Idiopathic Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension phenotypes determined by cluster analysis from the COMPERA registry

The term idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (IPAH) is used to categorize patients with pre-capillary pulmonary hypertension of unknown origin. There is considerable variability in the clinical presentation of these patients.Using data from the COMPERA registry, we performed a cluster analysis of 841 patients with IPAH based on age, sex, lung diffusion capacity for carbon monoxide (DLCO,

Source: The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation - September 28, 2020 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Marius M. Hoeper, Christine Pausch, Ekkehard Gr ünig, Hans Klose, Gerd Staehler, Doerte Huscher, David Pittrow, Karen M. Olsson, Carmine Dario Vizza, Henning Gall, Nicola Benjamin, Oliver Distler, Christian Opitz, J. Simon R. Gibbs, Marion Delcroix, H. A Tags: Original Clinical Science Source Type: research