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SUBMITTER: Hussain N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4860544 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hussain Nehal N Charalampopoulos Athanasios A Ramjug Sheila S Condliffe Robin R Elliot Charlie A CA O'Toole Laurence L Swift Andrew A Kiely David G DG
Pulmonary circulation 20160301 1
The most common cause of pulmonary hypertension (PH) due to left heart disease (LHD) was previously rheumatic mitral valve disease. However, with the disappearance of rheumatic fever and an aging population, nonvalvular LHD is now the most common cause of group 2 PH in the developed world. In this review, we examine the challenge of investigating patients who have PH and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HF-pEF), where differentiating between pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) a ...[more]