Portopulmonary hypertension (PoPH) is a vascular complication of portal hypertension. This study aims to identify the prevalence and analyzing the clinical and hemodynamic features of patients with PoPH from a cohort of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) patients. A retrospective transversal descriptive and analytical study. Patients with PoPH taken from a PAH cohort. We compare with those reported in the literature. We found prevalence of 6.1% of 244 consecutive patients with PAH, 11 females and 4 males. The mean age was 62 years and the main etiology of portal hypertension was primary biliary cirrhosis. Statistical differences were found in mean pulmonary arterial pressure, pulmonary vascular resistance, right atrial pressure; we found levels lower than reported. We found significant differences in clinical and hemodynamic characteristics such as older age and hemodynamic parameters of less severity in the group of patients analyzed compared with reported data.

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