Diagnosing post-capillary hypertension in patients with left heart disease: impact of new guidelines

ConclusionApplying the new ESC/ERS 2022 guideline definitions mildly increased the proportion of patients diagnosed with pc-PH (+  5.5%) but markedly increased Cpc-PH diagnoses. This effect was driven by the allocation of patients with formerly unclassifiable forms of post-capillary PH to the Cpc-PH subgroup and a significant shift of patients from the Ipc-PH to the Cpc-PH subgroup.Graphical abstractDistribution of post-capillary pulmonary hypertension (pc-PH) subgroups according to the European Society of Cardiology/European Respiratory Society (ESC/ERS) PH guidelines from 2015 and 2022 in N = 242 patients with left heart disease
Source: Clinical Research in Cardiology - Category: Cardiology Source Type: research