Screening patients with scleroderma for pulmonary arterial hypertension and implications for other at-risk populations

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a progressive vasculopathy that is advanced by the time symptoms develop. As symptoms are nonspecific and the condition uncommon, continued progression toward end-stage disease occurs for an average of 2 years between symptom onset and diagnosis. There is nee...

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Main Authors: Johannes P. Schwaiger, Dinesh Khanna, J. Gerry Coghlan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Respiratory Society 2013-12-01
Series:European Respiratory Review
Online Access:http://err.ersjournals.com/content/22/130/515.full.pdf+html