Peripheral microangiopathy in precapillary pulmonary hypertension: a nailfold video capillaroscopy prospective study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although pulmonary vascular bed has been the main subject of research for many years in pulmonary hypertension (PH), interest has recently started to divert towards the possibility of a co-existing peripheral microangiopathy. The aim of the current study was to investigate the presence of nailfold video-capillaroscopic (NVC) structural changes in patients with precapillary PH and to identify possible associations of NVC measurements with markers of disease severity.

Methods

Α prospective case-control study was performed in 28 consecutive patients with precapillary PH [14 with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (IPAH) and 14 with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH)] and 30 healthy controls. NVC quantitative and qualitative parameters were

SUBMITTER: Arvanitaki A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7819216 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature