasodilator therapy, aggressive treatment of pulmonary infection, and anticoagulation. Selected patients may benefit from available surgical options.