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. 2019 Jan;15(1):262-273.
doi: 10.5114/aoms.2017.68938. Epub 2017 Jul 17.

Pulmonary hypertension in left heart disease

Pratishtha Mehra  1 , Vimal Mehta  1 , Rishi Sukhija  2 , Anjan K Sinha  3 , Mohit Gupta  1 , M P Girish  1 , Wilbert S Aronow  4
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Pulmonary hypertension in left heart disease

Pratishtha Mehra et al. Arch Med Sci. 2019 Jan.
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Figure 1
Figure 1
Hemodynamic definition of pulmonary hypertension TPG = mPAP – mPCWP, DPG = dPAP – mPCWP, DPG – diastolic pulmonary gradient, dPAP – diastolic pulmonary artery pressure, TPG – transpulmonary gradient, mPAP – mean pulmonary arterial pressure, mPCWP – mean pulmonary capillary wedge pressure, PH – pulmonary hypertension, PVR – pulmonary vascular resistance, WU – Wood units.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Pathophysiology of pulmonary hypertension and right heart failure in left heart disease
Figure 3
Figure 3
Echocardiography of patient in Fig. 3 of rheumatic heart disease with severe mitral stenosis in normal sinus rhythm showing: A – thickened mitral leaflets with diastolic doming of anterior mitral leaflet with marked left atrial dilatation, B – mitral valve in short-axis in diastole showing fused medial and lateral commissures with area of 0.78 cm2 by planimetry, C – measurement of mean transmitral gradient of 11 mm Hg, D – dilated left atrium, right atrium and right ventricle, E – CW Doppler of TR jet showing peak velocity of 5.1 m/s with calculated RVSP of 104 mm Hg plus right atrial pressure, F – end-diastolic velocity of pulmonary regurgitation signal of 3 m/s with calculated pulmonary artery end diastolic pressure of 36 mm Hg plus right atrial pressure
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