Experience with exercise right heart catheterization in the diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension: a retrospective study

Conclusion In this real-life experience in symptomatic patients undergoing exercise RHC for suspected PH, we found that exercise RHC is safe. The facts that the vast majority of patients with mPAP-values between 20 and 24.9 mmHg at rest had exercise PH and the older age of patients with resting PH may indicate that exercise PH is a precursor of resting PH. Whether earlier treatment start in patients with exercise PH would stabilize the disease should be addressed in future studies.

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Source: Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine - October 15, 2014 Category: Respiratory Medicine Source Type: research