The Variation in the Diastolic Period with Interventricular Septal Displacement and Its Relation to the Right Ventricular Function in Pulmonary Hypertension: A Preliminary Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Study.

Background: Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is known to alter the biventricular shape and temporal phases of the cardiac cycle. The presence of interventricular septal (IVS) displacement has been associated with the severity of PH. There has been limited cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) data regarding the temporal parameters of the cardiac cycle in PH.

Clinical features and survival in Takayasu's arteritis-associated pulmonary hypertension: a nationwide study.

Aims: This study aimed to assess the clinical characteristics and long-term survival outcome in patients with Takayasu's arteritis-associated pulmonary hypertension (TA-PH).

Methods And Results: We conducted a nationally representative cohort study of TA-PH using data from the National Rare Diseases Registry System of China. Patients with pulmonary artery involvement who fulfilled the diagnostic criteria of Takayasu's arteritis and pulmonary hypertension were included.

Indication of the prognosis of pulmonary hypertension by using CMR function parameters.

Objective: This study aimed to compare the cardiac function among different sub-types of pulmonary hypertension (PH) and to explore the independent predictors of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE).

Methods: Eighty-seven PH patients diagnosed by right heart catheterization (RHC) were recruited. Patients underwent cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) and RHC examination within 2 weeks.

Characteristics and risk factors for pulmonary arterial hypertension associated with primary Sjögren's syndrome: 15 new cases from a single center.

Aim: This study aimed to retrospectively describe 15 new primary Sjögren's syndrome-pulmonary arterial hypertension (pSS-PAH) cases confirmed by right heart catheterization (RHC). Demographic and clinical characteristics were analyzed and risk factors for PAH in pSS were explored.

Method: We retrospectively described 15 new pSS-PAH cases confirmed by RHC referred to our institution between January 2013 and March 2018.