To optimise treatment of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), the 2015 European Society of Cardiology/European Respiratory Society guidelines recommend using risk stratification, with the aim of patients achieving low-risk status. Previous analyses of registries made progress in using risk stratification approaches, however, the focus is often on patients with a low-risk prognosis, whereas most PAH patients are in intermediate-risk or high-risk categories. Using only six parameters with high prognostic relevance, we aimed to demonstrate a pragmatic approach to individual patient risk assessment to discriminate between patients at low risk, intermediate risk and high risk of death.
A pragmatic approach to risk assessment in pulmonary arterial hypertension using the 2015 European Society of Cardiology/European Respiratory Society guidelines / Dardi, Fabio; Manes, Alessandra; Guarino, Daniele; Zuffa, Elisa; De Lorenzis, Alessandro; Magnani, Ilenia; Rotunno, Mariangela; Ballerini, Alberto; Lo Russo, Gerardo Vito; Nardi, Elena; Galiè, Nazzareno; Palazzini, Massimiliano. - In: OPEN HEART. - ISSN 2053-3624. - ELETTRONICO. - 8:2(2021), pp. e001725.e001725-e001725.e001725. [10.1136/openhrt-2021-001725]
A pragmatic approach to risk assessment in pulmonary arterial hypertension using the 2015 European Society of Cardiology/European Respiratory Society guidelines
Dardi, Fabio
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;Manes, Alessandra;Guarino, Daniele;Zuffa, Elisa;De Lorenzis, Alessandro;Magnani, Ilenia;Rotunno, Mariangela;Ballerini, Alberto;Lo Russo, Gerardo Vito;Nardi, Elena;Galiè, Nazzareno;Palazzini, Massimiliano
2021
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To optimise treatment of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), the 2015 European Society of Cardiology/European Respiratory Society guidelines recommend using risk stratification, with the aim of patients achieving low-risk status. Previous analyses of registries made progress in using risk stratification approaches, however, the focus is often on patients with a low-risk prognosis, whereas most PAH patients are in intermediate-risk or high-risk categories. Using only six parameters with high prognostic relevance, we aimed to demonstrate a pragmatic approach to individual patient risk assessment to discriminate between patients at low risk, intermediate risk and high risk of death.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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