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Pulmonary hypertension: hemodynamic diagnosis and management
Kanu Chatterjee1, Teresa De Marco, Joseph S Alpert
1Chatterjee Center for Cardiac Research, University of California, San Francisco 94143, USA. chatterj@medicine.ucsf.edu
Archives of Internal Medicine
|September 17, 2002
Abstract:
Hemodynamic classification of pulmonary hypertension relates to the hemodynamic mechanisms of pulmonary arterial hypertension, such as abnormalities of pulmonary blood flow, pulmonary vascular resistance, and pulmonary venous pressures. The therapeutic approaches can be directed to the hemodynamic mechanisms of pulmonary hypertension.