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The role of imaging in pulmonary hypertension.
Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy 2021 June
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a debilitating and potentially life threatening condition in which increased pressure in the pulmonary arteries may result from a variety of pathological processes. These can include disease primarily involving the pulmonary vasculature, but more commonly PH may result from left-sided heart disease, including valvular heart disease. Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) is an important disease to identify because it may be amenable to surgical pulmonary artery endarterectomy or balloon pulmonary angioplasty. Parenchymal lung diseases are also widespread in the community. Any of these disease processes may result in adverse remodeling of the right ventricle and progressive right heart (RH) failure as a common final pathway. Because of the breadth of pathological processes which cause PH, multiple imaging modalities play vital roles in ensuring accurate diagnosis and classification, which will lead to application of the most appropriate therapy. Multimodality imaging may also provide important prognostic information and has a role in the assessment of response to therapies which ultimately dictate clinical outcomes. This review provides an overview of the wide variety of established imaging techniques currently in use, but also examines many of the novel imaging techniques which may be increasingly utilized in the future to guide comprehensive care of patients with PH.
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