Clinical and hemodynamic correlates of pulmonary arterial stiffness in incident, untreated patients with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension.

CONCLUSIONS: In incident idiopathic PAH, PA stiffness was related to mPAP and heart rate, and this outperformed the potential influences of age and gender. Baseline PA stiffness did not independently predict outcome. The great dispersion of RC-time implied that PVR and PA stiffness were differently affected by the disease process. PMID: 29940163 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Chest - June 22, 2018 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Chemla D, Weatherald J, Lau EMT, Savale L, Boucly A, Attal P, Jaïs X, Parent F, Girerd B, Simonneau G, Montani D, Humbert M, Sitbon O, Hervé P Tags: Chest Source Type: research