J Heart Lung Transplant
September 2023
Background: We describe baseline characteristics, disease progression and mortality in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary disease patients as a function of mean pulmonary artery pressure (mPAP) according to new and previous definitions of pulmonary hypertension.
Methods: All patients diagnosed with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary disease between January, 2015 and December, 2019 were dichotomized according to initial mPAP: ≤ 20 mmHg ('normal') vs 21-24 mmHg ('mildly-elevated'). Baseline features were compared between the groups, and pairwise analysis performed to determine changes in clinical endpoints at 1-year, excluding those who underwent pulmonary endarterectomy or did not attend follow-up.
Anatomical and physiological changes in the right heart as a direct consequence of the upstream pressure overload characteristic of idiopathic pulmonary hypertension (IPAH) are likely to lead to conduction disease in these patients. However, the prevalence and clinical implications of atrioventricular conduction disease in IPAH patients are not well-characterized. In this observational cohort study, we show that conduction disease is far more prevalent in a cohort of 175 IPAH patients than a group of matched comparators (37.
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