Vital capacity and valvular dysfunction could serve as non-invasive predictors to screen for exercise pulmonary hypertension in the elderly based on a new diagnostic score
Introduction: Exercise pulmonary hypertension (exPH) has been defined as total pulmonary resistance (TPR) >3 mm Hg/L/min and mean pulmonary artery pressure (mPAP) >30 mm Hg, albeit with a considerable risk of false positives in elderly patients with lower cardiac output during exercise...
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| Language: | English |
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Tabriz University of Medical Sciences
2021-02-01
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| Series: | Journal of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Research |
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| Online Access: | https://jcvtr.tbzmed.ac.ir/PDF/jcvtr-13-68.pdf |