The impact of the new World Symposium on Pulmonary Hypertension definition of pulmonary hypertension on the prevalence of pre-capillary pulmonary hypertension


Sinan U. Y., Cetinarslan O., Ozkan A. A., Ersanli M. K., Kucukoglu M. S.

TURK KARDIYOLOJI DERNEGI ARSIVI-ARCHIVES OF THE TURKISH SOCIETY OF CARDIOLOGY, cilt.47, sa.7, ss.594-598, 2019 (ESCI) identifier identifier identifier

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Objective: Since the first World Symposium on Pulmonary Hypertension (WSPH; Geneva, 1973), pulmonary hypertension (PH) has been defined as a mean pulmonary artery pressure (mPAP) >= 25 mm Hg measured at right heart catheterization (RHC) while at rest in the supine position. At the 6th WSPH congress (Nice, 2018), a new proposal was presented defining pre-capillary PH as mPAP >20 mm Hg, with pulmonary arterial wedge pressure (PAWP) <15 mm Hg, and pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) >3 WU. The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of the new definition of PH on the number of pre-capillary PH patients.